Less than a week away until I talk about #functionalprogramming at the Albuquerque.NET User Group. Hope to catch you there! www.meetup.com/albuquerque-...

Functional Programming Through Construction with Cameron Presley, Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

In the past five years, functional programming has increased dramatically in popularity which has lead to an explosion of resources in learning these concepts. But, between

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Second #csadvent today from @thesoftwarementor.com: Reducing Bugs by Using the Model View Update Pattern - blog.thesoftwarementor.com/articles/202... #csharp #dotnet

For this year's #csadvent, I wrote a post about how you can simplify business logic by using the Model View Update (The Elm Architecture) pattern using basic #functionalprogramming concepts like pure functions and composition. #csharp blog.thesoftwarementor.com/articles/202...

Made it to Pittsburgh! I'm looking forward to Pittsburgh Tech Fest tomorrow where I'm giving a condensed version of "The Engineers Playbook: Starting a New Job". This is a great session for both leaders and those who are starting new roles.

Learning about UX and UI Design at NoVA Code Camp with @johnathayde.com

Made it to Reston for NoVA Code Camp! I'm looking forward to speaking about how you can learn the fundamentals of #functionalprogramming by solving a fun problem. If you're attending today, make sure to stop by the 9:30 session and say hi!

All squared away for #ATLDEVCON! If you've recently started a job (or if you're a manager who's hiring people), come check out my session at 10am that goes over my approach for getting up to speed quickly on a new role!

For those not aware, I started volunteering with Scouting America (formerly Boy Scouts) and I having a blast leading our first grade Cub Scout den. I did some parent volunteering last work with the Kindergarten group and found it to be a lot more fun than I remember scouts being when I was a kid

Came across this thoughtful post from @rubylang.bsky.social about Ruby Gem's (their package manager's approach) for identifying and dealing with supply chain security issues. It's always fascinating to see how other smart people tackle hard problems blog.rubygems.org/2025/08/25/r... #rubylang

VS 2026 Insider is available! Among many other changes, one not so obvious change in that release is the default to `.slnx` format, and the good news is that @platform.uno supports it out of the box! devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio... #dotnet

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here! - Visual Studio Blog

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here – and it marks one of the most ambitious steps forward we’ve taken with the IDE. This release brings AI woven directly into the developer workflow, performance impr...

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Finally got through a fun problem for the upcoming video (a new game mode) that had been tripping me up for a while. Stay tuned for a blog post about how to cancel async tasks in #node and #typescript

In last week's #codealong, we built out a basic math game for my son, J. As you might have guessed, we got some feedback on the game and have some new features to implement. So how do we implement new functionality without taking on technical debt? youtu.be/6AiztXnhfS0 #typescript #codealong

Code Along: Building a Math Game - Part 2

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For this week, I'm trying something a bit different in the videos. It can be fun to show tips and tricks, but one thing I always appreciated was to see how other people think about problems. Interested? Check out the video below and let me know what you think! youtu.be/nbS5-_SONfo #typescript

Code Along: Building a Math Game - Part 1

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Do I know anyone who's a leader or a member of the Pittsburgh .NET User Group or JavaScript group? I'm going to be in the area for Pittsburgh Tech Fest in October and I'd love to present to a user group while I'm in town. #javascript #dotnet #typescript

Anyone have a space in London that the Gleam London meetup can use? Would love somewhere we can have a few short presentations from folks

What a cool game, you should check it out!

Adriaan@adriaan.games · last yr.

oh shit, this is clever UX! as an ex-sailor i learned a lot of knots, would have really enjoyed a game to learn ‘m :)

This worked for me in Chrome, BRILLIANT 15087/10

Alan Baxter@alanbaxter.bsky.social · last yr.

Turn off AI in search results. I just did this in Chrome and it works. tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows

Slightly diminish a band: Ho-hum at the Dance

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Slightly diminish a band: The Clothed and Popular

Excited to see NoVA Code Camp coming back online. I already submitted some sessions, you should check them out! novacodecamp.org #cfp #techcfp

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A FREE community event for developers, by developers.

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When working in #typescript, I love using union types as a way to limit a type to a set of possible values. However, I find myself needing to iterate through those values. In this video, I'll show you how to make that happen using const arrays youtu.be/eqjVojlFwJs?...

Iterating Through Sum Types Using TypeScript

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Looks like the CFP for Atlanta Dev Con is up. I already submitted some sessions, hope to catch you there! www.atldevcon.com sessionize.com/atlanta-deve...

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Good morning! It's Tuesday, August 12th. What's the last board game you played?

While working on my Blackjack course I ran into an issue where some of my cards would be null. Given that I'm leveraging #fp techniques, how is it happening? In this post, we'll walk through the bug and how to use property based testing to check the fix blog.thesoftwarementor.com/articles/202...

A common concept in computing is the byte, a chunk of data is consisting of 8 bits (8 0s and 1s). But what if we had defined a byte to be 9 bits instead? I really enjoyed this write up from Pavel about what could have been. pavpanchekha.com/blog/9bit.html

Hey, let's get some cool stuff on the timeline. Do you have art of your character, either from yourself or commissioned? Show it off here! Please remember to tag your artists (links allowed) if it was commissioned, and keep that AI "art" off of our timeline.

guys do you know anyone in Poland in tech who runs meetups or other communities where they could promote FUN OCaml?

TypeScript recently released v5.9 with some cool changes, however I found that these changes didn't play well with one of my most used tools (ts-node). This post walks you through the issue and options for going forward. blog.thesoftwarementor.com/articles/202... #typescript

Enjoying this conversation with Bob Fornal about how do you get started in automating and improved the quality of your code and pipelines without tackling everything all at once here at #CincyDeliver. So many good insights @leadingedje.com

I'm looking forward to #CincyDeliver on Friday. It's a great event and I'm pumped to be speaking about #functionalprogramming concepts while we solve Mars Rover It's not too late to get tickets, so if you're going to be in Cincinnati, pop by and say hello! www.eventbrite.com/e/cincydeliv...

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Cincinnati's longest-running, non-profit, community event. Sessions focus on delivering value through quality software.

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I've been working in Node and TypeScript for years now and have never sat down to learn how to make your own tooling. For example, I'm a big fan of the gitignore npm package as it quickly scaffolds a gitignore file for your project (as simple as running gitignore node). (1/3)