Feb 21, 2022Code hyper-specific solutions to problemsHave you ever encountered a programming problem that you couldn’t find an elegant general solution for, no matter how hard you tried? I’ve seen this often happen, especially when working on new codebases. You get stuck with the programmer version of “writer’s block”. That elegant architecture that you can ideally plug…Software Development3 min readSoftware Development3 min read
Published in Razroo·Feb 3, 2020Member-onlyRxJS Pitfalls and how to Avoid ThemRxJS is a powerful library to use. With that power, however, comes a lot of complexity. And with that complexity comes a lot of ways to get into trouble. In this article, I’ll take you through some common pitfalls that you’ll need to look out for when using RxJS, and…Angular9 min readAngular9 min read
Nov 27, 2019Member-onlyDemystifying RxJS, Part III: Building our own SchedulersThis is the third and final part in a series called Demystifying RxJS, where we build our own miniature version of RxJS in order to gain a deep fundamental understanding of how it works. If you’ve read Part II, you can continue where you left off. Or, you start here…JavaScript6 min readJavaScript6 min read
Nov 27, 2019Member-onlyDemystifying RxJS, Part II: Building our own operatorsThis is the second part in a series called Demystifying RxJS, where we build our own miniature version of RxJS in order to gain a deep fundamental understanding of how it works. If you’ve read Part I, you can continue where you left off. Or, you can fork the CodeSandbox…JavaScript13 min readJavaScript13 min read
Nov 27, 2019Member-onlyDemystifying RxJS, Part I: Building our own ObservablesThis is the first part in a series called Demystifying RxJS, where we build our own miniature version of RxJS in order to gain a deep fundamental understanding of how it works. You can follow along using this starter template on CodeSandbox, or check out this CodeSandbox containing the complete…JavaScript7 min readJavaScript7 min read
Nov 27, 2019Demystifying RxJS by building it ourselvesIf you’ve ever worked on an Angular app before, or you’re a frontend developer that’s interested in Reactive Programming, you’ve most likely worked with RxJS at some point. It is an extremely powerful library, capable of creating simple, elegant abstractions over otherwise tricky problems. For example, using RxJS you can…JavaScript5 min readJavaScript5 min read
Published in The Startup·Jul 1, 2019Member-onlyDigitize your standups!Standups are an essential tool on software teams for exchanging information and ensuring alignment. Having used standups — along with other agile principles and practices — at both Refinery29 and Google to ship successful software projects across distributed, cross-functional teams, I believe they are a cornerstone of successful product development. …Agile7 min readAgile7 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Jul 17, 2018Productive research with custom IPython extensions, part 2: BigQuery magicAfter completing work on my custom IPython auto-loader extension for importing data science libraries, I tried to save myself even more time. I wanted to access data in my data warehouse directly by querying BigQuery from IPython. This blog post describes my approach to that problem. …Big Data3 min readBig Data3 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Jul 13, 2018Productive research with custom IPython extensionsOver the past year, I’ve been getting more and more into data science and machine learning. While doing so, I noticed that I had to perform the same repetitive tasks in IPython and Jupyter notebook every time I wanted to conduct some research, pulling me out of flow. To address…Data Science3 min readData Science3 min read
Jun 23, 2017So Long Material Components for the web!For the last 1.5 years or so, I’ve had the honor and the privilege of serving as the Technical Lead for Material Components for the Web, fondly known as MDC-Web. With bittersweet feelings, I’d like to let everyone know that today is my last day on the MDC-Web team. …Material Design2 min readMaterial Design2 min read
