Coding

Photo by Ramiro Mendes

Switch your cross-platform CI to GitHub Actions in 5 minutes

If you maintain an open source project that’s hosted on GitHub, and you’re frustrated by one or more of your current continuous integration (CI) providers, good news: GitHub Actions is a free CI service that supports running tests and other tasks on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

If Something is Odd, Inappropriate, Confusing, or Boring, It Is Probably Important.

That guy smiling at you is my Dad, David McEachen. He taught English Literature to a surprisingly large portion of the teenagers growing up in Santa Barbara from 1965 to 2004.

Uncertain, lazy, forgetful, & impatient: It’s what you want your code to be.

While building PhotoStructure, which is written in TypeScript, I found myself missing a bunch of Scala-isms. Character trait #1: Unabashed uncertainty One of the first bits I missed from Scala was the Option monad.