Mostly JavaScript, and Date and Time, Sometimes Dogs
I occasionally give a conference talk. I m not a professional DevRel person, and the whole community doesn t know who I am so at the beginning of these talks, I usually put a Who I Am slide. This is the content of the slide from my library design patterns talk: Who am I? Engineering Manager Continue reading Enterprise Software Developer
Hi All! I was very lucky to have TC39 conveniently hosted at my home-campus Microsoft in Redmond Washington this July. It made for a very easy commute, and an enjoyable time. Starting off on a non-code note, TC39 has elected a new chair Rex Jaeschke. Rex will serve in this capacity for Continue reading TC39 July 2017
Amazingly awesome crowd at JSConf EU today! Can t believe how many people where here. Check it out: Packed house for @maggiepint on library design patterns. #jsconfeu pic.twitter.com/3m0MAAJeKQ — Tom Dale (@tomdale) May 7, 2017 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Thanks everyone for listening to me the whole time. A PDF version of the slides is here: JS Library Design Continue reading JSConfEU 2017…
In my previous post, I discussed things that could be fixed in JavaScript s date implementation if we wanted to. In this post, I ll discuss things that can t be fixed no matter how much we want them to be. No Semantic Versioning Here! Most developers are familiar with Semantic versioning, or semver. In semver, Continue reading Fixing JavaScript Date Web Compatibility and Reality
I ve been off the blog for a while, which has to do with a lot of things going on in my life. That said, I m happy to report that I m back with stories about a big project fixing the date handing in the JavaScript programming language itself! History A little backtracking here. I met Continue reading Fixing JavaScript Date Getting Started
I was privileged to represent the JS Foundation at TC39 in January of 2017. Check out this report on the JS foundation blog.
It was awesome to see everybody at That Conference today. I was amazed at how much enthusiasm I got for the open spaces discussion along with the talk. These are the slides from today: That Conference Date and Time from Maggie Pint I hope to talk to some people tomorrow at 10:30 in the open Continue reading That Conference
I m super excited to highlight this awesome RFC from Lucas proposing to bring his Frozen Moment immutability plugin into the Moment.js core package as an optional add-on. This RFC proposes a new Moment namespace, moment.frozen that wrappers all Moment functions with code that will automatically clone the Moment before performing mutations, creating an immutable API. Continue reading Immutability…
Yesterday I wrote a post about how Moment.js isn t immutable, and how it really isn t in the cards for development right now. I think as a team, we are sometimes not great about communicating things to our community that we are doing, and that are moving the library forward. As such, I wanted to write Continue reading Moment.js Stuff we ARE doing!
This post reflects my opinions about immutability in Moment.js. I do not speak for our entire team. About five months ago now, I joined the maintainers team of Moment.js. I actually didn t have much OSS experience before joining the Moment team, so jumping into such a massively popular library has been quite the experience. I Continue reading Why Moment.js Isn t Immutable Yet