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Alright, I know that the title of this post already contains some technical jargon that's potentially intimidating.

Another fundamental of functional programming is a solid understanding of pure functions.

Making sense of functional programming requires a solid understanding of a few fundamental concepts.

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A few months back, Jason Lengstorf and I started a gathering for people in Portland to get together, relax, and get to know one another.

If you look just above the title of this post, you should see a beard icon and the phrase ${strokes} bestowed.

I made mention in my "What Are State Machines?"

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Defining and managing state in software is a difficult challenge.

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Before I dive into this idea of mine, I want to tell you, I've been scared to write it out.

In my last blog post, I shared with you several tips on how to make that hunt go better for you.

If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen this tweet go out into the universe.

Friday night, after React Rally 2018, I led a group of intrepid devs to Beer Bar in downtown Salt Lake City for what I like to call "the unofficial after after party".

The events of this story took place several months ago, but let me tell you, they are as vivid to me now as they were then.

I am often asked to share the story of how I went from being a Christian pastor to a software engineer.

I'm going to start this post with what will appear to be a tangent.

Recently at an interview I was asked to write a custom component from scratch with vanilla JavaScript.

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My most recent work project was an interesting challenge.

This morning I released ShevyJS into the wild.

This won't be a very long, nor deep, post.

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If you're using Redux with React, you are probably familiar with the concept of container and presentational components.

My current project has a strange requirement.

I am starting a randomly occurring series called "Head Scratchers."

I am currently working on a React/Redux universally rendered application at work.

I want to share with you a little trick I've been using lately with stateless functional components in React.

At work, I am building a JavaScript application with universal rendering.

Redux is a predictable state container for JavaScript apps.

In previous posts I've mentioned my vehement dislike of purposefully opening links in a new tab.

I've written before about my not so mild hatred for the request to open all external links in new tabs.

Recently, I worked my way through the D3 Intro Course taught by Ian Johnson over at Front End Masters and have been practicing what I've learned ever since.

I write about Bash so often you might start to think it's all I do.

If you're like me, you like to find patterns in your work and turn them into aliases and shortcuts in the terminal.

If you're like me, you're constantly using the command line to make a directory and then immediately change to that directory.

Like most developers, I'm always looking for ways to increase my efficiency.

I'm often asked to make small, almost trivial changes to our clients' websites.