A lot has already been written about RecoilJS , the new orthogonal 1 state manager for React. Many articles have been written about what…

There are three operations you can perform with GraphQL: Mutations, Queries, and Subscriptions. Mutations are designed solely for performing…

When it comes to years, 2019 was definitely a banger! Here's a few goals and happenings. I've continued to work on Thorium , which…

Sometimes, in a fever of genius, you write an opus of code, magnificent in its function, unknowable in its complexity. These brilliant…

There comes a point in any project's lifecycle when one can look back and see all the alternate choices that might have made the project…

It's Hacktoberfest season, which means novice and experienced open-source contributors are creating pull-requests to the plethora open…

GraphQL is a powerful new technology that makes it easy for client apps to query specific data from a server. The server provides a…

Thorium is a game. I know it's very much about storytelling, simulation, and role-playing; but architecturally, it is a game engine. It…

In React, when you have two components that depend on the same state, you have to lift that state into a common parent and then share the…

Electron is a pretty nifty piece of software. For those who don't know, it combines a full Chromium-based web-browser with a NodeJS runtime…

Thorium is designed to work in a regular web browser. It does have a dedicated Electron client which you can use to lock down a computer…

This isn't a full blog post - you can expect one later this week. This is an announcement that I'll be spending the next couple of weeks…

There are a number of performance considerations which web developers have to consider that were never a worry of traditional app developers…

Modern JavaScript development is awesome! You can go to NPM (or another package repository ) and get code that someone else has written and…

React can do some really wild stuff. In this post, I'll demonstrate loading remote React components and how that can be (ab)used to create a…

JavaScript really has grown up in the past decade. It used to be slow and localized to only a web browser context. With the advent of Node…

In March of 2006, Amazon Web Services launched and changed everything 1 . Before, there were a bunch of different hosting providers that you…

So you've got your site written, you've got it hosted somewhere (maybe using a static host? ), you've bought yourself a domain. How do you…

The second hardest thing in programming is naming stuff. 1 Maybe that's why every pattern and every trend has to have a name and branded…

Can I tell you a secret? I run a (very) modest internet business distributing spaceship simulator software . Guess how much it costs me to…

People often get really excited about new versions of things - iOS 13, Chrome 73, ES2018. All of these represent the latest and greatest…

I already wrote a lot about promises in my earlier post on the basics and another post on some weird tricks . You should probably read…

If you aren't familiar with promises, be sure to check out my earlier post on the topic . In this post, I'll be talking about some…

I heard in a podcast recently that promises are a really scary thing for new developers. It's been a long time since I've had to learn…

I read this tweet recently: It's a great tweet, and she does indeed have a LOT of great tutorials (Thanks Tania!), but when I read that I…

We all know that a Promise in JavaScript is a way to perform tasks or get data asynchronously. That is, the promise will do its thing in the…

Here's my regular report on the past year. In one word: terrific! It was a great year, personally, professionally, intellectually, and in…

Updating nested objects in JavaScript in an immutable used to be a pain. Heck, I don't even know that I ever did it. I would just manipulate…

In my last post , I talked about how the Voyager would be constructed. Guess what? It was! You can visit them today , and you totally…

Last year , I put down a set of goals which I wanted to acomplish in 2017. I can definitely say I acomplished all of them. Well, except…

I did an internship this summer with FamilySearch . YAY! Actually, in all honesty, it was pretty great and was exactly what I was looking…

In Sunday School, a teacher told the story of her teenage daughter. Anyone who has been that age will get this. At some point during her…

The DOM This post was written for a WebDev Guild requirement. When a browser parses an HTML document, it takes the text from the HTML and…

Despite the intense disappointment many people have had in 2016, it’s been a good year for me. Here’s the highlights: After deciding to not…

Build times are much faster. I’m a ‘code it, save it, check it’ kind of programmer, programming features bit by bit rather than all at once…

I’m starting to learn Elixir with the Phoenix Framework. This project has a pretty intense stack. I don’t know a whole lot about all of the…

For a project at work, I’m creating a React Native app. The nice thing about React Native is you can load the javascript bundle (the brains…

I'm babysitting a fish. He's a beautiful red betta. I'm not sure what his name is or even if he is a he, but for the sake of this blog post…

I took a trip up to Logan a few weekends ago, which in and of itself was an interesting experience. I merely want to touch on one happening…

The greater the agency, the greater the growth At a recent Stake Conference, one of the general authorities said this, almost in passing. It…

I first got The idea for Shank You at a company activity. One of the managers was talking about how his ward had put together a game of…

Hey Everybody! I've revamped my blog, which hopefully means I'll be writing in here a little bit more. I also think that I'll be writing…

After another spin around the sun, tis time for another yearly recap. This year has certainly been harder than most in the hardest way…

read an article from a guy named Mark Manson - a pretty sharp life coach (but a pretty profane dude - watch out if you ever read his stuff…

Over the past few months, I've compiled together a collection of totally unrelated yet meaningful ideas which I was planning on writing in…

Part 1 Fair warning: What follows is going to be incredibly technical, especially towards the end. I joined the Farpoint Creative team on…

Give this one a good read. It's a quick read, but shows how important, how valuable it is to do things for yourself. Nowadays, it's dead…

This video gets me every time. I can't watch it without being filled to the brim with awe, inspiration, anticipation, excitement and joy. It…

I've written about my dad on this blog before. I make it no secret that I truly look up to him and revere him, not only because he's my…

My mother is the bravest woman I know. I was born in a time of great uncertainty and challenge. Funds were short; expenses were high. I was…

I found this beauty of prose and immediately related. That is to say, it not only resonated with me, but also answered some deep, poignant…

One of my favorite scriptures in the entire standard works is found in the Book of Mormon, Helaman 3:35: Nevertheless they did fast and pray…

That's my favorite scene from this year's Mormon.org Easter video. I would totally recommend the whole thing, but this scene really spoke…

I make it no secret that I have a strange hobby. People are always either impressed, surprised, or confused when I describe to them what I…

I was going on a date with someone I didn't know. It really wasn't that big of a deal. I had surprised myself by asking her for her number…

It has been three years to the day that I left Utah to go to...Utah. Well, Utah, and then Pennsylvania. I went from civilian life to a life…

Rewind time back to 2006. What did you do to waste time back then? Fast forward back to now. What do you do to waste time? I've decided it's…

I was in Kim's office. Kim is my boss at BlenderBottle, a major business with over one hundred employees, thousands of retailers across the…

Who likes getting letters? I certainly do. There is nothing better than going to the mailbox and finding an envelope with your name…

Ninja code of ethics Use the art to obtain information to gain an advantage Use the art to survive - to survive is a natural instinct - it…

I found this in my interweb perusal, and thought that I would share. You admire a character for trying more than for their successes. You…

In the church, there are a couple of supposedly unwritten rules, such as never turning down a call or never specifically requesting a…

I know that I'm a couple of days late, but I still feel it appropriate to share these things. What follows is some excerpts from my mission…

Our family just concluded a very successful trip down to Southern California. We spent a couple of days in the Disneyland Resort parks, took…

An interesting thing that I've learned in the past few weeks. But first, a story! I was in York a few months ago with Elder Ramos, a native…

A multitude of things have surprised me about coming home. Many things were totally unexpected; some things went beyond expectation. Here…