On Empowerment Through Declarative Programming

By John Nelson in Programming on

Lately I've been pairing with my good friend, Caleb Gossler, 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. We have been taking…

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…