Convoluted and silly thoughts on a myriad of programming languages
In which I give my convoluted, silly and petty thoughts on the programming languages that I've had a lot of experience with, including why I like or dislike them.
An Async Task Result computation in F#
Computation expressions in F# are a wonderful way to avoid spaghetti code, but trying to write a computation workflow that's compatible with .NET's async Task type can be daunting.
Building a CLI arguments parser with TypeScript
I've been building a Discord bot in my spare time, and came to the realization that most commands given to a Discord bot could really benefit from being treated like CLI arguments. I couldn't find a great argument parser that did everything I wanted, so I ended up building my own.
Flattening an array of arrays to their base types in TypeScript.
TypeScript has an incredibly powerful and flexible type system. This quick post shows how to turn the type `["Hello", ["Foo"]]` into `"Hello" | "Foo"`.
Handling schema or data type changes in TypeScript
Sometimes your data types, schemas or shapes will change. It happens, you design your app one way and inevitably down the road you need to make changes, whether it's adding a property, removing a property, changing a type or anything in between. It's something that happens to every app, and by taking advantage of TypeScript's type system you can make handling such changes a breeze.