The fourth edition of Node.js Design Patterns is here. As one of the authors, I share why we wrote a new edition, what's new, and my thoughts on where Node.js is heading.
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18 Dec 2025
24 Apr 2023
As a rule, book reviews are not a thing I usually do. So when I received an out-of-the-blue email from Cory Doctorow last week asking if I would review his latest book, Red Team Blues, it took a minute to overcome my initial skepticism. While I’m a fan of Cory’s work, this is a narrow/nerdy … Continue reading Book Review:…
22 Mar 2022
Mi Reseña Luego de casi quince años de trabajar, enseñar y difundir Erlang por el mundo, recién hace unos pocos días tuve la posibilidad de leer mi primer libro sobre Erlang en castellano . Se trata del libro que da título a este artículo y está escrito por Manuel Rubio . Aquí van mis opiniones… Sí, el libro en papel…
14 Jul 2021
Just a quick post with some updates around books and related events… Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs: MEAP update In June, I posted about the book that Tomasz Lelek and I are writing. (Well, Tomasz is doing the bulk of the work – only two of the thirteen chapters are by me, but I’ll take any … Continue reading Book updates…
11 Jun 2021
I’m delighted to announce that I’ve been hard at work contributing to a new book. The book is called “Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs: How to make good programming decisions” and the principal author is Tomasz Lelek. The book was Tomasz’s idea, and he’s written the vast majority of the material, but I’ve contributed a chapter … Continue reading New book:…
27 Mar 2021
Readers of my site may have noticed the many references to Guy Debord in my writing over the years, and especially since 2016. This is largely because I’ve been writing a new edition of his 1967 book The Society of the Spectacle adapted for our present moment. This edition is out now on the web. A hardcover edition will be…
31 Jul 2016
The author announces the release of "Node.js design patterns - second edition", a new book covering design patterns for Node.js and JavaScript. It includes updated code for Node v6 and ES2015 across 11 chapters and 100+ examples.
6 Nov 2014
This post has a few purposes – it’s partly a bit of advertising, but it’s also meant to serve as a quick way of replying to speaking requests for a while… if you’ve been directed here by an email from me, I hope you’ll excuse the “form letter” approach. (You can probably skip down to … Continue reading Writing and…
20 May 2013
Resources: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Play Books The book’s web site (O’Reilly) – downloads, errata etc A while ago I was attending one of the Developer, Developer, Developer conference in Reading, and I heard Alex Davies give a talk about actors and async. He mentioned that he was in the process of writing a short … Continue reading Book Review:…