I recently launched a rewrite and redesign of this personal website, I figured I'd talk a bit about the changes and new features that I added along the way!

A quick tip to implementing CSS theming that's compatible with Server Side Rendered applications!

A brief overview on how we launched The Bikeshed Podcast, including a deep dive in our recording and distribution workflows!

Recently Dropbox announced that it was shutting down the Capture app/service, so I sought out an alternative that provided a similar user experience!

A quick tip outlining how to provide specific TypeScript type definitions for a local module!

Some rough thoughts on building a file-system routing based web application

Slicing software: why vertical is better than horizontal.

A quick look at combining Cursor with Obsidian to ask questions of your notes!

What if you could author an entire web application in a single file?

Is it a good or a bad thing to offload writing code to AI agents and Large Language Models?

A quick way to handle resetting internal state in components when a parent form is submitted!

You don't need to wait until January 1st to set yearly goals and resolutions for yourself!

A snippet of some shared terminology/concepts (memes) from my time on the Frontend Platform team at Wayfair!

A brief look at Import Maps and package.json#imports to support isomorphic JavaScript applications!

A collection of tech talks that I regularly re-watch and also recommend to everyone!

Some features and functionality that I'd like within a React Server Component compatible framework.

A quick update on how I manage my tasks within Obsidian!

A (running) collection of Bluesky tips, tools, packages, and other misc things!

A quick look at a small but powerful pattern I've been leveraging as of late!

How to generate a custom Ghostty theme based on any iterm2 theme!

A proposal for a minimal variant of TypeScript!

Sharing a few core recommendations when working within monorepos to make your life easier!

A rough mental model for how you should be leveraging AI as a tool for your own growth

This is a quick post noting that Next.js should now work with Deno v2!

Even more thoughts on dogfooding!

The secret to excellent product teams is using your own product, and often!

(Ab)using Git as yet another tool for thought!

React components have a fundamental contract that is often unstated in their implementation, and you should know about it!

Replace that old useState and useEffect combo for a new and better option!

A quick recap of my goals from the past year and a few goals looking forward as well.

A brief overview of how I manage my tasks in Obsidian

A quick look at the applications and tools that I (generally) use day to day for web development!

Previously I wrote about switching from Obsidian to Notion, now almost exactly 2 years later, I've opted to give Obsidian another try as my go-to note taking software, here's why!

There are a variety of different markdown "standards" out there, and sometimes they're not all that consistent

Proposing a solution for sharing core "business" logic across services!

There's a common gotcha when creating Web Request and Response instances with Headers!

Feature toggles are often underused by most software development teams, and yet offer so much value during not only feature development but also refactors

The other week was my last week at Wayfair, rounding out almost 8 years at the company. I wanted to reflect a bit on my time there!

A quick introduction to my new side project, hohoro. An incremental JS/TS library build tool!

webpack, and tools built on it like Next.js, don't support true dynamic imports, but I found a way to trick the system!

I've been using a variety of AI tools as of late, I figured I'd document the ones I'm primarily using!

I've started to use Cloudflare to manage my domains for several side projects, have had to jump through the same hooks multiple times that I figured I should document them here!

Revising my previous blog post on React Error Boundaries and my preferred go-to implementation!

How to easily mass-export your custom slack emoji without API access!

Two neat tricks for enhancing your site's favicon!

The various risks and pitfalls of open source software run by corporations.

A monorepo template for managing a library and documentation together.

How we solved an almost show-stopping production bug, and how you can avoid it in your own projects.

A(nother) deep dive into one of my recent side projects; tails - a plain and simple cocktail recipe app.

When did semver major changes become so scary?

Leveraging service monitors properly to improve service observability.

A brief recap of how Wayfair changed it's CSS approach not once but twice in the span of 5 years!

It's fine for a library to express some opinions about how it should be adopted and how the overall workflow/application in which it is adopted should function. However, it's false advertising to say that it is unopinionated.

No I don't mean those Milano cookies you keep taking from the office snack wall either (although you should probably stop snacking on those as often as well).

Low/no process workflow wasn't actually no process, it was only an "invisible" process. An implicit contract with everyone on the team to do that async workflow on their own time.

Zed language server quick tip; fixing Zed's language server

A deep dive into one of my recent side projects; microfibre - a minimal text posting application

Pair programming can be good sometimes - but not all the time

A few thoughts on using Suspense with GraphQL to optimize application data loading

A few thoughts on the article "Reality has a surprising amount of detail"

A quick log of what I have been up to in October

A few thoughts on what to do after you launch a new project

A few photos from my summer trip!

A few quick thoughts on burn out and taking a break

A few thoughts on managing complex UI component state within React

A quick overview of the new lifecycle methods introduced in React 16.3

A recap and update on some of the projects I am working on at the start of 2018

A few thoughts and patterns for using styled-jsx or other CSS-in-JS solutions

A few thoughts on the redesign of my personal site, adopting Next.js and deploying via Now

A few weird things about JavaScript

Building a calendar web application