Charles Lowell

Charles has been delivering bullet-proof software for over 18 years. An avid contributor to open source, he founded the Frontside in 2005 to help businesses deliver game-changing user interfaces to their customers. Also, he really, really, really, really likes to code. Really.

• Twitter: cowboyd
• GitHub: cowboyd

Blog Posts

• Learning Javascript from the Command Line
• Live Stylesheets
• Taming the Rhino
• Trans-Global Pair Programming
• mod_rewrite: Remeber that the version counts
• Patiently waiting for JavaFX
• Please Stop Using Global Variables in Ruby
• In Search of a Better Autogrowing Textfield
• RYE: Repeat Yourself Enough
• We must come together to honor the command line
• Accessing Javascript Objects from Ruby
• Wrapping each Hudson distribution in its own RubyGem
• What it takes to bring Ruby to Jenkins
• Ruby for Jenkins Goes Pre-Alpha
• The Ruby Racer isn't threadsafe... yet.
• Implementing a Jenkins Extension Point with the Native Java API inside a Ruby Plugin
• The Ruby Racer Rides Again
• Functional Templating in Ember
• React Native and Chill: A tale of stupid made fast
• One Helpful Way to Think About JavaScript Decorators
• Math is Just Another Framework
• Functional Rephrasing Using an Async Function Functor
• Four reasons to use append() instead of Object.assign() and Object spread
• Beyond Mocking: Decoupling teams through Simulation
• The Triple Threat to Testing — Part 1: Speed
• The Triple Threat to Testing — Part 2: Reliability
• Interactors: the design systems testing ally

Podcast Episodes

• OpenTelemetry with Austin Parker
• Paying Open Source Contributors with Puneet Lath
• Product Roadmaps and Tooling Planning with Steve Pereira
• Data, Trust, and Transparency: A COVID-19 Vaccine Story
• Type systems with ReasonML London organizer Marcel Cutts and Shane Wilson
• Intro to Rush.js with co-author Pete Gonzales
• Big Ideas & The Future at The Frontside
• Transparent Development
• Svelte and Reactivity with Rich Harris
• Security with Philippe De Ryck
• An Analysis of NativeScript Mobile Platform
• Deployment with Luke Melia, Aaron Chambers, and Mattia Gheda
• Pull Requests with Joe LeBlanc
• Frontend/Backend Team Collaboration with Sam Joseph
• Team Collaboration with Jacob Stoebel
• What’s in a UI platform?
• 117: The Frontside Podcast 2019 Reboot Preview
• 115: Testing Issues and BigTest Solutions
• 114: The Business Case for Experimentation with Elm with Dillon Kearns
• 113: There and Back Again: A Quest For Simplicity with Philip Poots
• 112: Language Formation with Amanda Hickman and Amberley Romo
• 111: Accessibility in Single Page Applications
• 110: Mentorship 3.0 with Saron Yitbarek
• 109: What Do You Need in a JavaScript Framework?
• 107: Microstates Part II
• 106: Microstates
• 105: Automating GitHub with Probot
• 102: FOLIO with Harry Kaplanian
• 101: Fullstack / Backend / Frontend: What’s the Difference?
• 100: 100th Episode Celebration with Brandon Hays
• 099: Funcadelic with Taras Mankovski
• 098: Experience First Development
• 097: Language Server Protocol with Erich Gamma and Dirk Baeumer
• 096: Outside-In Development
• 094: Machine Learning with Katharine Beaumont
• 093: Monoids, Monoids Everywhere! with Julie Moronuki
• 092: Venture Capital and Investing with Sam Cates
• 091: RxJS with Ben Lesh and Tracy Lee
• 090: Big Testing in JavaScript
• 088: The Craft of Developer Experience with Kaylie Kwon
• 087: The JSON API and Orbit.js with Dan Gebhardt
• 086: Routing in Ember with Alex Matchneer
• 085: WebAssembly with Jay Phelps
• 084: redux-observables with Jay Phelps
• 083: Learn Haskell, Think Less
• 082: Peeple with Chris Chuter
• 081: Knocki with John Boyd
• 079: Web Security and Keeping Developers on the Cutting Edge via Trainings and Workshops with Mike North
• 078: Kasita with Jeff Wilson and Jason Jaynes
• 077: The Internet of Things Cometh
• 076: "Devsigners" with Drew Covi
• 075: Babel with Robert Jackson
• 074: Mission Driven Businesses with Anissa Willyard
• 073: Summer Interlude
• 072: Single Page Apps with Accessibility in Mind with Kris Van Houten
• 071: Labor Organizing and Open Source Sustainability with Audrey Eschright
• 070: Kubernetes with Joe Beda
• 069: Redux Part II with Toran Billups
• 068: How We Do UI Testing Here at The Frontside
• 067: ember-concurrency with Alex Matchneer
• 066: 10 Pounds of Dirt in a 5 Pound Sack with Michael Coté
• 065: Data Loading Patterns with the JSON API with Balint Erdi
• 064: Empathy in Sales with Ginger Whalen
• 062: UI for U and I
• 061: Accessibility with Marcy Sutton
• 060: Ember and Fastboot with Jonathan Jackson
• 059: Build Useless Stuff
• 057: Demystifying Software with Liz Baillie
• 056: Ember vs. Elm: The Showdown with Philip Poots
• 055: Redux and Ember with Toran Billups
• 054: The Ember Ecosystem & ember-try with Katie Gengler
• 053: Glimmer 2 with Godfrey Chan
• 052: Emberitas with Lydia Guarino and Shannon Byrne
• 051: Rust and APIs with Steve Klabnik
• 050: Learning to Program with Kyle Simpson
• 048: Farewell, Brandon
• 047: Taking Payments on the Web with Noel Rappin
• 045: The New Theory of Teams with Sarah Mei
• 043: Growing Communities and Businesses with Leah Silber
• 042: Apprenticeship in Real Life with Taras Mankovski and Lennex Zinyando
• 041: The Technical Skills of a Senior Dev
• 040: How We're Refactoring Our Business
• 039: How to Integrate Jr. Developers Into Your Company
• 038: EmberConf 2016 - Recap and Highlights
• 036: Composable UI with Trek Glowacki
• 035: How We Hire
• 034: What We Learned in 2015
• 033: Immutability
• 032: Working Remotely with Allison McMillan
• 031: Family and Programming Life Balance with Mando Escamilla
• 030: Building Great Communities with Jamie White
• 029: Ember & "Big OSS" with Robert Jackson
• 028: Open Source, UX, and Ember with Trek Glowacki
• 027: Communication at Work
• 026: What is a Senior Developer?
• 025: Getting to Ember 2.0 with Matthew Beale
• 024: Overcoming Impostor Syndrome
• 023: Ember Islands with Mitch Lloyd
• 022: Deploy to the Future with Luke Melia
• 021: Best of EmberConf 2015 (part 2)
• 020: Best of EmberConf 2015 (part 1)
• 019: Origin Stories with Tom Dale and Alex Matchneer
• 017: Hiring Junior Developers: The Ukelele Method
• 016: Ember 2.0 and the Indie Web with Yehuda Katz and Tom Dale
• 014: Literally everything we learned in 2014
• 012: Is it OK to not love programming? (with Sarah Mei)
• 011: Hype Cycles and Reprogramming Your Brain
• 010: Reactive Modeling with Ember
• 009: How to tell if a jQuery plugin is about to stab you
• 008: The Brandon Hays Advice Dispensary
• 007: The Ember Router (with Alex Matchneer)
• 006: Myth of the Lone Genius Programmer
• 005: Backbone, Ember, and the "build your own Voltron" bias
• 004: EmberConf Recap
• 003: Refactoring toward Ember
• 002: Devil's Advocate
• 001: Hit me baby one more time