Coffee Break Coder

CSharp

Gose

I hope to leave you refreshingly sour and salty

FSharp

What I Love about F#'s Type System

Now I know my A -> B 's, see? Next time won't you sing with me? Too much?

CSharp

Deep Heresy in C#

A while back I wrote a heretical post about extensions for nullable reference types [https://www.coffeebreakcoder.com/csharp-heresy-nullable-extension-methods/] in C#. It was ok. But since writing it I have lived and learned. I've delved deeper. Darker. Seen things no C# developer ever wants to see. The Horror

CSharp

Do We Need Lenses for Records?

Immubitably

CSharp

Cheap Interfaces

Sometimes it's hard to see the forest through the trees.

Clojure

Learning Clojure: Where to Start

It will change your life. That's the definition of doing something different right?

Vue

Rendering from a Different Vue

Have I gone too far with the play on words?

JavaScript

Spread Partial Love

Using JavaScript's spread to enable partial application

Heresy in C#: Nullable Reference Extensions

C# 8 here I come

The Distance

A year in review

Swift

Func-y Swift Infix Operators

If you've ever so much as glanced at F# code (or even Elm or Elixir) you've come across the forward pipe operator |>, and likely some form of composition operator like >>. These operators are common in functional languages, but are absent in our favorite

Expressionize Swift's Switch

I've been having a little too much fun using Swift lately. It has this beautiful combination of object oriented and functional features that I find irresistible. Unfortunately nothing is perfect, so there's one thing Swift doesn't have that I really miss, control flow expressions.

Swift on the Windows Subsystem for Linux

Not long ago Swift was open sourced and made available on Linux, opening up the possibility for server-side Swift. I've always thought Swift was a beautiful language (it looks a lot like Rust), but I never went any further than that thought. I didn't think server-side

Basic Docker for Curious Moon

A few months ago I stumbled upon the best SQL tutorial I've ever seen. Curious Moon [https://bigmachine.io/products/a-curious-moon/] by Rob Conery [https://rob.conery.io/]. I've struggled with SQL in the past because the basics are too simple to be memorable, but queries

2017: My First Year of Blogging

After a year of blogging, my initial reaction was frustration. I didn't think I had made much progress in a year. I fell short of my goal of writing a post every two weeks and felt that, as a result, I hadn't learned much during the

Leveling up with the F# Mentorship Program

The more I code, the more I seem to run into functional programming. It started with wanting to write better JavaScript, then it grew to include wanting to write better Rust. My interest led me to start reading Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) [https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

Investigating JavaScript Objects and Classes

In my last post, I compared a Rust struct and impl block to a Java class as a way to associate the initially odd Rust syntax with something more recognizable. I wanted to provide an example of something similar in JavaScript, but I couldn't decide what to show.

Testing. I Finally Get It.

Something I rarely see in coding tutorials is how to test your code. In fact, the first time I ever came across testing was when I started reading the Rust Book [https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/second-edition/], which was well over a year after I started coding. There are likely

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: Motivation

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs [https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html] (which I will call "SICP" from here on out) by Abelson and Sussman is a text I see referenced almost everywhere I turn. Most recently, I've seen it discussed with almost

Rust: A Systems Language for Coffee Break Coders

As self-taught programmers - and maybe even as traditionally educated programmers, I'm not sure - we generally get pushed towards learning one of maybe three or four languages: JavaScript, Python, Java, or C# (I imagine Swift will get added to this list once it's been around

An XML Adventure: Reflections

After I finished Part 2 of my XML adventure I realized something. Little wins are often the difference between a successful project and one that slowly drifts into oblivion. Especially for coffee break coders. My struggle with finding a way to parse XML with Java is a great example of

An XML Adventure: Part 2 - Go

Honestly, I probably didn't need to look into Go. Python gave me the answers and results I needed, and I probably should have stopped there. But I felt an inescapable draw to the new(ish) shiny language spawned from the greats at Google. via GIPHY [https://giphy.com/

An XML Adventure: Part 1 - Python

Recently I've had to deal with our XML at work more than usual. It's a mess to read, and trying check it for errors is extremely unwieldy. We have a program for making it easier to modify, but it doesn't help much if I

Design with Bootstrap

Whenever I think about building an app, I rarely give any thought to UI or UX design up front. I tend to focus on aspects of engineering like speed, efficiency, and maintainability. I am by no means an expert in any of these fields, but they are the aspects of

Your Mentor and You

One of the pieces of advice I see riddled throughout every resource about learning to code is to find a mentor. I have no doubt that this is good advice, I have had a mentor since I started coding and the guidance he has provided has been incredibly valuable to