Milwaukee Hack 'n' Tell Retrospective

A few weeks ago I participated in a hack 'n' tell organized by RokkinCat and held at Ward 4 in Milwaukee. RokkinCat organizes these because, as they explain in their blog post, Wisconsin is last in startup activity, and I was happy to participate to try and make my home state a better place to work and live.

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Posted on 2016-11-10

Idea Fight!

I have a lot of ideas for side projects, but as most people will tell you, having ideas is easy - it's executing them that's hard and important. While I'm a skilled idea-haver, I am really bad at prioritizing them, as well as executing them.

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Posted on 2016-08-21

Language of the Month - Five Languages In

Due to especially busy summer months, language of the month is on hiatus. Over the last few months of conducting this experiment, I've had a chance to collect my thoughts on the experiment as a whole, and I thought now would be a good time to share them!

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Posted on 2016-08-08

How Does Git Know What Functions Look Like?

While recently skimming the man page for git-log, I came across a neat looking feature for the -L option:

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Posted on 2016-08-03

Thoughts on Static Typing and Smalltalk

I'm a huge fan of static typing - I have fond memories of playing with ML and Haskell in college, struck by the shear elegance of the programs I read, and how when I wrote programs, they seemed to "just work". Even though most of my professional life has been spent writing code in dynamically-typed languages, playing with Elm over the last year or so has rekindled my love for static types.

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Posted on 2016-07-12