Made it to Pittsburgh! I'm looking forward to Pittsburgh Tech Fest tomorrow where I'm giving a condensed version of "The Engineers Playbook: Starting a New Job". This is a great session for both leaders and those who are starting new roles.

Learning about UX and UI Design at NoVA Code Camp with @johnathayde.com

Made it to Reston for NoVA Code Camp! I'm looking forward to speaking about how you can learn the fundamentals of #functionalprogramming by solving a fun problem. If you're attending today, make sure to stop by the 9:30 session and say hi!

All squared away for #ATLDEVCON! If you've recently started a job (or if you're a manager who's hiring people), come check out my session at 10am that goes over my approach for getting up to speed quickly on a new role!

For those not aware, I started volunteering with Scouting America (formerly Boy Scouts) and I having a blast leading our first grade Cub Scout den. I did some parent volunteering last work with the Kindergarten group and found it to be a lot more fun than I remember scouts being when I was a kid

Came across this thoughtful post from @rubylang.bsky.social about Ruby Gem's (their package manager's approach) for identifying and dealing with supply chain security issues. It's always fascinating to see how other smart people tackle hard problems blog.rubygems.org/2025/08/25/r... #rubylang

VS 2026 Insider is available! Among many other changes, one not so obvious change in that release is the default to `.slnx` format, and the good news is that @platform.uno supports it out of the box! devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio... #dotnet

Finally got through a fun problem for the upcoming video (a new game mode) that had been tripping me up for a while. Stay tuned for a blog post about how to cancel async tasks in #node and #typescript

In last week's #codealong, we built out a basic math game for my son, J. As you might have guessed, we got some feedback on the game and have some new features to implement. So how do we implement new functionality without taking on technical debt? youtu.be/6AiztXnhfS0 #typescript #codealong

For this week, I'm trying something a bit different in the videos. It can be fun to show tips and tricks, but one thing I always appreciated was to see how other people think about problems. Interested? Check out the video below and let me know what you think! youtu.be/nbS5-_SONfo #typescript

Do I know anyone who's a leader or a member of the Pittsburgh .NET User Group or JavaScript group? I'm going to be in the area for Pittsburgh Tech Fest in October and I'd love to present to a user group while I'm in town. #javascript #dotnet #typescript

Anyone have a space in London that the Gleam London meetup can use? Would love somewhere we can have a few short presentations from folks

What a cool game, you should check it out!

This worked for me in Chrome, BRILLIANT 15087/10

Slightly diminish a band: Ho-hum at the Dance

Excited to see NoVA Code Camp coming back online. I already submitted some sessions, you should check them out! novacodecamp.org #cfp #techcfp

When working in #typescript, I love using union types as a way to limit a type to a set of possible values. However, I find myself needing to iterate through those values. In this video, I'll show you how to make that happen using const arrays youtu.be/eqjVojlFwJs?...

Looks like the CFP for Atlanta Dev Con is up. I already submitted some sessions, hope to catch you there! www.atldevcon.com sessionize.com/atlanta-deve...

Good morning! It's Tuesday, August 12th. What's the last board game you played?

While working on my Blackjack course I ran into an issue where some of my cards would be null. Given that I'm leveraging #fp techniques, how is it happening? In this post, we'll walk through the bug and how to use property based testing to check the fix blog.thesoftwarementor.com/articles/202...

A common concept in computing is the byte, a chunk of data is consisting of 8 bits (8 0s and 1s). But what if we had defined a byte to be 9 bits instead? I really enjoyed this write up from Pavel about what could have been. pavpanchekha.com/blog/9bit.html

Hey, let's get some cool stuff on the timeline. Do you have art of your character, either from yourself or commissioned? Show it off here! Please remember to tag your artists (links allowed) if it was commissioned, and keep that AI "art" off of our timeline.

guys do you know anyone in Poland in tech who runs meetups or other communities where they could promote FUN OCaml?

TypeScript recently released v5.9 with some cool changes, however I found that these changes didn't play well with one of my most used tools (ts-node). This post walks you through the issue and options for going forward. blog.thesoftwarementor.com/articles/202... #typescript

Enjoying this conversation with Bob Fornal about how do you get started in automating and improved the quality of your code and pipelines without tackling everything all at once here at #CincyDeliver. So many good insights @leadingedje.com

I'm looking forward to #CincyDeliver on Friday. It's a great event and I'm pumped to be speaking about #functionalprogramming concepts while we solve Mars Rover It's not too late to get tickets, so if you're going to be in Cincinnati, pop by and say hello! www.eventbrite.com/e/cincydeliv...

I've been working in Node and TypeScript for years now and have never sat down to learn how to make your own tooling. For example, I'm a big fan of the gitignore npm package as it quickly scaffolds a gitignore file for your project (as simple as running gitignore node). (1/3)

While working on a NPM package that's designed to be used globally, I discovered that "gin" is an alias for a PowerShell command (Get-ComputerInfo). Best way of handling conflicts like that is to update your "bin" command to include a namespace (so something like "smallbatch-gin")

When I've worked with engineers in the past, I've found there's a preference for both video and written content. With that in mind, I'm following up the recent video with a blog post on setting up a #Node project with #TypeScript and #Jest configured. blog.thesoftwarementor.com/articles/202...

Couple of changes since my last post 1. Uploaded my first video to YouTube! If you've ever wanted to create a basic node app from scratch, I'll walk you through from file new to a basic working example youtu.be/mphKoDUiZVg

Definitely one of the coolest venues I've ever presented at, thanks for inviting me out!

Curious about #FunctionalProgramming? Join us next week as @thesoftwarementor.com shows how to make LINQ from scratch! #dotnet 🎤What: Level Up on Functional Programming By Rebuilding LINQ 👨‍🏫Who: Cameron Presley ⌚When: June 26 @ Noon CST 🌐Where: Zoom Signup: www.meetup.com/sadnug/event...

Recently learned that JS has a way of marking something private by using the # symbol. Super helpful when dealing with private fields that you want to expose as public getter properties. blog.thesoftwarementor.com/articles/202...

Pleasantly surprised to find that the Lake Norman area has a baseball team, The Harbor Hippos! www.harborhippos.com

Elm was an early inspiration for me on #functionalprogramming as I found its architecture to be an intuitive way to think about apps. In this post, I walk you through implementing your own version using #typescript and #node blog.thesoftwarementor.com/articles/202...

Working on the Udemy course and I'm blown away by the great artwork that @reverentgeek.com did! It looks great and will absolutely help me stand out. If you dig his style, why not work with him on your project? He's awesome!

This was a brand new talk for me and the CapArea group was terrific! If you've been interested in learning how to design code where bugs are less likely to occur, give it a watch and let me know what you think!

Today has been a fun one! While working on the Udemy course, I decided to use the Model-View-Update pattern for the game loop and it worked out nicely! There are some parts to clean up, but it yielded easy to read/maintain code. Will need to noodle on it a bit more to get it in a blog post format.

Oh cool! Just saw that v4 of zod (schema validation library for node) and there's a ton of performance improvements. zod.dev/v4 Love to see it!

Looking through the show notes for this week's @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social and goodness, can't wait to hear what wonderful winding path we're going to take to get here.

Came across plainvanillaweb.com/index.html and found it to be an awesome explainer of basic web development! For example, I've always wondered how a component built in a framework got translated to HTML and this shows a good example.

It looks like the Call for Papers for @momentumdevcon.com is open and I just got done submitting some sessions on #functionalprogramming! It's open until May 31st and I've heard great things about the event, you should absolutely submit! sessionize.com/momentum-2025/ #speakers #cfps

At @stirtrek.com last week, I announced that I was working on a new Udemy course (launching Summer 2025) where we build out a game of Blackjack using #functionalprogramming concepts. For those who learn through video courses, would you prefer an all-code approach? Or does having some slides work?

I'm pretty excited to be speaking at #CincyDeliver2025! Come see my session "Learning Functional Programming Through Construction: First Principles" (www.cincydeliver.org/Sessions/Det...) on 8/1/2025. Get More Information or register at www.cincydeliver.org

I came across this post where a new hire, Steve, joined NeXT and grabbed an alias for [email protected], not realizing that maybe other people would confuse him for another Steve... A delightful read (and an audio clip from Jobs himself) blog.hayman.net/2025/05/06/f...

Another fun week lined up as I'm presenting at two user groups this week. On Tuesday, I'll be presenting at the Capital Area .NET User Group about how to prevent bugs by using better types to model domain concepts. If you're in the area, you can register at www.meetup.com/caparea-net/...

Successfully made it back from @stirtrek.com! A delightful event and glad that I was able to attend. Had a blast, but now time for some R&R

Pretty cool that you can use htmx to do service calls without using JS, I like the simplicity of this! @stirtrek.com

Learning about htmx with Eric Potter over at @stirtrek.com ! I've seen some cool stuff, but curious on his approach!

Wrapped up my session at @stirtrek.com and looking to learn about emerging languages with Stephanie Wightman