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Frank M. Taylor
@paceaux
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I like Jesus & Mensches, clean code & #node, subtle jokes & linguist folks, playing guitars and Oxford commas.
Ok, a blog post for the #linguist types.
Or maybe the types of folks who wonder what makes French so "frenchy" or English so "Englishy".
It's about the look and song of a language.
https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/02/24/the-look-and-song-of-language/
The Song of Language
Everyone speaks at least one language. It’s fascinating how we learned that first language, too. Without any formal instruction, we heard it, repeated it, and found ourselves effective communicators within about seven years. And in that time, we learned what our language sounded like, too. Language is merely words seeking their melodies Even if weRead More
TypeScript is C# for people with commitment issues.
First article of the new year:
Cheap State management that can persist beyond the session.
#FrontEndDevelopment
#WebDevelopment
https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/01/27/introducing-cheapstate/
Introducing CheapState
Sometimes we don't want to use a full-blown SPA. And sometimes when we don't want that full-blown SPA, we do want some SPA-like features likes maybe state management attached to some small element of the User Interface. I ran into this kind of situation at Red Hat last year, and I want to share howRead More
I wrote an angry rant on my blog and that got me more connections to real human people on LinkedIn that 3 years of actually being on LinkedIn.
Which says something about the power of a swear-filled rant.
Apparently my rant about #FrontEnd dev started making some rounds on the web before I got a chance to even properly share it.
Now I'm curious what folks on here have to say.
https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2024/06/20/a-rant-about-front-end-development/
A Rant about Front-end Development
I am a front-end developer who is FED up about front-end development. If you write front-end, this isn't about you personally. It's about how your choices make me angry. Also this is about how my choices have made me angry. Also this is mostly just about choices, the technologies are incidental. Note: The views expressedRead More
Not for nothing but if the US makes it to a 2028 presidential election it would be stellar if our options were born closer to the creation of the internet than the abolition of slavery.
I made a thing for analyzing text in weird ways. Any linguists interested in n-grams, bigrams, etc might dig it.
https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2024/02/19/introducing-methodius/
Introducing Methodius
Folks who get to know me usually (and regrettably) discover that I am a language nerd. I like learning languages and I like learning about languages. There's all sorts of things that are fascinating about languages: where they come from, why they sound a certain way, why grammar is what it is. But lately, I'veRead More
Lots of writing on the web sucks. And that's because writing well is hard.
And I have some thoughts on why that is.
https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2023/12/21/why-writing-well-is-really-hard/
(Why) Writing (well) is really hard
In 2023 where servers are cheap and platforms are free, it's ridiculously easy for anyone to set up a blog and start flinging words at the web. You can become a "blogger" in the time it takes for Starbucks to make your low-fat half soy milk decaf mocha cherry mint latte frappuccino. There's no oneRead More
One of the hardest things about being a web developer for any extended period of time isn't the therapy you need to cope.
It's the fact that you have to explain technology to your therapist and in doing so you see the light dim behind their eyes