A teal-lit home workspace with a ruby gem and Mac mini beside the monitor
A place to make things, learn things, and have fun.
Tom Leskin

Front-end engineer & lifelong tinkerer

Hi! I’m Tom

I build for the web and write about the joy of making things.

This is my little corner of the internet for ideas about software, creativity, and the tools that make us curious. I like building useful things, revisiting old favorites, and remembering that making things should be fun.

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The Binary Journal

6 posts
ember

Ember reading materials, including a free book

Learning a new concept or even a JavaScript framework can be hard. It’s even harder if the documentation isn’t that beginner friendly. Although that isn’t really the case...

4 min read

ember

Finding records with Ember Data

One of the concepts I didn’t completely understand when initially learning Ember were the different methods that can be called on models to retrieve records from the Ember...

4 min read

coding

Exploring the MEAN Stack

One of the things that I love about Turing is the fact that the program and its instructors try to turn us into extremely diverse developers. One way...

2 min read