Ben Yorke

I've been building Single Page Applications for clients over the past 5 years. I've used Backbone, Knockout, Ember, Angular, React, and build SPA Frameworks myself. I've worked full stack, doing Node.js development, writing ORMs, and full blown Express applications.

I've recently started using Clojure professionally, taking it from a hobby tool to a power tool. There's a lot to learn in Clojure, and I love teaching people about all of it's new and exciting concepts: Functional Programming, Immutable Data, Transducers, Generative Testing, Specs, and so much more.

I've been using vim as my primary editor for many years now, and have done so because I'm insanely productive in it. It's a very lightweight editor with some mind-bendingly powerful principles. I don't think anyone can ever rate themselves 10/10 when it comes to vim, since you never really stop learning, but I'd like to think I'm pretty darn close! ;)

Ever since I ventured out of C++ land and learned scripting/dynamic languages, I've felt increasingly empowered by learning functional programming. Functional programming goes far beyond passing functions, and gives you the tools to make guarantees about your code, so it can stay concise, legible, and most importantly, bug free.

I've been using React since it was released, and have been using it every day since. I've read through and contributed to the core code, followed along with the latest trends, and used a wide variety of different libraries.

I've been using TMUX since I started using vi, and have found ways to augment any developers terminal expirience with a very minimal usage of TMUX

I've built a number of webpack build flows for a wide range of applications, including custom loaders, webpack plugins, and development servers.