I'm... not sure how I got here, but this is what I spent my evening doing. I have been using partial in python on occasion, but it's kind of annoying to have to be so explicit with it any time you want to use partial application.def curry(fn): arity…
I keep my emacs configuration in my personal GitHub account, but choose to use a separate account for my full time job. It's tricky when you want to use SSH for both, but it's definitely doable. Here's my quick notes on how to manage it.Create a file: ~/.ssh/configWith…
I once worked in a bit of dream scenario. My job was simple: render a web page. Lots of times. Generally this involved background processing and caching, which I found to be fun and full of surprises. The evolution of this solution is an intesting story, to be sure, and…
This has been a busy year! My last job gave me a crash course in management, which was a huge opportunity to learn about working with people and how to help grow developer culture. With all of the new things going on, I kind of lost track of what truly…
Friday marks my last day working at nbcnews.com. I've gotten do a lot of great things, from throwing down with RavenDB to hopping on some serious Node.js bandwagons. I've even migrated to a more linux based ecosystem, which has been great. Over the past four years I've worked…
Most of what I want to write about today can be found in Chapter 3 of An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus, by Greg Michaelson. However, I'll be working through it with JavaScript to try and give it some tangible application. Disclaimer: this isn't really a post for…
I've been on a bit of a functional programming kick lately, and it's all starting to click. I came across some vector math for character movement in games, and it seemed like a nice exercise to try out with a purely functional approach. Just because it's a commonly known language,…
Just a quick post about a solution I thought up to finding missing handlebars views in my project. grep -oEr "{{> [-a-zA-Z0-9\/_]+" ./app/server/views | grep -oE "[-a-zA-Z0-9\/_]+$" | sort | uniq | while read -r line ; do if [ ! -e "./app/server/views/partials/$line.hbs" ] then…
Earlier this year I switched to a (mostly) monochromatic theme for coding in emacs. It has been a great experiment so far. I even tried switching back to a colorful theme the other day, and it was so distracting that I ended up switching back. Even though I'm not using…
I wanted to try an experiment around improving caching performance in Node.js while using redis. One of the ideas I came up with was to build a leveled cache that can work primarily with something in-memory (like eidetic), falling back to a secondary cache like redis. I really wanted…