Software Engineer, CXO at @TheFrontside
Joined August 2013
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Taras Mankovski retweeted
Kotlin, Swift, Python 3.11, and Java 21 all ship it, and Go has libraries to implement it. This is why JavaScript needs Structured Concurrency
frontside.com/effection/blog…
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19 Nov 2025
I’m excited to share: Freestyle Testing — a place where I will share what @cowboyd and I learned about building shift-test harnesses that developers actually love.
freestyletesting.org/introdu…
#testing #shiftleft
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Taras Mankovski retweeted
26 Mar 2025
Here's something you can't replicate in Javascript without effection.
#effection #structuredconcurrency
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Taras Mankovski retweeted
5 Feb 2025
🚨 Flaky test suites hurt teams, products, users, and businesses.
Graybox testing promises balance—but too often, it turns into a "Frankenbox".
🔎 Why does graybox testing fall short—and what’s a better approach?
Read more: frontside.com/blog/2025-02-0…
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Taras Mankovski retweeted
9 Jul 2024
🚀 Milestone Alert! 🚀
Effection, our structured concurrency library at Frontside, has hit 500 GitHub stars! 🌟
Huge thanks to our amazing community, clients, and partners.
Check out Effection now: frontside.com/effection/
#Effection #structuredConcurrency
ALT Image blue background, various sized stars, and GitHub logo with text "congratulations effection - structured concurrency and effects for javascript, 500 Github stars"
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16 May 2024
Effection - structured concurrency for JavaScript library crossed 500⭐️ on GitHub today. It's a small milestone on a bigger journey to bring Structured Concurrency to the JavaScript runtime. github.com/thefrontside/effe…
Great work @cowboyd and all contributors!
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Taras Mankovski retweeted
27 Mar 2024
Did you miss @cowboyd teaching us about Effection live on LWJ?
No worries! Watch highlights from the episode here, then check out the full episode replay learnwithjason.dev/fixing-as…
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Taras Mankovski retweeted
20 Mar 2024
My article on the fatal flaw's of JavaScript's Promise-based async/await syntax was translated into Korean velog.io/@sehyunny/await-eve…
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24 Mar 2024
What book on storytelling in technical leadership would you recommend?
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24 Mar 2024
Bamboozlement would be a criminal offence if my dog was in charge.
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Taras Mankovski retweeted
21 Mar 2024
🔴 LIVE — want to learn something that feels *super* smart to say ("structured concurrency") that also has extremely practical applications in your apps?
it's a learning double whammy with @cowboyd today!
(link in next tweet)
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Taras Mankovski retweeted
21 Mar 2024
I'm about to live stream about Effection on Learn with Jason today youtube.com/live/N4PP-vwxCuw… Should be a lot of fun!
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Taras Mankovski retweeted
13 Feb 2024
Concurrency is often difficult to manage because code diverges from intuition. What makes Structured Concurrency so powerful is that it connects them back together such that code can follow directly from intuition.
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Taras Mankovski retweeted
13 Feb 2024
tree shook (adjective): feeling the devastation of opening the dev console only to find that your app's javascript bundle exceeds 5MB
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25 Jan 2024
Words I never thought I'd hear: "I never missed Jira as much as I do using Notion"
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Taras Mankovski retweeted
16 Jan 2024
"Co-routines are to state machines what recursion is to stacks" eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/0…
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Taras Mankovski retweeted
28 Dec 2023
A very good outline of why it’s important to know what async/await is doing behind the scenes. Also, generator functions are awesome.
“The await event horizon in JavaScript”
by @cowboyd
frontside.com/blog/2023-12-1…
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