On Empowerment Through Declarative Programming

By John Nelson in Programming on

Lately I've been pairing with my good friend, Caleb Gossler [http://www.calebgossler.com/], on some atypical Node.js at work. To be honest it's not the most interesting work to talk about. Rather than go into the bland details I thought I'd extrapolate the valuable part of the experience.…

Silly Mistakes

By John Nelson in Meta on

Have you ever been in the middle of writing a function, and a bright idea hit you like a piano out of mid air, or suddenly interrupted by a flash mob? Me, too. What were we talking about? This is among the most universal experiences in programming: distractions that lead…