mut (and set) and autotracking in Ember Octane —JOURNAL

Understanding a surprising behavior—and fixing a refactoring hazard.

Building the Slow Way—JOURNAL

Or, part of why rewrite is taking a while: I’m in this for the long haul.

Migrating Off of PromiseProxyMixin in Ember Octane —JOURNAL

An important refactor for getting rid of mixins and proxies.

Async Data and Autotracking in Ember Octane—JOURNAL

Digging into the load helper and AsyncData type I introduced in an earlier post.

Autotracking: Elegant DX Via Cutting-Edge CS —JOURNAL

A modern JavaScript reactivity system powered by Lamport clocks and incremental computation and depth-first searches: oh my!

Initializing Class Fields in Ember Octane —JOURNAL

One of the many small-but-lovely benefits of getting to use native classes in Ember Octane.

Ember Octane is a New Mental Model—JOURNAL

…not a 1:1 translation from Ember Classic—but that’s often a big win!

Understanding args in Glimmer Components—JOURNAL

Clearing up a common confusion with a worked example.

Announcement: Speaking at EmberConf 2021 —ELSEWHERE

In which I’ll be speaking for 30 minutes at a JS conference… and will spend only about 5 of those minutes on JS.

Progressive Disclosure of Complexity and Typed FP Languages—JOURNAL

Or, one part of why to some extent Elm, and to a significant degree PureScript Halogen, can be quite difficult for users to get their heads around at first.

RFC: Semantic Versioning for TypeScript Types ↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

In which years of thinking and months of design come to fruition.

Impromptu EmberConf 2021 AMA↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

In which my friend David Baker put me on the spot… and it was great!

Keep It Local—ELSEWHERE

Or: (part of) what “reasoning about your code” really means; being my EmberConf 2021 talk.

Chatting About Web Dev ↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

Ember CLI history, ember-auto-import, web bundling, and more

Ember.js Template Imports: Part 1 —JOURNAL

Introducing the series and walking through the formats.

Ember.js Template Imports: Part 2 —JOURNAL

Which template imports design has the biggest set of wins for teaching and understanding components?

Ember.js Template Imports: Part 3 —JOURNAL

Evaluating the tradeoffs of template language designs for tooling.

Ember.js Template Imports: Part 4 —JOURNAL

Keeping, and improving on, one of Ember’s fundamental commitments—and biggest strengths: its integrated testing.

Ember.js Template Imports: Part 5 —JOURNAL

What about styles? (A bonus post!)

Ember.js Template Imports: Part 6 —JOURNAL

Given the tradeoffs in the space, what is the best set of compromises we can make?

Request for Comments: First-Class Component Templates ↩︎—❈—JOURNAL

Given all the analysis from this series, a concrete proposal to move this forward!

Ember v4 TypeScript Support Update↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

Semantic Versioning for TypeScript Types 1.0.0-beta.1↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

After years of work, I’ve published the first beta of the spec for semantic versioning for TypeScript types!

The Road to TypeScript↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

My EmberConf 2022 talk (with, again, a lot of non-Ember interest).

Conditional Modifiers and Helpers in Ember—JOURNAL

A handy feature you can use in recent versions of Ember.

Whiskey, Web, and Whatnot: Bringing Types to Ember ↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

Chatting with the good folks at ShipShape about TypeScript, Ember, composing, whiskey, and more.

RFC: Evolving Ember's Major Version Process ↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

On the Ember Blog: Plain Functions as Helpers ↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

Making sure people understand a new feature we shipped which is a big deal.

Open Source—JOURNAL

Notes on the sheer scale of recently-completed open source efforts of mine.

Announcing the Official TypeScript Types Public Preview↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

Wacky Tricks We Use in Publishing TypeScript Types (for Ember.js)↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

A walkthrough of the shenanigans we have to do to make TypeScript understand how to import @ember packages from ember-source.

Patterns for “Smart” Components in Ember—JOURNAL

…which generalize to other frameworks pretty well, too.

2022 in Review: Professional —JOURNAL

My fourth year at LinkedIn: odd, and challenging—with some failures!—but not bad.

On Ember’s New Major Version Cadence—JOURNAL

Not just how this one specific process for one JavaScript framework is changing, but why—and why I hope it will be useful to other projects as well!

Glint Deep Dives↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

A 6-part YouTube explainer series digging deep into Glint!

2023 in Review: Professional—JOURNAL

The Cutting Edge of Versioning (LambdaConf 2024)—ELSEWHERE

Semantic Versioning, library & framework evolution, programming language design, type systems, and you.

Changelog Interviews #597: Major.Semver.Patch ↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

Teaming up with Predrag Gruevski to talk SemVer with Adam and Jerod.