Kirk Shillingford

Full Stack Functional Programmer focused on Accessibility, Testing, and Documentation/Technical Writing. Trying to be less clever and more kind. He/Him

Alberta, Canada Joined on Mar 26, 2018 tkshillinz@icloud.com https://github.com/tkshill

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B.E. in Environmental Engineering, CUNY

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Community Manager at Virtual Coffee

Arctype

Virtual Coffee

Quarto

A working example of the Quarto board game using Elm and Netlify. An exploration of game development, OSS, and functional programming.

Elm • 15 stars

protein-translation

exercism protein-translation problem in Haskell

Jupyter Notebook • 4 stars

Typescript, Elm, F#, SQL, Python, C#, .NET, Visual Basic for Applications

Haskell, More Work On Parsers, Git Fu

https://github.com/tkshill/Quarto, https://virtualcoffee.io/

Domain Modelling, Functional First Design, SQL Server and MySQL Database scripting and architecture. Typescript and React Native. Python, Elm, .NET

12 posts published

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Kirk Shillingford

Nov 29 '21

Semantics, Not Syntax; Developer empowerment using functional-first programming

#fsharp #functional #typescript #rust

118

11 min read

Kirk Shillingford

Dec 24 '22

From Script to Scaffold in F#

#showdev #fsharp #beginners #adventofcode

9 min read

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Kirk Shillingford

Nov 16 '22

Scripting with VSCode Tasks and Typescript

#typescript #node #vscode #tutorial

10 min read

Kirk Shillingford

Nov 10 '22

Revealing Compound Types in Typescript

#typescript #programming #generic

5 min read

Kirk Shillingford

Nov 17 '21

Talking technique: Recognizing context for cleaner design

#javascript #functional #programming #beginners

9 min read

Kirk Shillingford

Nov 2 '21

A Most Magic TicTacToe solution with React and TS

#react #typescript #gamedev #maths

11 min read

Kirk Shillingford

Oct 11 '21

Reduce in 5 Minutes

#typescript #javascript #functional #beginners

5 min read

Kirk Shillingford

Apr 7 '21

Solving the Dominoes problem with Graph Theory and Typescript

#typescript #exercism #algorithms #graphtheory

11 min read

Kirk Shillingford

Mar 30 '21

Solving the Dominoes Exercism Problems with Active Patterns in F#

#fsharp #exercism #codereview #practice

7 min read

Kirk Shillingford

Mar 22 '21

Solving the Protein Translator problem using F# and FParsec

#fsharp #fparsec #exercism #practice

6 min read

Kirk Shillingford

Mar 17 '21

7 Tech Talks That Actually Made A Difference

#devjournal #resources #development #strategy

6 min read

Kirk Shillingford for Arctype

Mar 17 '21

Database Security Checklist for Small Teams

#security #database #systems #devops

103

15 min read

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Semantics, Not Syntax; Developer empowerment using functional-first programming

From Script to Scaffold in F#

Want to connect with Kirk Shillingford?

Scripting with VSCode Tasks and Typescript

Revealing Compound Types in Typescript

Talking technique: Recognizing context for cleaner design

A Most Magic TicTacToe solution with React and TS

Reduce in 5 Minutes

Solving the Dominoes problem with Graph Theory and Typescript

Solving the Dominoes Exercism Problems with Active Patterns in F#

Solving the Protein Translator problem using F# and FParsec

7 Tech Talks That Actually Made A Difference

Database Security Checklist for Small Teams