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。
My latest posts on JavaScript, covering topics from the React ecosystem and elsewhere.
http://dailyjs.com/files/2013-survey-summary.pdf Some things that I found interesting: Compile-to-JavaScript pretty much just means CoffeeScript. * CoffeeScript 590 64% * TypeScript 181 19% * ClojureScript 38 4% * Dart 38 4% * Other 82 9% The "No semicolon" movement is very much a…
Brandon Konkle
I just found out about React [http://facebook.github.io/react/], a JavaScript library from Facebook The philosophy is really interesting. As I understand it, when there are changes to the data they render to a shadow DOM (which is very fast since nothing is actually updated on the screen), diff it…
Brandon Konkle
Lately I've been experimenting with whitespace sensitivity in my template language (Jade) and precompilers (CoffeeScript, Sass, etc.). My initial reaction is that I love whitespace sensitivity! You don't have to type nearly as much, and you don't have to worry as much about the coding st…
Brandon Konkle
I've been making some progress on my roleplaying game project, to which I've given the working title "In Character". To begin with, I've done some UI prototyping. Here's a glimpse of the core roleplaying interface in its infancy: [https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/konkl…
Brandon Konkle
TechCrunch: Your App Is Slow Because Our World Is Ending [http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/13/your-app-is-slow-because-our-world-is-ending/] > But ask AMD; ask Broadcom; a considerable amount of evidence seems to indicate that over the last few years, at least on a bang-per-buck basis, the breakne…
Brandon Konkle