Professional Opinions – Carter-Embry Family https://carterembry.com est 2016 Wed, 03 Sep 2025 16:27:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://carterembry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ce32.png Professional Opinions – Carter-Embry Family https://carterembry.com 32 32 Adopting TypeScript at Scale (or changing the wheels on a moving bus) https://carterembry.com/2025/adopting-typescript-at-scale/%20 https://carterembry.com/2025/adopting-typescript-at-scale/%20#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:00:03 +0000 http://carterembry.com/?p=21454 Meme of a couple walking together. His significant other has "Javascript" written across her, while the other woman has "Typescript" written across her. The man is looking over his shoulder at the other woman (Typescript) indicating she has taken his attention.

Hi friends! It's me, Daniel. If you know me IRL, you've probably heard me blather at length about something JavaScript related. My first professional programming job was almost all Vanilla JavaScript so I've loved JS for a long time. Unlike some folks, I find its quirks and eccentricities endearing. Prototypal inheritance is a bit wacky […]]]> https://carterembry.com/2025/adopting-typescript-at-scale/%20/feed 1 Add Web Workers to create-react-app using Parcel (eject not required) https://carterembry.com/2023/web-workers-react-app-parcel-wo-eject/%20 Fri, 08 Sep 2023 20:54:30 +0000 http://carterembry.com/?p=18074

I've been working on FidgetMap for a while now. I think I could speed up a lot of processes (including the basic render loop) by adding Web Workers to handle a lot of the rendering tasks asynchronously. The whole game is drawn by writing RGB data to arrays then compositing them onto a canvas, so […]]]> 36|86 Entrepreneurship Festival https://carterembry.com/2018/3686-entrepreneurship-festival/%20 Tue, 04 Sep 2018 19:02:22 +0000 http://carterembry.com//?p=10410

Wednesday and Thursday of last week I had the opportunity to attend the 36|86 Entrepreneur Festival by Launch Tennessee here in downtown Nashville. I attended several panels and met with a few Angel & VC investors. It was overall a great event and a wonderful per experience. My first session, Building Your Brand Smarter, was at […]]]> Creating Flexible and Reusable React File Uploaders https://carterembry.com/2018/creating-flexible-and-reusable-react-file-uploaders/%20 Fri, 17 Aug 2018 14:10:14 +0000 http://carterembry.com//?p=10330

Daniel was recently featured in the Eventbrite Engineering blog and we're very proud of the work he does there. The Event Creation team at Eventbrite needed a React based image uploader that would provide flexibility while presenting a straightforward user interface. The image uploader components ought to work in a variety of scenarios as reusable […]]]>