Author Brian Holt

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Brian Holt is a front-end developer living in Vancouver, Canada, focused on scalable design systems. His background includes working on large Ruby on Rails apps with React + Redux front-ends and teaching User Experience design. Currently, he’s infatuated with Elm and functional programming, TypeScript, and Serverless. And he’s always in search of tacos and bourbon sours.

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Building A Serverless Contact Form For Your Static Site

May 2, 2018 — With the help of this article, you will finally be able to learn the basics of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda and Simple Email Service (SES) APIs to help you build your own static site mailer on the Serverless Framework. Let’s get started! Read More…

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Learning Elm From A Drum Sequencer (Part 2)

January 18, 2018 — In part two of this two-part series, Brian Holt explains why large refactors are easy by using the Elm Compiler, how to handle side-effects, and how to work with JavaScript. Read More…

Brian Holt wrote

Learning Elm From A Drum Sequencer (Part 1)

January 11, 2018 — In part one of this two-part series, Brian Holt introduces Elm’s syntax, setup, and core concepts. Learn how to work with the Elm architecture in order to create simple applications. Read More…