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Why I avoid async/await

Whatever your stance on async/await, I’d like to pitch to you on why, in my experience, async/await tends to make code more complicated…

10 min readMar 5, 2022

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Have we forgotten how to think in React?

It’s been a minute or two since “think in React” was something that was talked about. React has changed quite a bit since then. Is it even…

6 min readNov 14, 2021

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The Coming Storm

A crisis of experience is coming. More people than ever are getting into software development, but the need for software engineers is…

3 min readSep 6, 2021

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Understand More By Thinking Less

“Knowledge is power” it is said. It is also said that “power tends to corrupt”. These axioms are true in our code as much as they are true…

6 min readMay 29, 2021

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Dieter Rams’ design principles applied to source code

Dieter Rams is arguably the most celebrated and influential product designers of the last century. His ten principles of “good design”…

11 min readMay 7, 2021

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JavaScript Classes Are Just Rube Goldberg Machines for Objects

The whole job of a class is to ultimately create an object. But JavaScript has one of the simplest, most clear and succinct ways of…

10 min readApr 20, 2021

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String concatenation operator considered harmful

It’s been a minute since I’ve last seen a “considered harmful” story. I’d say it’s about time for a new one.

2 min readApr 16, 2021

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To hell with nuance, arrow function all the things

Let’s cut to the chase. There have been several high profile folks in the JS community that have laid out some pretty strict limitations…

11 min readJan 6, 2020

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Maybe You Don’t Need That Utility Library After All: Part II

Note: I apologize for the length of time between posts.

7 min readDec 11, 2018

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“Why can’t we just go back to”-ism Rises Like A Zombie From The Grave Yet Again.

A recent article popped up in my inbox touting an alternative to the overly complicated world of client-side apps. Modern Rails! was the…

6 min readJul 10, 2018

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“Why can’t we just go back to”-ism Rises Like A Zombie From The Grave Yet Again.

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Cory

Cory

Front End Engineer with deep technical expertise in JS, CSS, React, Frontend Architecture, and lots more. I lean functional, but I focus on maintainability.

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