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My publisher recently unveiled the fourth edition of Python Object-oriented Programming.

Continuing my ongoing series on the Rescript programming language, I discovered I needed to refactor my backend to better suit the graphql queries the frontend has to make to it.

Rescript is a delightful programming language pulling in the best elements of Javascript and functional languages without the worst bits of either.

Instead of writing a new article on Rescript this weekend, I ended up writing an entire project in Rescript!

Now that our RxDB models are complete, we can hook it up to a react app for a complete offline experience.

Extending the JS bindings I’ve modelled in previous articles, in this add bindings for subscribing to queries, and hook those up to Application state.

In an earlier article, I started modelling RxDB calls from rescript with the intent of building an offline-enabled Rescript app.

I wanted to explore progressive web apps, and I took the opportunity to learn about binding Rescript to existing Javascript libraries.

As part of my ongoing experiments with Rescript, I decided to implement a Node app with express.

In this article, we complete the Recipes single page app we’ve been developing in Rescript by styling it with Emotion, a popular framework for styling in React systems.

Continuing my series on Rescript, this article covers React forms with managed state and dispatching useReducer actions when our state changes.

Continuing my series on Rescript, I add a couple React components to the ongoing app I’ve been developing.

When I first encountered the Internet my peers and I thought it was great fun to share our dev setups.

As a functional language, Rescript maps beautifully to redux-style state management, without all the boilerplate

Continuing my journey to learn Rescript using a real-world react-app.

I recently discovered the Rescript programming language and am really excited about it.

2020 has been one of my best years ever.

A friend suffering from perfectionism has caused difficult interference in their life.

I am trying a new blogging format hoping that I can post interesting content more often.

(contains amazon affiliate links) I have had repetitive stress injury (RSI) flareups on and off for many years.

I’ve been wondering what to do with this blog for a while.

I am not a productivity coach.

I’m about halfway into writing my first novel.

Parts in this series An Order to Learn to Program, Part 1 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 2 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 3 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 4 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 5 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 6 Part 6: Local

Python 3 Object-oriented Programming 3rd Edition My publisher unveiled the third edition of Python 3 Object-oriented Programming today!

One of many things I love about Python is how whitespace is an integral part of the language.

Parts in this series An Order to Learn to Program, Part 1 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 2 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 3 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 4 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 5 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 6 Part 5: Begi…

The venerable RSA public key encryption algorithm is very elegant.

Parts in this series An Order to Learn to Program, Part 1 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 2 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 3 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 4 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 5 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 6 Part 4: Bina…

Whenever I start a new hobby web project, I just want to jump in and start coding.

Parts in this series An Order to Learn to Program, Part 1 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 2 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 3 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 4 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 5 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 6 Part 3: SQL…

My wife and I both have a tendency to leave the garage door open.

I really appreciate Python’s pathlib module for managing filesystem stuff.

Parts in this series An Order to Learn to Program, Part 1 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 2 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 3 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 4 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 5 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 6 Part 2: HTML…

I accidentally started working on a new personal project for budgeting that I think others might be interested in.

Parts in this series An Order to Learn to Program, Part 1 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 2 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 3 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 4 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 5 An Order to Learn to Program, Part 6 Part 1 Learn…

Back in 2012, I wrote a book called Hacking Happy.

Hi there, I’m Dusty.

My most popular series is my ongoing list of Rescript articles.

I’ve written a few books over the years: LazyVim for Ambitious Developers Introduces the excellent LazyVim distribution to developers new to modal editing.

Dusty Phillips is a Canadian software developer and author.