When we’re trying to speed up some part of our code, we want quick, targeted feedback about how our changes perform against the initial implementation. It’s common practice to write a microbenchmark: a small program that runs just the code you’re interested in and measures how well it performs. But be warned: microbenchmarks are fraught with peril, even for experts.

How do tools that grew up on the desktop, like Ember, Angular and React, make the jump to the mobile future?

Two weeks ago at EmberConf, we announced Glimmer.js, a component-based library for writing superfast web applications. In the demo video, we use TypeScript to write our Glimmer components. Some people have been asking, what’s the deal? Have we turned our backs on JavaScript and embraced our new TypeScript overlords?

I’m very excited to share that I’ve joined LinkedIn as a full-time employee.