Starving with a Full Stomach

The story is told of a herd of deer who became trapped one winter in a steep ravine. With much of the winter…

Are Your Unit Tests Correct?

Most people, myself included, talk about unit tests as a way to “assure correctness”. But rarely do we…

Reduce Your Arrays!

Reducing is one of those things that took me forever to understand. Honestly, I still feel less than comfortable with reduce than I want to feel. You know that you really know a tool when you feel super comfortable reaching for it in a lot of situations.

Constraints — Why Less is More in Programming Languages

Purpose-Driven For Loop Replacement

“When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” One of the common things that happens…

The Key Concept of RxJS Error Handling

One of the things I found most annoying about learning RxJS was the error handling. There were examples of “standard” error handling methods, and they made essentially zero sense to me. I couldn’t understand how to use them for what I actually wanted.

Shame vs Guilt

I grew up in the ’80s in a predominantly white region of the country and in a house where racist jokes were commonly told by my parents…