• I am the founder of Hyperfiddle, a serious software modeling tool for rapid development of operational cloud applications that scale. For example, use Hyperfiddle to develop, operate and scale a serious gig economy business.
• My long-term mission is to help people collaborate at scale with the structure and frequency of software. The first step in this is to tame runaway complexity in today’s incomprehensible information systems.
• I work on Photon, a distributed and reactive dialect of Clojure/Script with compiler-managed network. Photon is interesting because it can express a client/server web application as a single distributed process (not two processes). Imagine React.js but full stack, incremental view maintenance all the way from database views to DOM views, as one streaming computation.
• Previously, I managed a team of 10 responsible for a HIPAA-compliant cloud application that measures data integrity in Medicaid records as they flow through private -> state -> federal data warehouses.

Essays

• You don't need a web framework, you need a web language (2021)

Quotes I love

Talks

• 2018 REST FEST – The Quest for a General Hypermedia Client
• 2018 Clojadelphia – The structure of CRUD apps
• 2017 Scala PHASE – Datomic: functional programming in the database
• 2017 Scala PHASE – Hyperfiddle – a Hypermedia Function
• 2017 ClojureNYC – Datomic, and the failures of REST, hypermedia and ORM
• 2016 LibertyJS – Composable UI
• 2016 LibertyJS – Intro to ClojureScript, coding workshop
• 2016 Clojadelphia – Intro to ClojureScript, coding workshop
• 2016 LambdaConf – What would happen if REST were immutable?
• 2015 Clojadelphia – Eliminating I/O concerns with immutability
• 2015 Scala PHASE – Rethinking webapp best practices around immutability
• 2015 DatomicConf – What Datomic does to REST
• 2014 Philly JS – Workshop: React.js and Functional Javascript, with Daniel Miladinov
• 2014 QCon NYC – Functional Programming on the Front-end with React.js
• 2013 Philly ETE – Livecoding a webapp in both Clojure and Scala, with Jason Feingold
• 2012 Strange Loop – Monads in python
• 2011 Avoid callback hell: a practical introduction to continuations