Michael Whatcott - 2021
Here's what I wrote in 2021:
- 20 Mar 2021 ~ The Atoning Power of Jesus Christ
- The ordinance of the Sacrament is an important way for us to receive the Savior's power!
- 15 May 2021 ~ gunit vs. testify
- Surprisingly similar on the surface...
- 25 Jun 2021 ~ Go Test Helpers
- Just a few suggestions.
- 28 Jun 2021 ~ Faith and Fairness
- We'd like more of both, but when fairness feels fleeting, we can always exercise our faith!
- 11 Jul 2021 ~ Hearts Knit Together In Unity
- ...and in love one towards another
- 2 Aug 2021 ~ Clean Coders: Resident Apprentice
- I'm now a resident apprentice at Clean Coders Studio!
- 2 Aug 2021 ~ Let's Go Bowling!
- Learning something new? Try bowling with it...
- 2 Aug 2021 ~ Getting Started with 'speclj'
- Just a 'speclj' of tests here and there...
- 3 Aug 2021 ~ Functional Bowling Game Kata
- (as opposed to...disfunctional bowling game kata?)
- 4 Aug 2021 ~ Threading Speclj Assertions
- Just a crazy idea
- 5 Aug 2021 ~ Prime Number Iteration
- An effective, but not overly complicated, solution.
- 6 Aug 2021 ~ List vs Vector
- Round 1...FIGHT!
- 9 Aug 2021 ~ Destructuring in API Design
- Applying destructuring to smooth out helper methods.
- 10 Aug 2021 ~ Extract Till You Drop
- How to go about extracting functions isn't always obvious at first.
- 11 Aug 2021 ~ The Bowling Game Kata in Clojure
- My variation on a theme by Robert C. Martin
- 12 Aug 2021 ~ SOLID: The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
- Software entities should have only one reason to change.
- 12 Aug 2021 ~ SOLID: The Open/Closed Principle (OCP)
- Software entities should be 'open for extension but closed for modification'.
- 12 Aug 2021 ~ SOLID: The Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP)
- Subtypes must be substitutable for their base types.
- 12 Aug 2021 ~ SOLID: The Interface Segration Principle (ISP)
- Clients should not be forced to depend on methods they do not use.
- 12 Aug 2021 ~ SOLID: The Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP)
- High level policy should depend on abstractions rather than low-level implementations.
- 16 Aug 2021 ~ Working with Grids in Clojure
- My head hurts.
- 17 Aug 2021 ~ The Prime Factors Kata in Clojure
- With music by Bach*, Beethoven, and Brahams, all performed by Michael Whatcott
- 18 Aug 2021 ~ Manual Vertical Code Alignment in Clojure
- ...if you're into that sort of thing.
- 18 Aug 2021 ~ Manual Vertical Code Alignment
- Just a little bit here and there can really spruce up the place.
- 19 Aug 2021 ~ KISS: Keep It Simple, Smarty!
- Smart people keep things simple.
- 20 Aug 2021 ~ Mocking With Speclj
- A phrase which here means "designing functional code to be more testable".
- 23 Aug 2021 ~ Clojure Maps as Functions
- Just a little Monday morning 'ah-hah!'
- 24 Aug 2021 ~ Managing GUI Screens with Quil
- It's all just data.
- 25 Aug 2021 ~ When the going gets 'gui'...
- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- 26 Aug 2021 ~ "Tic-Tac-Toe! 4-in-a-row!"
- That's how it goes, right?
- 27 Aug 2021 ~ A Lapse in Discipline
- Has this ever happened to you?
- 27 Aug 2021 ~ Clojure Map Keys as Functions
- A twist on a previous post.
- 30 Aug 2021 ~ Filtering Set Intersections In Clojure
- A convenient little trick!
- 30 Aug 2021 ~ When everything is a 'one-liner'
- It's no wonder so many programmers are hesitant to adopt the functional paradigm!
- 31 Aug 2021 ~ Back in the groove
- Ah, much better!
- 1 Sep 2021 ~ Mocking External Library Functions in Clojure + Speclj
- I'm finally 'grok'-ing the approach!
- 2 Sep 2021 ~ Inverting 'If' Statements in Clojure
- How about a little code golf?
- 3 Sep 2021 ~ The "Game of Life" Kata in Clojure
- Along with a case for using random inputs in certain testing scenarios.
- 7 Sep 2021 ~ Threading Through Map Keys in Clojure
- An alternative to the `get-in` function.
- 8 Sep 2021 ~ Mocking Without Dependency Inversion
- Just a few thoughts and musings.
- 9 Sep 2021 ~ The Open-Closed Principle, for GUIs
- Remember, systems should be open for extension and closed for modification.
- 10 Sep 2021 ~ "In the Wisdom of Him Who Knoweth All Things"
- The Fall of Adam and Eve is a nuanced example of the infinite wisdom that permeates Heavenly Father's Plan of Redemption!
- 10 Sep 2021 ~ Simplifications
- It's amazing how often we assume that things should be more complicated than needed.
- 13 Sep 2021 ~ "If the Savior Stood Beside Me"
- (Spoiler Alert: He actually already does!)
- 14 Sep 2021 ~ Contrast
- Java: equal parts comforting and clunky.
- 15 Sep 2021 ~ Another Layer
- The fundamental theorem of software engineering in action
- 16 Sep 2021 ~ Nifty Bits of Java
- Mostly discovered via Intellij's very helpful suggestions.
- 20 Sep 2021 ~ Double-brace Initialization in Java Considered Harmful
- ...to garbage collectors and kittens.
- 21 Sep 2021 ~ 'Threading' a Pedagogical Needle (part 1)
- IMHO, threading macros should be introduced started with `as->`.
- 22 Sep 2021 ~ 'Print-line' Debugging with the 'Thread-as' Macro
- Yet another plug for my new friend: `as->`
- 22 Sep 2021 ~ 'Threading' a Pedagogical Needle (part 2)
- IMHO, let's introduce threading as a variation on the `let` form.
- 24 Sep 2021 ~ Getting Started with ClojureScript
- Is this a really tricky thing, or was it just me?
- 29 Sep 2021 ~ Getting Started Test-driving ClojureScript
- Q. So, when does it get easier? A. Right now!
- 30 Sep 2021 ~ Keywords with Hiccup
- Isn't it nice when a hunch turns out to be a supported feature?
- 1 Oct 2021 ~ 'Partial' String Formatting in Clojure
- The 'partial' function effectively creates constants from incomplete function calls!
- 4 Oct 2021 ~ Mapping over multiple collections in Clojure
- The map function maps 'n' collections to functions that recieve 'n' arguments.
- 8 Oct 2021 ~ Sometimes Coding in Clojure Feels like Cheating
- (maniacal laughing in background)
- 11 Oct 2021 ~ Apply vs. Reduce
- When they are the same, and when they are different.
- 12 Oct 2021 ~ Generating Random Alphanumeric Codes in Clojure
- Just a fun assortment of functional building blocks!
- 13 Oct 2021 ~ Your (Recursive) Loop Needs Reducing
- Mind == Blown!
- 14 Oct 2021 ~ Solving Problems in Clojure
- Just a few little functional adventures.
- 15 Oct 2021 ~ Clojure Reader Dispatch Overload
- Also, how to return a collection literal from an anonymous function literal.
- 15 Oct 2021 ~ Counting Frequencies In Clojure
- "There's a function for that"
- 15 Oct 2021 ~ Benchmarking Clojure Code, Part 1
- My first Clojure macro!
- 18 Oct 2021 ~ Brute Force vs. Indexing
- Shorter + Faster = Win-win
- 19 Oct 2021 ~ An Apostle's Prayerful Pattern
- Elder David A. Bednar's consistent invitation to us throughout the years.
- 19 Oct 2021 ~ Map Merging in Clojure
- How to combine various kinds of data into maps.
- 20 Oct 2021 ~ Vectors: last vs peek
- Why it's important to understand the defining characteristics of data structures.
- 21 Oct 2021 ~ 'Partial' Predicates in Clojure
- Honestly, I'm still on the fence with this one.
- 22 Oct 2021 ~ Benchmarking Clojure Code, Part 2
- My first Clojure library!
- 25 Oct 2021 ~ Let's talk about Clojure's 'if-let' form
- The if-let and when-let forms are mini violations of SRP!
- 26 Oct 2021 ~ Clojure's 'comp' and 'juxt' functions
- Just a few illustrative examples.
- 3 Nov 2021 ~ I'm a Clean Coder!
- The apprenticeship was a wonderfully intense period of growth and learning.
- 7 Nov 2021 ~ "Make Time for the Lord"
- Thoughts on President Russell M. Nelson's latest general conference talk.
- 19 Nov 2021 ~ "Unto such it shall be given"
- Disciples of Jesus Christ are given great promises.
- 21 Nov 2021 ~ The Simple Terms of Eternal Life
- Familiar scriptures, restructured to expose a common theme
- 29 Nov 2021 ~ With His Stripes We Are Healed
- Messianic passages are sometimes just as much about *us* as they are about Jesus!
- 18 Dec 2021 ~ "The Family"
- A Proclamation to the World by the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, cross-referenced with the scriptures.
- 18 Dec 2021 ~ Scripture Scavenger Hunt
- Just a little something constructive for youth on Sabbath afternoon...
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