Goldblog

Speeding up and simplifying the transpiler configuration for a Jest project with Speedy Web Compiler (SWC).

I'm quitting my job to become a full time open source maintainer

Applying learnings about how humans perceive forces of nature to how we understand code and organizations.

Explaining why using useEffect to initialize values is dangerous.

A mantra for constantly learning to keep myself writing at my best.

Glorious hardcoding of a better error message if someone forgets to include the 'dom' lib option.

How misbalanced or poorly positioned teams restrict their developers in both the short and long term.

Just for fun, what if we crafted a board game purely within TypeScript's logical type system?

Improving the first error message emitted for invalid variable identifiers.

Adding a new comment directive to the TypeScript compiler.

How to use the energy of new employees to keep documentation up-to-date and useful.

Now that TSLint is being deprecated, let's look at the history of JavaScript and TypeScript linting.

Maintaining TSLint was a wonderful mixed bag of shenanigans.

Now that TSLint is being deprecated, let's look at how tslint-to-eslint-config converts your TSLint configuration to ESLint.

A quick syntax parsing improvement for incorrectly formatted enums.

Just for fun, what if we represented binary values purely within TypeScript's logical type system?

Medium can eat it.

How I made TypeScript's parsing of name characters after numbers conform to the ECMAScript specification just a bit more strictly.

IE users are users too!

How I helped add an 'errors summary' to TypeScript's command-line --pretty --watch mode.

Or: How to suddenly anger everybody, everywhere!

How I contributed a change to TypeScript that allowed trailing commas in type parameter/argument lists.

Using lazily instantiated, dynamic classes instead of hand-written functions to reduce unnecessary work during loads.

Manipulating the details of TypeScript's emitted code to wrestle jQuery 2's older asynchronous constructs to work with modern `async`/`await`.

Using the popular NProgress library to visualize load progress on sites built on the AMD RequireJS loader