Category: English
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How comparing things is faster and simpler with immutability
The third post of the series about the differences between values and references is focused on a practical example, the same trick that is at the core of React and Redux performance.
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How equality and copy operations work
This is the second post of a series about how fundamental operations work depending on the nature of data they work with. JavaScript is used as example.
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Value and reference data types
The introductory post of a series about how fundamental operations behave depending on the nature of the data they work with. JavaScript will be used as an example.
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CSS Grid from Galifornia
One of the bigger milestones in Q1 2017 was the landing of the new CSS Grid standard in all major browsers. Personally, the cool thing about this is that support for WebKit and blink (namely, Safari and Chrome browser) was led and developed by IGALIA with a team of people (Manuel, Javier, and Sergio) from Galiza. I…
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A week of FP and JS
Just this week, two of my colleagues at Automattic have written about Functional Programming concepts. Check Grzegorz’s A journey to Functional JavaScript and Miguel’s Functors and monads: an introduction.
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A more expressive vocabulary for programming
map and friends are more precise, sophisticated ways to talk about consistent patterns in data manipulation. Using them over for is analogous to using the word “cake” instead of “the kind of food that you make by whipping egg whites and maybe adding sugar”. Interestingly, you can eventually add new layers of category on top of established layers:…
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Simple made easy
Precise words make communication more efficient. Arguably, software development is about managing conceptual complexity. Simple made easy, by Rich Hickey is a talk that tackles those two topics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSwPOpOKr3w Two takeaways from this talk: The differences between simple and easy. Simplicity is an objective measure, and its units are the level of interleaving (of concepts).…
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La La Land
Now, this is a musical that I like. Entertaining, moving, and complex. I wouldn’t say musicals are my kind of films. My personal favorite is Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, which is typical Burton. I didn’t like Les Misérables and haven’t watched Moulin Rouge. That’s my track record. Yet, this film is energizing, jazz everywhere, a…
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To the hackers that grew older
A rant about the need to create more community-centered software, instead of focusing too much on the individual.
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My office i4
I’ve been working from home for more than 3 years now, and my setup has gone through several iterations – the current one is i4. After joining Automattic, I was encouraged to think about my office setup. The company sponsors the kind of high-quality office perks that you’ll expect in companies at this level, and…
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git time machine
I really like this interface for navigating the git log. If only I could select a stretch of time and make zoom – that’d be spectacular.
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Howdy Automattic
This is part of the invitation I was sent to join Automattic. I accepted. Today marks my first day as an automattician, and I am excited to become part of this family. My day-to-day will be filled with the joys and woes of programming but under Automattic’s creed, I feel safe, motivated and happy to…
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Taking PHP seriously
Slack se une al club de los que usan PHP: Most programmers who have only casually used PHP know two things about it: that it is a bad language, which they would never use if given the choice; and that some of the most extraordinarily successful projects in history use it. This is not quite…
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React before React
While it might look like an overnight success in hindsight, the story of React is actually a great example of how new ideas often need to go through several rounds of refinement, iteration, and course correction over a long period of time before reaching their full potential. – Our first 50.000 stars.
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Trois Gymnopédies , de Eric Sattie
Trois Gymnopédies, de Eric Sattie. My current favorite for working purposes.
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Dumb Redux
Concepts are the real win, and they can be expressed in many different ways. – Tom MacWright, Dumb Redux.
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Neal Stephenson on getting big stuff done
En esta charla, Stephenson, introduce la idea de que, como sociedad, nos hemos olvidado de cómo llevar a cabo grandes empresas, esas que se consideran imposible. Hasta que se consiguen. Considera que en la raíz de esto está la pérdida de apoyo a lo cientifíco, que se evidencia en detalles diarios como padres que no…
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Paul Romer
In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs that we’ve undertaken in the last century. – The politically incorrect guide to ending poverty. A profile of Paul Romer, the new World Bank chief economist.
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Product listing information
3 Key Design Principles for Product Listing Information. A study on how to show product info focused on e-commerce. It also applies to general element lists.