The Colbert Questionert
In honor of the ending of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, I decided to take his famous Questionert.
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🔔 CI Ding: Get Notified When CI Passes
CI Ding watches open GitHub pull requests in your browser and plays a real pass-or-fail sound when checks finally settle.
React Beyond the DOM
Using React custom renderers to do interesting things
🏁 Ripple Final Form
Implementing forms in future UI frameworks
🏁 Final Form goes to TypeScript
All Final Form modules have been modernized to TypeScript
Building Complex UI with State Machines
City JS Athens, React Alicante, What The Stack, and React Africa – 2024
Guide to the Internet
A paper I wrote about the emerging Internet in 1991.
Model Based E2E Testing with State Machines
with Playwright and @xstate/test – Tenerife, Spain – May 2023
Solid for React Developers
A shallow dive into understand what makes Solid fundamentally different from React
XState in Solid
How to use the best state machine library in Solid
Solid Final Form – Proof of Concept
Since its inception, Final Form was designed to outlive existing frameworks.
JavaScript Unsubscribe Sugar Proposal
I think it's fair to say that JavaScript is an "event-driven" language.
Coding in Flow
Render ATL – Atlanta, Georgia, USA – June 2022
Modeling React in XState
Can XState state charts improve your understanding of the React render cycle?
State Machines on the Edge
Remix Conf – Salt Lake City, Utah, USA – May 2022
Beatles in Code
A twitter thread I started back in May 2021
You're a Wizard Form, Harry.
Infobip Shift – Zadar, Croatia – September 2021
What I learned at Distru
As I leave this amazing company, I want to share a few of the things I learned.
Creating an Observable Subject in ReScript
Creating a Subject is a good way to test your skills in a new language.
A reducer is a single-state state machine
If you write a state machine that only has a single state, but modifies its context, what you've created is a reducer.
Finite State Machines in ReScript
ReScript's strong typing makes it especially well suited for defining Finite State Machines.
Should we follow Observables?
If all the social media platforms are moving from "subscribe" to "follow", what do we do to Observables?
Open Source Sustainability
The status quo in open source is broken. Corporations profit hugely from open source libraries, and give almost nothing back, which leads to burnout which is bad for everyone.
Render Props are Not Dead
React Europe – Not Paris 😭 – 2020
Modern Forms in React
ReactConf AU – Sydney, Australia – 2020
Modern Forms in React
JSDC – Taipei, Taiwan – 2017
⏯️ AudioCard — The React audio player designed for podcasts and Twitter cards
Engage your podcast audience on social media with an in-Twitter player!
Introducing… 🔒 Blockchain Form
From the guy who thought putting form state in Redux was a good idea...
🏁 Final Form: Form state management via Observers
Holy JS – Moscow – 2018
Next Generation Forms with React Final Form
React Alicante – Alicante, Spain – 2018
iOS Detective: The Case of the Stolen iPhone
What follows is a true story that happened to me last night.
💡 IDEA: JavaScript Compatibility as a Service
What if javascript bundling happened at the CDN?
Getting a Promise from Redux Actions
"Great!", you’re thinking...just what the world needs: another blog post about Promises in Redux! Don’t leave yet; this one’s different.
🏁 React Final Form HTML5 Validation
You can now get native HTML5 validation functionality by substituting your Field component with one from react-final-form-html5-validation.
Declarative Form Rules
How can I update field B when field A changes from X to Y?
Focus On Errors 🧐
Without a doubt, one of the most common questions I hear from people using my forms libraries is, "How can I focus on the first field that has an error?"
🏁 Final Form — Decorators, Calculated Fields, and Warnings
Two examples of how powerful decorators and mutators can be, when combined with the subscription-based paradigm of 🏁 Final Form
🏁 Final Form – Field Arrays and Mutators
Extending the core functionality of Final Form
🏁 Final Form – Announcement
The road to the checkered flag
A practical guide to Redux Form
React Alicante – Alicante, Spain – 2017
Redux Dead Drop
Asynchronous Communication Like A Spy
Abstracting Form State with Redux Form
JS Channel – Bangalore, India – 2016
The HOC Drill Pattern
Drilling props through HOC-wrapped components