Dan Vanderkam·Mar 24, 2021Advent of Code 2020 (this time in Rust)My notes on 2020’s Advent of Code, and my experience of learning Rust while doing it.
Dan Vanderkam·Feb 10, 2020GitHub Stars and the h-index: A JourneyStarring a repo on GitHub is an easy way to tell its author that you appreciate their work. It only takes one click!A response icon2A response icon2
Dan Vanderkam·Jan 4, 2020Python Tips & Tricks for the Advent of Code 2019I signed up for the Advent of Code after a coworker of mine mentioned that he was doing it. I was instantly hooked on collecting gold…A response icon1A response icon1
InHackerNoon.combyDan Vanderkam·Jun 7, 2018Testing Types: An Introduction to dtslintDoes something look odd about this unit test?A response icon3A response icon3
InSidewalk TalkbyDan Vanderkam·Mar 20, 2018Explore Toronto through historical photos — one block at a timeThe open-source, open-data Old Toronto map tool can help locals discover things they didn’t know about the city’s past.
InNetscapebyDan Vanderkam·Aug 22, 2017Async Iterators: These Promises Are Killing My Performance!Update from 2023: Node’s performance with async iterators has improved considerably since this post was written in 2017. See the…A response icon11A response icon11
Dan Vanderkam·Mar 30, 2017A typed chain: exploring the limits of TypeScriptUpdate (2020): it is now possible to correctly type _.chain by overloading the type of this on the wrapper interface. This is how the…A response icon4A response icon4
InSidewalk TalkbyDan Vanderkam·Feb 23, 2017New map demo: How the L train shutdown will impact your commuteOur NYC Transit Explorer shows how long it takes to get anywhere in the city by bus or subway. Even during L-mageddon.
Dan Vanderkam·Dec 26, 2016A Typed pluck: exploring TypeScript 2.1’s mapped typesOne of underscore.js’s most useful methods is _.pluck. It takes an array of objects and "plucks" one property out of each, returning an…
