Principal Engineer, type system nerd, Rust enthusiast, supporter of social justice, loving husband & father, avid comic & manga reader, 日本語を勉強してる。
I’m a Software Architect with more than 15 years of experience creating high performance server and front-end applications targeting web and mobile platforms, & today I lead a team at Formidable Labs.
Last month I attended Mountain West JS [http://mtnwestjs.org/] and learned a lot from some excellent speakers. Several of the talks introduced me to new concepts or perspectives, and one in particular inspired me to think about what we do in a whole new way. Whitney Williams [http://whitneyeliz.com…
Brandon Konkle
Back in October, I began work on a side project that I was really excited about. My goal was to relive the excitement and fascination of text-based roleplaying [https://www.konkle.us/reviving-mush-style-roleplay/] that I had experienced in my youth. Real life inevitably got in the way, however, and…
Brandon Konkle
NOTE: Much of the information here is outdated. Watchify [https://github.com/substack/watchify] eliminates the need for a vendor bundle entirely. Use it with Gulp via vinyl-source-stream [https://www.npmjs.com/package/vinyl-source-stream]. Last month I talked about one of my favorite tools for Java…
Brandon Konkle
I've been struggling for a little while now with a distinct lack of enthusiasm for programming. Some of it is certainly due to a measure of chaos in my family as we work through a move and some health issues, but that definitely doesn't account for all of it. I've been spending some time…
Brandon Konkle
In May of last year, Facebook released an open source library for building frontend components called React [http://facebook.github.io/react/]. It's built around some rather unorthodox philosophies about the browser and application structure, but over time it has gained quite a bit of steam as m…
Brandon Konkle