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Brandon Buck

📍 Austin, TX

Demystifying Generator Functions

Generator Functions are a feature of modern JavaScript that may seem like some mysterious force of nature. You may have seen them used for a variety of things, one of the first times I saw them in use was with redux-saga, and after working to figure out just what the

Leverage Redux State Selectors

The biggest aspect of working with Redux is the structure of your state. It can make or break an application. An overly complex and highly duplicated state can end up slowing down/bogging down your application. Not necessarily in noticeable runtime decreases but a decrease in the speed at which

My Argument for GraphQL

Today I want to express my reasonings for getting on board the GraphQL bandwagon. This is nothing new, I've been a fan for at least the last two years, I even tried selling it in an interview. Well, now I'm putting my thoughts out there so I have a resource

Emoji as a Language

To begin, let me state that I'm not a fan of Emoji, I don't use them often (I do use some standard Emoji to communicate things in Slack, but outside of that practically none); however, I'm obsessed with odd little things that provide no real benefit to humanity. One of

Git Tips - Ignoring Files Locally During a Development Session

I have a habit (maybe a bad one) of occasionally making local changes to a file I never intend to commit. These can vary wildly in purpose. Maybe there is an error because a file that exists in production doesn't exist and I'm too lazy to pull that file down

Starting Fresh -- Now with Ghost!

If anyone of you have been reading my posts up to this point, this shouldn't surprise you at all. I'd like to defend myself if I could. Just for a moment. Blogging is supposed to be fun. It's my way of 'talking' for fun and and it's (hopefully) going to

Eleetscript Struts it's Alpha Goodness and General Awesome

Hmm, it's been quite some time since my last update. I should work on trying my best to resolve that. Well either way, a lot has happened in the life of EleetScript since the days of your (you know, October of last year). As of my writing this the latest

Eleetscript.first

An EleetScript update. Following the previous blogpost about my ventures into interpreters for an existing esoteric language and my plans to jump right into hosted scripting language development I thought I'd delve further into ideas and implementations for EleetScript (formerly EleetScript). My desire when building this language is very specific