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Pure UI Control

This month marks 10 years that I’ve been paid to build web user interfaces. And today is the second anniversary of Guillermo Rauch’s essay Pure UI. Those two anniversaries have led me to reflect on the past and future of UI development. The past 10 years has seen major improvements…

JavaScript

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Pure UI Control
Pure UI Control
JavaScript

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Jan 23, 2018

Learning about learning

Thanks to an extended holiday vacation and some family illnesses, I was lucky enough to spend two weeks reading about how people and teams learn. It was really interesting. Why read about learning? A few months ago, I started working at Stripe. It has felt like Neo getting plugged into the training modules. Except…

Education

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Education

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Apr 21, 2017

What are the important problems in UI engineering?

Let’s escape the day-to-day to survey what’s coming next — Very early in my programming career, I read a transcript of the talk “You and Your Research”, by Richard Hamming, a mathematician whose name appears in the title of at least six Wikipedia pages for important things he invented. I was struck by a question which he persistently asked of…

JavaScript

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JavaScript

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Apr 19, 2017

Preact in pictures

I gave a talk at tonight’s ReactJS Denver meetup about Preact. Part 1 describes Preact, why you might want to use it, and the tradeoffs you have to make by not using full React. Part 2 walks through what Preact is doing internally to render and diff a simple application…

React

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Preact in pictures
Preact in pictures
React

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Apr 18, 2017

The new fast: advanced web performance best practices for 2017

Or: what Souders’ books didn’t tell you because it only happened in the last two years. — (This is a blog version of a presentation I gave at work a few weeks ago. Because I talked about a couple internal-only things, I can’t put up the video, but I hope it is worthwhile to share the slides and some notes.) This presentation is focused on bringing you…

Web Development

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The new fast: advanced web performance best practices for 2017
The new fast: advanced web performance best practices for 2017
Web Development

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Apr 2, 2017

Concurrent ML has a branding problem

And some suggestions from a complete outsider — Yesterday I published a post arguing that more programmers should learn about Concurrent ML. Especially for UI development, CML offers better abstractions and some ready-made solutions for problems that are currently hard or ugly to solve. But experts in this material may have noticed something odd about my post: I…

Concurrency

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Concurrency

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Apr 2, 2017

Synchronizable abstractions for understandable concurrency

Or: what is Concurrent ML all about? — In this post I’d like to introduce you to a powerful idea for thinking about concurrent programs. Synchronizable abstractions were developed more than twenty years ago by John Reppy in his work creating the language Concurrent ML. …

Concurrency

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Synchronizable abstractions for understandable concurrency
Synchronizable abstractions for understandable concurrency
Concurrency

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Mar 27, 2017

Preact internals #3: some fiddly little bits

How the virtual dom actually gets rendered to the DOM — So far in this series, we’ve gotten a feel for the Preact repo and looked at the component model from a high level. When we left off last time, we had just finished our picture of the muturally-recursive process of diffing virtual DOM trees and rendering components: And we had…

JavaScript

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Preact internals #3: some fiddly little bits
Preact internals #3: some fiddly little bits
JavaScript

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Mar 14, 2017

Preact internals #2: the component model

What distinguishes the React component model, the difference between functional and class-based components, and an overview of how it all works. — In the first post in this series, we started to build a mental model of the Preact codebase, explored some fringe code for utilities and global options, and saw how JSX becomes virtual dom trees. …

React

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Preact internals #2: the component model
Preact internals #2: the component model
React

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Mar 11, 2017

Preact internals #1: the easy parts

An introduction and gentle first steps in a series where we’ll read the Preact codebase and try to completely understand it. — About the series I assume you are already familiar with the React component model and virtual dom rendering. A first React book or online course should be enough background. I also assume you know what Preact is and are interested in it either to make your applications load faster or just because you…

JavaScript

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JavaScript

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