I’m back again with the second in my series of posts chronicling my adventures as I try different backend languages for writing a simple but real API. Admittedly, I did this quite some time ago and have been slacking when…
I went to RustConf this weekend. The night before the conference there was a Tokio hack night for people to learn about and start hacking on Tokio based applications and middleware. I didn’t end up getting to anything for Tokio…
I recently started giving Angular2 a solid look and decided try it out on a greenfield prototype project for work. Since the project is a proof of concept, I’m not too worried about yet another Router deprecation. My initial impression…
Yesterday, I gave a talk at the Seattle Rust meetup. Here is a link to the slides: https://cmgriffing.github.io/rust-concurrency-talk/ To start off, I might not be very qualified to give a talk about Rust. However, I was going to research concurrency…
I have been toying with several other languages lately like Rust and Go. The thing I love about these languages is a lack of exceptions. Things are easier to reason about and no try/catch. It seems to me, with generators…
Notice: This post is outdated. The router for React Native has changed significantly. I have an almost complete React project that was written a while ago using Reflux before Redux was well known. I decided I needed to port the…
I decided to make Rust the first language in a series of rewrites to a Node.js API. My goal is to learn a decent amount about the language while finding the particular things I like and don’t like about them….
Update: Here are the follow up posts about my experiences trying out various languages. Learning by Porting: Rust Edition I have an API that I wrote in Node.js, Proficionym. I like it and it was really fun to make, but…
Meet Nimbuscam, a client-side, serverless security camera application that uploads frames to the cloud. Some history: With the creation of the WebRTC spec there are a lot of cool things you can do with the browser these days. I wanted…
With the future of Express uncertain, a lot of people are looking for another framework to take its place. There are numerous options to choose from with the top 2 being Hapi.js and Koa.js. This post isn’t going to claim…
