Enhanced performance, robust concurrency, and real type safety are just some of the advantages. — Learning Rust as an experienced TypeScript/JavaScript developer has its challenges. As I set out on this mission I decided to write up my general observations as a kind of note-pad for other developers: See also: https://davesag.medium.com/more-fun-with-rust-webassembly-a7a918231a56 The main points Ownership and Borrowing: Rust’s memory safety guarantees are built on these concepts. …

Use composable wrappers to apply cross-cutting concerns to functional React components — How many times do you find yourself writing a component like this: const Item => ({ id, title, summary }) => id ? ( <section> {title && <header> <h1> <a href={`/items/${id}`}>{title}</a> </h1> </header>} <p>{summary}</p> </section> ) : null where you check for the presence of a prop before rendering it?

And what are the skills that comprise a full-stack project team? — When I started building web applications in 1995 they were called data driven websites and the exciting jargon of the day was “three tier”. The idea was that a web app had three tiers. The Front End, which ran in the browser, displayed the ‘view’ tier, while, over in the…

Things to keep in mind when making minds — If you take it as a given that the QIC theory, or something a lot like it, presents a solid model of consciousness, and believe we can overcome the technical challenges of building a quantum computing platform to feed imaginary realities into a deep-learning style cognition system, you also would…

My first WebAssembly app in six little steps — First I create a simple WebAssembly “Hello World” application using Rust, explaining how to set up your development environment, write some Rust code, and then compile it to WebAssembly. Then I follow up with a small function that uses Wasm to resize an image. See Source Code: https://github.com/davesag/image_resize_and_combine where I’ve…

Care and handling of pure and simple vs display, and self-managed components — I’ve been working, as part of a team, on a project recently, building a React component library for use within a number of related corporate environments. As part of this process we’ve found it makes sense to classify the components in terms of where they get their data from. We’ve…

Because recursion rules. — A very common pattern when ingesting data from an API involves indexing that data within your app so you can read it back without searching. An example Let’s say you have an API that returns a list of items, such as. const ITEMS = [ { title: 'The…

And what’s a shitcoin? — TL;DR If Bitcoin is digital gold, then Ether is digital fuel, and most of the De-Fi coins, and NFTs you hear about are layered on top of Ether. Disclaimer Nothing I say constitutes financial advice; I’m not a financial advisor, I’m just someone into technology and art and their numerous intersections, and…

A form-letter for your clean-air taxing local senator or local member — Dear (insert correct salutation), I am voter in the electorate of (insert the name of your electorate) and write to you as someone who is concerned about the proposed introduction of a clean-air tax, aka an electric vehicle road-use tax. refs: pick one, or find another - https://thedriven.io/2020/11/11/south-australia-to-impose-road-user-tax-on-electric-vehicles-from-2021/ - https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/pallas-zaps-electric-cars-with-road-charge-20201121-p56gp3.html