Hi, I'm Blake Williams

I’m a Principal Engineer at GitHub based in Boston building Ruby, Go, and React apps at scale. I care deeply about simplicity, multiplying the impact of others, and building the right thing.

Start Simple

March 21st, 2016

Setting Up Webpack for React and Hot Module Replacement

June 19th, 2015

Replace CoffeeScript with ES6

January 30th, 2015

From Ember-Rails to Ember CLI

January 9th, 2015

Playing with Elixir and Erlang

February 26th, 2014

I’ve always been interested in playing with functional programming in my spare time. I’ve tried out a few different flavors such as Clojure, Erlang, Haskell, and OCaml but never really found myself sticking to one or really getting to know any of them really well. Lately I’ve been playing with Elixir and Erlang together and have fallen in love with them.