My Annual Review 2019

Here’s my annual professional review covering 2018. ...

December 31, 2019 · 3 min · Jake Worth

Technologist Reading List

Here’s my list of favorite programming books. ...

September 28, 2019 · 3 min · Jake Worth

A Short Introduction to Test-Driven-Development (TDD)

I’ve practiced TDD (Test-Driven-Development) for years and feel knowledgeable about when it’s useful and when it isn’t. In this post, I’d like to summarize what I’ve learned. ...

September 11, 2019 · 3 min · Jake Worth

Pangram in TypeScript

I’ve been doing Exercism’s TypeScript exercises, and wanted to share my pangram-checking utility. ...

July 29, 2019 · 1 min · Jake Worth

JavaScript Equality

A few weeks ago, I built an app with React.js and create-react-app that I call ‘JavaScript Equality’. View deployment here. This application demonstrates the JavaScript value-comparison operators == and ===. It’s inspired by the JavaScript Equality Table. ...

July 17, 2018 · 2 min · Jake Worth

A Git Workflow to Keep Branches Current and PRs Clean

My current favorite command line alias is mgrim, composed of four other aliases. Here’s what it is, and what it does. ...

July 11, 2018 · 1 min · Jake Worth

Comprehensive Instructions

A user opened an issue in Tilex last week that I spent a significant amount of time thinking about and talking about (thanks JB) before responding to. Here’s the truncated request: May I ask you to compile a step-by-step list to set up a running TIL instance? ...

July 9, 2018 · 2 min · Jake Worth

The Universal Programming Language

Recently I tried to answer a question that I think is common to consider when you’re first learning about computer programming. I’ll paraphrase: Why can’t there be an “universal” programming language that serves all purposes? ...

September 17, 2017 · 2 min · Jake Worth

How I Talk: My Guide to Tech Public Speaking

I’ve been giving technical talks for a few years, and I’m speaking at the Vim Chicago Meetup next month about integrating React with Vim. In this post, I’m going to use that opportunity as an excuse to document my speaking process. ...

August 9, 2017 · 10 min · Jake Worth

Execution Credibility: Ship, Then Signal

As soon as you can, just do the thing you have to do, and respond with: “It’s done.” ...

July 19, 2017 · 2 min · Jake Worth