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The Business Case for TypeScript

January 24, 2020
It's a language that can lead to greater reliability and enjoyability of the code and hospitality of the codebase. There's a solid business case to be made for it, but if you don't like it then just write JavaScript.
Tags: typescriptjavascriptprogrammingstatic typingbusiness

Creating Problems with Software Solutions

October 02, 2019
Software companies should have a healthy fear that their programmed panaceas might make the world a strictly worse place to be.
Tags: aiappsethicsprogrammingreflectionsoftware

Against God and Nature [a review]

September 23, 2019
Sin is one of those tricky words that we suppose we have a grasp of, but upon closer inspection turns out to be a bit more slippery to talk about than we first imagined. Though we might at first blush say sin is something like "doing bad things" or…
Tags: godnaturesinthomas mccall

God and Galileo [a review]

May 27, 2019
Faith vs. Science: from nearly every vantage point, there is some degree of tension between the two. Like oil and water, they just don't mix. To some, the answer to this "tension" is obvious: faith is a weird hobby you do in private like designing…
Tags: david blockfaithgalileogodkenneth freemanreviewscience

ESV Illuminated Art Journaling Bible [a review]

February 25, 2019
What is the purpose of owning a personal Bible? While for some a Bible might satisfy the need to be connected to something transcendent, I'd imagine many people would purchase a Bible so as to read it. Unfortunately, a majority of English Bibles in…
Tags: art journalingbiblecrosswayesvreview

Stereotypical End-of-year 'Best Books' Blog Post Title

December 29, 2018
What makes a book good? I read a decent number of books per year, and I am always quite hesitant to rate a book higher than 4 stars, mostly because I want 5 stars to mean something beyond "I enjoyed this book." To that end, my top books of the year…
Tags: amishbookschristmasevery good endeavorreadingreviewtechnologywheel of timewingfeather saga

ESV Archaeology Study Bible [A Review]

June 22, 2018
I have a love-hate relationship with study Bibles. On the one hand, the Bible is thousands of years old, and you'd be a fool to solely rely upon your own intuition about what it all means. That's not to say there's some mystical secret da Vinci code…
Tags: archaeologybible studycrosswayesv

Ready Player One [A Review]

March 18, 2018
A fun adventure, but depressing in its view of the world.
Tags: adventurebook reviewernest clineready player onesci fi

Static Typing: a Personal Journey

December 21, 2017
Last February my company sent me to the Colorado School of Mines, my alma mater, to recruit computer science grads. Many of my former classmates were there as well, and I started chatting with a guy who was telling me about his job where he wrote…
Tags: elmjavascriptreasonmlstatic typingtypescript
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