Corbin Crutchley

crutchcorn

Staff Frontend Engineer | GitHub Star | Microsoft MVP | Playful Programming Partner | TanStack Maintainer

277 followers

Playful Programming is now a non-profit! 🎉Even when we were called "Unicorn Utterances", we've always strived to do the right thing and keep dev education free, accessible, and inclusive. Now we have a structured organization to keep us focused on these goals.I couldn't be more excited.

playfulprogramming

01/27/25

It's true — after many years as operating without a formal organization backing our efforts: Playful Programming is now a California Non-Profit.This will further propel our efforts to create engaging learning resources and bring others into software development!

A ribbon being cut with a scissor with the title "Playful Programming is now a non-profit!"

crutchcorn

12/01/24

I am beyond elated to announce that I am officially a Microsoft MVP! 😭💖I am so honored to receive this award - I stand amongst giants in the field and for that I am humbled. 🙏Thank you to everyone who's helped me along this journey ✨🚀

"You’ve been accepted to the Microsoft MVP program. Corbin Crutchley, We’re pleased to welcome you to the Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) program in recognition of your outstanding contributions to the community in following technical area/s: Web Development"

crutchcorn

11/13/24

Potentially hot Angular take:I suspect we will see Pipes deprecated and suggested against using in favor of `computed()` now that we have a primitive for derived data sets.What do you think?

crutchcorn

11/13/24

Currently in the middle of a migration of a standalone zero-signals Angular project to be 100% signals based.It's ~10,000 LOC.Anyone wanna bet what the final time-to-migration is? I have my suspicions... 🤔

crutchcorn

11/10/24

The more of my book I migrate to Angular signals, the more impressed I am with how seamless of a migration most of my components are.While the signals paradigm is different, a correct mental model can see migrations done easily and with much nicer DX/performance.Love it!!!

crutchcorn

11/07/24

Our search page is awesome. Not only is the UX incredible thanks to

@edpratti

's work, but now we support semantic search through Orama.We're super glad we partnered with them to make this a reality!

playfulprogramming

11/07/24

🔍 Our search experience just got a whole lot better.Playful Programming is partnering with Orama to bring a conversational search experience to our users.Now you can type natural queries and we will give you all the results we can find!To learn more about the changes and the great benefits of this new integration, please head over to our newest article below!

buff.ly

crutchcorn

11/05/24

I made my first PR to Vite! 😄github.com/vitej…

fix: vite build now works with broken symlink in public by crutchcorn · Pull Request #18592 · vitejs/vite

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fix: vite build now works with broken symlink in public by crutchcorn · Pull Request #18592 · vitejs/vite

crutchcorn

11/04/24

We authentically have so much to announce

@playfulprogramming

that we have the next few weeks' posts booked out...Excited to share it with you all! Follow that account to see what we're cooking.😄

crutchcorn

11/04/24

Updated my site to include more of the platforms I'm on:crutchcorn.dev

Before only had GitHub, Twitter, and Twitch. Now it includes LinkedIn, Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky

crutchcorn

11/03/24

Working on an article about using a no-bundle solution for JS apps. Thus far I mention:- JSDoc + TypeScript + ESLint - "HMR" - Import maps - CDNs - PNPM vendor install path - node_modules aliasing - Tooling choices - Bundling deps w/ many files to single ESM file (lol)What else am I missing?

crutchcorn

11/02/24

I wrote an article that explains what signals are in a visual and interactive way.In it, we build our own implementation of signals from the very basics all the way to a basic glitch-free implementation!Check it out:

playfulprogramming

11/02/24

New article!Signals are seemingly everywhere today, which begs the question: What are they?In their most basic form, signals are a method of having some state and a way of subscribing to that state.

The signal stores values and sends updates to listeners. Then a setter can update the store using some API and the listeners recieves notifications of signal state changes.

crutchcorn

10/28/24

We're here at Day 0 of GitHub Universe!It's been awesome chatting with the other Stars and prepping for the main conf!

crutchcorn

10/24/24

We're a little late, but yesterday we discovered two "good first issue"s for the community to contribute towards!Come join us, make a difference, and boost your portfolio!

playfulprogramming

10/24/24

🎃 October may be slowing down, but Hacktoberfast is speeding up! 🎃Wanna join us on upgrading Playful Programming? Become a contributor today!We have two issues folks can pick up, and we'd love to get some help on them!Issues will be listed below!

A banner with several little unicorn illustrations along with role badges for contributors! The headline reads "Playful Programming would like you to join us for Hacktoberfest!"

crutchcorn

10/19/24

More CSS only animations!

crutchcorn

10/18/24

I wrote a whole demo of an Angular game using the new `resource` and `linkedSignal` APIs.The crazy part? Not a single `effect` or even `signal` function usage! 🤯The Angular team is doing an AMAZING job at adding new valuable primitives!

What pokemon has the ID of 920? "abomasnow" in a select menu. "Your guess is abomasnow? Nope! It's lokix" with a "Restart" button present

crutchcorn

10/18/24

Full code demo here:github.com/crutc…

GitHub - crutchcorn/ng-linked-signal-and-resource-demo: A demo of Angular's upcoming linkedSignal and resource APIs

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GitHub - crutchcorn/ng-linked-signal-and-resource-demo: A demo of Angular's upcoming linkedSignal and resource APIs