Kasey Speakman articles - 60 total
Event Sourcing - Stream Metadata
Discovering the need for stream metadata. One of the best uses of Event Sourcing is to manage...
Shareholder Value: the Other Pandemic
This post was inspired by Nvidia's recent announcement of the RTX 3090 TI. With its expected MSRP of...
Desktop apps in HTML and F#
I created a starter desktop app using HTML/CSS/F# for the front end and F# .NET for the back end. All...
Readable vs Workable Code
Balancing some code to be readable yet workable. Today I was coding and decided to refactor some...
Organizing MVU Projects
Strategies for organizing large Model-View-Update projects that have worked for us. We have been...
Entity Component System - an old new thing
Structured Programming rediscovered and honed for game development. I've been looking into game dev...
Static vs Dynamic Typing for ADHD
Static typing has boring overhead but it augments my brain's limited working memory. The PH...
ADHD: The Grief of Discovery
Mourning the loss of the person I might have been. This is a followup to I have ADHD 🌧️. There is a...
I have ADHD 🌧️
I am pathologically incapable of performing uninteresting tasks. And I hate myself for it. First I s...
Clojure validation in 30 lines
A function composition approach to validation. In the previous post, I offered some critique of the...
Validation approaches in Clojure
Classifying the different approaches I've seen and some of their trade-offs. Lately I have been stru...
Life after Elm: What we did
It's been just over 2 years since I wrote Elm 0.19 Broke Us 💔. Where did we go from there and how did...
You are being manipulated
I wish this were a click-bait title. Sadly not. It is also not trying to push you into a political pa...
ClojureScript MVU routing
Routing had some hurdles to overcome. This adventure in ClojureScript MVU has me wrestling with the...
Handler registration vs function wiring
Ahoy, trade-offs ahead. When surveying UI frameworks and libraries, the vast majority of them use ha...
ClojureScript async MVU
Going async wasn't so bad... Last time, I removed the traditional MVU init function from the synchro...
ClojureScript simple MVU loop refined
In dynamic languages, it turns out the MVU init function is unnecessary. In the previous article I d...
ClojureScript simple MVU loop
In a previous article, I setup a ClojureScript dev environment in a container with VS Code. Update:...
Why Clojure?
The language is the compiler. What could go wrong? If you are braced for a hard sell of Clojure then...
ClojureScript dev env in a container w/ VS Code
Documenting how I setup ClojureScript dev environment in a container for my future self. VS Code has...
Clojure JVM tooling overview?
I am interested in playing with ClojureScript for a personal project. And server-side or desktop Cloj...
Testable Back-end Programming in F#
A way to write extremely testable code with side effects. It has always been a challenge to write te...
Evolution of Business Software
How you approach developing software changes with the maturity of the business. I recently had a goo...
I Wrote Redundant Code with Apology Comment
Today I wrote redundant code with apology comment, and it was the right thing to do. Here is a piece...
Category Theory is Object-Oriented
Object-oriented programming and category-theory-based functional programming both emphasize encapsula...
Had to use browser detection like its 1999
Today, I regretfully confess that I used browser detection for some back-end code. In this installmen...
Is there a solid fork of .NET Core CLI without data collection?
Just curious if anyone knows of one that is commonly accepted. My brief searches didn't turn up anyth...
Event Sourcing - Cyclic Streams
In working on a new product, I made a new (to me) discovery -- cyclic streams. It is actually not a n...
Things that happen in relationships are the things that matter.
You might assume I'm going to talk about fluffy philosophical things. But this is about designing sol...
Why use WCF?
I was reading through the comments on this amazing MS announcement. Introducing .NET 5 Amongst them...