9 posts tagged: Discussion
Why I Built a Static Site in Clojure
At a summer barbecue, a friend asked if I could build a website for his new restaurant. But what he didn't know was that I haven't built a static site in nearly a decade. However I couldn't let him spend thousands of dollars on a cookie cutter website designed by a firm that knew nothing about his restaurant.
Your Job Isn't Writing Code
Every line of code you write is a liability. That line of code you just wrote adds complexity to your code base, gives you more nuances to remember, it might even be a bug. If code is so expensive and dangerous. What can you do? After all, you are a developer.
How Lodash Worked Itself Out of a Job
I really loved lodash. It brough the joy of compact functional code to JavaScript. Especially 6 years ago when I first embraced it. It was a wonderful library. Back then, there was no ES6, no Babel, and terrible browser incompatabilities ran rampant. Lodash along with jQuery were the saving light of that time.