Posts from 2023

• 2023-12-31 The Books I Read in 2023

  2023 was the year I had my second shoulder surgery (torn rotator cuff). This prevented me from doing a lot of things this year, including reading books. I didn’t get a good night’s sleep for about 6 months after the surgery. I found it hard to concentrate on reading in the evenings (when I normally read) because I was too damn tired.

  Here is the list of the books I did manage to read and a brief mention of the effect they had on me.

• 2023-10-01 Functional C#, No More Nulls

  What if you decided to remove nulls from C#. What would that look like?

• 2023-09-24 Unit Testing is Design Testing

  This is going to be a short post that I put here to remind me in the future of an insight I read this past week.

• 2023-09-16 Functional C#, Revisited

  A few years ago I dipped my toes into the world of functional programming in C#. Let’s revisit that idea.

• 2023-01-10 Unsound TypeScript

  Recently the team I work with has debated the unsound behaviors of TypeScript. I wanted to explore 3 areas where this has occurred for me in a recent project.

• 2023-01-08 Unsound C#

  Recently the team I work with has debated the unsound behaviors of TypeScript. It got me thinking about what that means with respect to C#. Let’s explore.