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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 01/12/2025

For this year's #csadvent, I wrote a post about how you can simplify business logic by using the Model View Update (The Elm Architecture) pattern using basic #functionalprogramming concepts like pure functions and composition. #csharp blog.thesoftwarementor.com/articles/202...

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Reducing Bugs by Using the Model View Update Pattern - The Software Mentor

Reducing Bugs by Using the Model View Update Pattern

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 24/10/2025

Made it to Pittsburgh! I'm looking forward to Pittsburgh Tech Fest tomorrow where I'm giving a condensed version of "The Engineers Playbook: Starting a New Job". This is a great session for both leaders and those who are starting new roles.

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 18/10/2025

Learning about UX and UI Design at NoVA Code Camp with @johnathayde.com

Slide deck that has the text UX and Design for Devs with a subtitle of Elevating our Product Experience

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 18/10/2025

Made it to Reston for NoVA Code Camp! I'm looking forward to speaking about how you can learn the fundamentals of #functionalprogramming by solving a fun problem. If you're attending today, make sure to stop by the 9:30 session and say hi!

Slide deck with title of Learning FP Through Construction: First Principles

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 11/10/2025

All squared away for #ATLDEVCON! If you've recently started a job (or if you're a manager who's hiring people), come check out my session at 10am that goes over my approach for getting up to speed quickly on a new role!

Slide Deck displaying The Engineers Playbook: Starting a New Role written in white text on a salmon colored background

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 23/09/2025

On that note, we had our first pack wide meeting and I was able to award belt loops on eating healthy/being active and how to get ready for a hike. It's rewarding to see Scouts who've never done anything outdoors take their first steps and hang out with other kiddos like them.

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 23/09/2025

For those not aware, I started volunteering with Scouting America (formerly Boy Scouts) and I having a blast leading our first grade Cub Scout den. I did some parent volunteering last work with the Kindergarten group and found it to be a lot more fun than I remember scouts being when I was a kid

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 10/09/2025

Came across this thoughtful post from @rubylang.bsky.social about Ruby Gem's (their package manager's approach) for identifying and dealing with supply chain security issues. It's always fascinating to see how other smart people tackle hard problems blog.rubygems.org/2025/08/25/r... #rubylang

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How RubyGems.org Protects Our Community’s Critical OSS Infrastructure - RubyGems Blog

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Jérôme Laban @jlaban.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

VS 2026 Insider is available! Among many other changes, one not so obvious change in that release is the default to `.slnx` format, and the good news is that @platform.uno supports it out of the box! devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio... #dotnet

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Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here! - Visual Studio Blog

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here – and it marks one of the most ambitious steps forward we’ve taken with the IDE. This release brings AI woven directly into the developer workflow, performance impr...

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 09/09/2025

That's awesome! My son and I are building out some dice trays for his cousins. Love the project build!

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 04/09/2025

Finally got through a fun problem for the upcoming video (a new game mode) that had been tripping me up for a while. Stay tuned for a blog post about how to cancel async tasks in #node and #typescript

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 02/09/2025

In last week's #codealong, we built out a basic math game for my son, J. As you might have guessed, we got some feedback on the game and have some new features to implement. So how do we implement new functionality without taking on technical debt? youtu.be/6AiztXnhfS0 #typescript #codealong

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Code Along: Building a Math Game - Part 2

YouTube video by Small Batch Solutions

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 27/08/2025

For this week, I'm trying something a bit different in the videos. It can be fun to show tips and tricks, but one thing I always appreciated was to see how other people think about problems. Interested? Check out the video below and let me know what you think! youtu.be/nbS5-_SONfo #typescript

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Code Along: Building a Math Game - Part 1

YouTube video by Small Batch Solutions

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 20/08/2025

Do I know anyone who's a leader or a member of the Pittsburgh .NET User Group or JavaScript group? I'm going to be in the area for Pittsburgh Tech Fest in October and I'd love to present to a user group while I'm in town. #javascript #dotnet #typescript

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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 18/08/2025

Anyone have a space in London that the Gleam London meetup can use? Would love somewhere we can have a few short presentations from folks

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 18/08/2025

Ooof, yeah 💯. The thing I remember about exceptions is that they should be for exceptional behavior. So if you are coding control flows around it, that sounds like a need for a Result type instead. Best of luck!

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 18/08/2025

What a cool game, you should check it out!

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18/08/2025

This worked for me in Chrome, BRILLIANT 15087/10

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 14/08/2025

Slightly diminish a band: Ho-hum at the Dance

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 13/08/2025

Excited to see NoVA Code Camp coming back online. I already submitted some sessions, you should check them out! novacodecamp.org #cfp #techcfp

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Northern VA CodeCamp

A FREE community event for developers, by developers.

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 13/08/2025

When working in #typescript, I love using union types as a way to limit a type to a set of possible values. However, I find myself needing to iterate through those values. In this video, I'll show you how to make that happen using const arrays youtu.be/eqjVojlFwJs?...

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Iterating Through Sum Types Using TypeScript

YouTube video by Small Batch Solutions

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 13/08/2025

That's awesome, congrats! What's one thing that's surprised you the most about the journey so far?

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 12/08/2025

Looks like the CFP for Atlanta Dev Con is up. I already submitted some sessions, hope to catch you there! www.atldevcon.com sessionize.com/atlanta-deve...

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Atlanta Developers' Conference

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Lore Link @lorelink.com · 12/08/2025

Good morning! It's Tuesday, August 12th. What's the last board game you played?

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 12/08/2025

Recently played Summer Camp, a delightful deck builder that's a great intro to the genre. Would highly recommend! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/33...

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Summer Camp

Collect cards and earn merit badges to become the ultimate summer camper.

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 11/08/2025

While working on my Blackjack course I ran into an issue where some of my cards would be null. Given that I'm leveraging #fp techniques, how is it happening? In this post, we'll walk through the bug and how to use property based testing to check the fix blog.thesoftwarementor.com/articles/202...

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Testing Non Deterministic Code - Debugging Shuffle with Property Based Testing - The Software Mentor

In this post, I'll show you how I found a bug in my implementation of shuffle using property based testing.

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 08/08/2025

A common concept in computing is the byte, a chunk of data is consisting of 8 bits (8 0s and 1s). But what if we had defined a byte to be 9 bits instead? I really enjoyed this write up from Pavel about what could have been. pavpanchekha.com/blog/9bit.html

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We'd be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes

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Lore Link @lorelink.com · 06/08/2025

Hey, let's get some cool stuff on the timeline. Do you have art of your character, either from yourself or commissioned? Show it off here! Please remember to tag your artists (links allowed) if it was commissioned, and keep that AI "art" off of our timeline.

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sabine 🐫🦀 / "use ocaml"; @sabine.sh · 06/08/2025

guys do you know anyone in Poland in tech who runs meetups or other communities where they could promote FUN OCaml?

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 05/08/2025

TypeScript recently released v5.9 with some cool changes, however I found that these changes didn't play well with one of my most used tools (ts-node). This post walks you through the issue and options for going forward. blog.thesoftwarementor.com/articles/202... #typescript

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Running Single File TypeScript in 5.9 with ts-node and tsx - The Software Mentor

In this post, I show you how to leverage ts-node with the TypeScript 5.9 and the changes to the tsconfig.json file

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 01/08/2025

Enjoying this conversation with Bob Fornal about how do you get started in automating and improved the quality of your code and pipelines without tackling everything all at once here at #CincyDeliver. So many good insights @leadingedje.com

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 30/07/2025

I'm looking forward to #CincyDeliver on Friday. It's a great event and I'm pumped to be speaking about #functionalprogramming concepts while we solve Mars Rover It's not too late to get tickets, so if you're going to be in Cincinnati, pop by and say hello! www.eventbrite.com/e/cincydeliv...

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CincyDeliver 2025

Cincinnati's longest-running, non-profit, community event. Sessions focus on delivering value through quality software.

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 16/07/2025

But how do you create your own? In this post and video, I show you how to create your own Node tool. Video: youtu.be/Cm8T8N1pfnw?... Post: blog.thesoftwarementor.com/articles/202... #TypeScript #Node

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Building A Node Tool From Scratch With TypeScript

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 16/07/2025

I've been working in Node and TypeScript for years now and have never sat down to learn how to make your own tooling. For example, I'm a big fan of the gitignore npm package as it quickly scaffolds a gitignore file for your project (as simple as running gitignore node). (1/3)

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 10/07/2025

While working on a NPM package that's designed to be used globally, I discovered that "gin" is an alias for a PowerShell command (Get-ComputerInfo). Best way of handling conflicts like that is to update your "bin" command to include a namespace (so something like "smallbatch-gin")

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 10/07/2025

When I've worked with engineers in the past, I've found there's a preference for both video and written content. With that in mind, I'm following up the recent video with a blog post on setting up a #Node project with #TypeScript and #Jest configured. blog.thesoftwarementor.com/articles/202...

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Creating a Node Project With TypeScript and Jest From Scratch - The Software Mentor

Creating a Node Project with TypeScript and Jest From Scratch

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 08/07/2025

Thanks Jason! So far, so good 😂

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 08/07/2025

A few months ago, I found myself on the market and started looking for opportunities. After getting a ton of messaging that I was both "too technical" and "not technical enough", I decided to go a different route. For more details, check out this post blog.thesoftwarementor.com/articles/202...

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Career Update and a New Chapter - The Software Mentor

Announcing Small Batch Solutions

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 08/07/2025

Couple of changes since my last post 1. Uploaded my first video to YouTube! If you've ever wanted to create a basic node app from scratch, I'll walk you through from file new to a basic working example youtu.be/mphKoDUiZVg

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Setting Up a Node Project with TypeScript

YouTube video by Cameron Presley

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 25/06/2025

Definitely one of the coolest venues I've ever presented at, thanks for inviting me out!

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Daniel Ward - daninacan @danielwarddev.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Curious about #FunctionalProgramming? Join us next week as @thesoftwarementor.com shows how to make LINQ from scratch! #dotnet 🎤What: Level Up on Functional Programming By Rebuilding LINQ 👨‍🏫Who: Cameron Presley ⌚When: June 26 @ Noon CST 🌐Where: Zoom Signup: www.meetup.com/sadnug/event...

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 10/06/2025

Recently learned that JS has a way of marking something private by using the # symbol. Super helpful when dealing with private fields that you want to expose as public getter properties. blog.thesoftwarementor.com/articles/202...

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Today I Learned - JavaScript Private Fields and Properties - The Software Mentor

TIL - JavaScript private fields and properties

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 01/06/2025

Pleasantly surprised to find that the Lake Norman area has a baseball team, The Harbor Hippos! www.harborhippos.com

A cartoonist hippo, smiling wearing dark sunglasses and a blue hat with a capital H on it

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 29/05/2025

One of my favorite recent stories was talking to an engineer who noticed some anomalies in data that was being collected, only to find out that someone had used AI to do basic math instead of using a tool like Excel to do the computations.

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 28/05/2025

Elm was an early inspiration for me on #functionalprogramming as I found its architecture to be an intuitive way to think about apps. In this post, I walk you through implementing your own version using #typescript and #node blog.thesoftwarementor.com/articles/202...

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Simplifying Console Logic with the Model-View-Update - The Software Mentor

Implementing Model View Update in TypeScript

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 28/05/2025

Working on the Udemy course and I'm blown away by the great artwork that @reverentgeek.com did! It looks great and will absolutely help me stand out. If you dig his style, why not work with him on your project? He's awesome!

Set of playing cards with TypeScript TS on the back, an Ace of Spades and 10 of Hearts showing and a stack of black poker chips with a white lambda symbol on a green background

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 24/05/2025

This was a brand new talk for me and the CapArea group was terrific! If you've been interested in learning how to design code where bugs are less likely to occur, give it a watch and let me know what you think!

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 21/05/2025

Today has been a fun one! While working on the Udemy course, I decided to use the Model-View-Update pattern for the game loop and it worked out nicely! There are some parts to clean up, but it yielded easy to read/maintain code. Will need to noodle on it a bit more to get it in a blog post format.

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