It’s been a few months since I first approached Clojure, and approaching a functional language for the first time is quite an experience that makes you revisit and reevaluate many of your past experience and know-how with object-oriented (OO) languages...

I recently got to attend the annual AWS re:Invent conference. It was a bit like drinking from a firehose at times, but I’ve tried to distill my thoughts down into a top ten list of takeaways.

One of the most exciting and fun features that we implemented for our styling library was the grid system.

Our design team came up with the idea of using a golden ratio grid system, where they provide the proportions for the columns and we transform...

Google I/O. That’s the developer conference Google holds every year in San Francisco to explore the latest and greatest in tech, including web, mobile and everything in between and beyond! In 2013, only 8% of attendees were women and in 2014, it rose to 20%. This year I was lucky enough to attend I/O and was a part of the record 23% in attendance!

Wherein we explore multiple ways to write a unit test, and further, discovering an alternative that more fully expresses the intent of the code.