Mark Grealish

the life and code of a crazy cat man

This is my life meow

in animals

I’m a Cookie cot.

I'm a Cookie cot

Like three times worse

in code

Overheard today at work:

God keeps killing unicorns.

This is worse than kill_orphans.

Vanilla JavaScript method to map an array to a callback

in code

I am being so productive today.

function map(arr, callback) {
    return !arr.length ? [] : [].concat(callback(arr[0]), map(arr.slice(1), callback));
}

Spanish Point Eadaoin

in family

Taken at Maria and Adrian’s wedding in September 2016. :)

Hotness Incarnate

Disapproving Cookie

in animals

I don’t know why I feel so judged, but I do.

Unhappy Cookie on a window sill

“Hello world!” from elm

in code

I am teaching myself functional programming and MV JavaScript applications by way of Elm. Although Elm has so far managed to wreck my head, parts of it have begun to be less opaque.

/tooting intensifies

import Html exposing (Html, text, div, button, h3)
import Html.App exposing (beginnerProgram)
import Html.Events exposing (onClick)

main =
  beginnerProgram { model = model, view = view, update = update }

-- Model

type alias Model = { content: String }

model : Model
model = { content = "Click a button to see a message!" }

-- Update

type Msg = Hello | Goodbye

update : Msg -> Model -> Model
update msg model =
  case msg of
    Hello -> { model | content = "Hello world!" }
    Goodbye -> { model | content = "Goodbye world!" }

-- View

view : Model -> Html Msg
view model =
  div [] 
    [ h3 [] [ text model.content ]
    , button [ onClick Hello ] [ text "Hello" ]
    , button [ onClick Goodbye ] [ text "Goodbye" ]
    ]