Blog

March 9, 2023

Did you know there's an entire field of computer science barely yet explored? Join me at the entrance to a deep rabbit hole as we take a look at Robust-First Computation.

March 1, 2023

In development, we have "code smells." Extending the metaphor, here are some design smells that devs can pick up on as well.

February 27, 2023

A quick write up on how Astro made it very easy to track page reads in Cloudflare KV.

February 25, 2023

Let's look at how expectations can be used as an explicit device to improve work and working relationships.

February 24, 2023

Developer experience has ramped up in focus over the last few years as a way to increase platform adoption and developer productivity. Here are the features I think make for a good DX.

February 15, 2023

Processes and systems are often built with extreme flexibility in mind, but let's look at the case for at least considering not generalizing them for the sake of it.

February 13, 2023

After years of honing my leadership style, I've landed on a one-on-one format that I quite like. Here's a deep dive into it.

February 11, 2023

As someone who has been wanting to do a podcast but not having time for it. Blogcasting seems like a great middle-ground solution.

February 10, 2023

Astro 2.0 just landed, and with it some great new features including Content Collections. Let's have a look!

January 29, 2023

Are you a company looking to build a new website? As someone who built company websites for many years, I think you should consider not going with another WordPress site.

November 18, 2022

Applying context to websites often lives tied to content, or tied to the front end, or split into both. Here I propose building a new contextual layer separate from both.

October 10, 2022

What eats at our code? A quick explorative rambling of why we have to maintain and invest in all code and digital systems.

July 13, 2022

A lot of focus remains on success and failure as traits of progress, but I've learned that it's really momentum that you should keep your eye on.

June 17, 2022

Third-party frameworks and systems abstract away complexity, but often at the cost of flexibility. Escape hatches can be a great way to bring flexibility back without compromising features.

June 14, 2022

It feels really great to get over a hard hurdle. But don't stop there, do it again.

June 7, 2022

More than once I've written some snazzy JavaScript code that I want to quickly turn into a sharable library, but the process of how to easily do that has bogged me down enough to drop the idea entirely. Here's a look at using vite to quickly publish your code as a JavaScript Library.

May 31, 2022

Sometimes you need that little extra spark to go down a new pathway or face the unknown. When you're grasping for that push, do it for context.

May 29, 2022

Here's a practical look at using html2canvas to generate images for blog posts. You might be looking at said image right now!

May 24, 2022

Rather than having to completely rely on the client to render your content when you want to make it interactive or functional, progressively enhance it with petite-vue.

May 20, 2022

Reframing how you think about work toward a perspective of helping the folks around you can spread positive change at multiple levels.

May 19, 2022

Two things about web accessibility that we need to stop letting hold us back.

May 17, 2022

How do you sprinkle in interactive elements? For many of us it used to be jQuery, and now maybe it's vanilla JS or you've graduated up to a larger framework like React, Vue or Svelte. Here's my case for why you ought to take a look at petite-vue.

May 16, 2022

If you had to build a website right now, get started right away, what web technologies are you reaching for?

May 13, 2022

Divergent and convergent mindsets play a critical role in how I think of ideas and uncover solutions to problems. Here's a bit about why they're so useful to me.

May 12, 2022

Have you ever thought about the web having a fourth major, native language? Here are a few of my thoughts on it.

May 10, 2022

Ever hit the issue where you want numbered items to alphabetically order themselves numerically, so you lead them with zeros, which works until you have more digits than zeros. Leximited notation solves this issue, and then some!

May 9, 2022

A quick riff on an idea that has stuck with me for a bit and can really help if you lean into it.

May 6, 2022

Cloudflare Workers (Edge Functions) and their specialized KV product are the perfect tool to create a quick little API with persistent state.

May 5, 2022

Don't get stuck for too long thinking about, just go ahead and throw it.

May 4, 2022

A quick take on one of Jamstack's biggest hurdles it has yet to fully overcome: previewing content.

May 3, 2022

Let's get a surface-level view of edge functions: what they are, what they're good for, and how you can get started with them

April 30, 2022

Hello World! This is my first post on my new website and blog. Like and subscribe folks!