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  • AI

    • Onboarding Your New AI Teammate
    • Cursor and Obsidian
  • The AI Development Conundrum
  • Offload Complexity, Don't Offload Learning
  • My Current AI Stack
  • AI Driven Development
  • Push vs Pull AI

  • Web Development

    • Onboarding Your New AI Teammate
    • Quick Tip - Theme Aware Images
    • Async Class Creation In JavaScript
    • Website Redesign v10
    • Server Side Rendering Compatible CSS Theming
    • Podcasting By Hand
    • Quick Tip - Specific Local Module Declarations
    • On File-System Routing Conventions
    • You're Building Software Wrong
    • Single File Web Apps
    • Resetting Controlled Components in Forms
    • A Quick Look at Import Maps
    • Recommended Tech Talks
    • Request for a (minimal) RSC Framework
    • Bluesky Tips and Tools
    • The Bookkeeping Pattern
    • TSLite
    • Monorepo Tips and Tricks
    • Next.js with Deno v2
    • Don't Break the Implicit Prop Contract
    • A Better useSSR Implementation
    • My Current Dev Setup
    • There Is No Standard Markdown
    • Abstract Your API

  • Development

    • Onboarding Your New AI Teammate
    • Tip: GitHub Created Date Filtering
    • Progressive Identifiers
    • Roundup Notes in Obsidian with Dataview
    • Quick Tip - Theme Aware Images
    • Website Redesign v10
    • Quick Tip - Specific Local Module Declarations
    • You're Building Software Wrong
    • Single File Web Apps
    • The AI Development Conundrum
    • A Quick Look at Import Maps
    • Recommended Tech Talks
    • Request for a (minimal) RSC Framework
    • Bluesky Tips and Tools
    • Building a Custom Ghostty Theme
    • Offload Complexity, Don't Offload Learning
    • More Thoughts on Dogfooding
    • Dogfooding
    • Git Notes as a Tool for Thought
    • My Current Dev Setup
    • There Is No Standard Markdown
    • Tip: Request and Response Headers
    • Using Feature Toggles to De-risk Refactors
    • Hohoro
    • Funport: True Dynamic Imports in webpack

  • Software Development

    • Onboarding Your New AI Teammate
    • Polish is Important
    • You're Building Software Wrong

  • Thoughts

    • Things Leaders Should Never Do
    • In Review - I, Robot
    • Build Momentum
    • On Taste
    • Leaving Wayfair
    • Write it down
    • The Squeeze
    • Learning
    • Starting Fresh
    • Redesign v6
    • My New Website
    • Pull Quotes
    • Redesign v5
    • Redesign
    • 10,000 Characters
    • Blogging vs Working
    • A New Look

  • Leaders

    • Things Leaders Should Never Do

  • Teams

    • Things Leaders Should Never Do
    • Zombie Retros
    • Team Memes
    • No Process is Invisible Process
    • Teams and Caterpillar Tracks
    • Speedbumps
    • A Note on Consistency

  • Culture

    • Things Leaders Should Never Do
    • Zombie Retros
    • Team Memes

  • Organizations

    • Things Leaders Should Never Do
    • Team Memes
    • Speedbumps

  • Career

    • Things Leaders Should Never Do
    • Offload Complexity, Don't Offload Learning
    • Leaving Wayfair
    • A New Resume

  • Work

    • Things Leaders Should Never Do
    • Leaving Wayfair
    • The Squeeze

  • Evergreen

    • Things Leaders Should Never Do

  • micropost

    • Tip: Secrets for Cloudflare Workers
    • Tip: GitHub Created Date Filtering
    • Link: Next.js Is Infuriating
    • Dependabot Hell
    • Link: What the hell is going on right now?
    • Recipe: Horchata Protein Latte
    • Zombie Retros
    • Link: How I build software quickly
    • Vacation (and streaks)
    • Polish is Important
    • <Blank> Driven Development
    • All Documentation Should Be Dated
    • Adding Microposts
    • Service Monitors and Observability
    • Type Safe process.env
    • Consistent Local Ports with Wrangler
    • Being Unopinionated
    • Stop Snacking
    • No Process is Invisible Process
    • Jabs and Fluff: On CTO Office Hours
    • Finding React Artifacts
    • Deno
    • Fast Feedback Systems
    • Video Games
    • Delete it

  • Cloudflare

    • Tip: Secrets for Cloudflare Workers
    • Configuring Cloudflare Domains with Vercel
    • Project Deep Dive: Tails
    • Consistent Local Ports with Wrangler
    • Project Deep Dive: Microfibre

  • workers

    • Tip: Secrets for Cloudflare Workers

  • wrangler

    • Tip: Secrets for Cloudflare Workers

  • Tip

    • Tip: Secrets for Cloudflare Workers
    • Tip: GitHub Created Date Filtering
    • Roundup Notes in Obsidian with Dataview
    • Quick Tip - Theme Aware Images
    • Async Class Creation In JavaScript
    • Server Side Rendering Compatible CSS Theming
    • Replacing Dropbox Capture with Raycast
    • Quick Tip - Specific Local Module Declarations
    • Bluesky Tips and Tools
    • The Bookkeeping Pattern
    • Don't Break the Implicit Prop Contract
    • A Better useSSR Implementation
    • Tip: Request and Response Headers
    • Exporting Custom Slack Emoji
    • Custom Favicon Recipes
    • Fixing Zed's language server
    • Updating Forked Repos

  • GitHub

    • Tip: GitHub Created Date Filtering
    • New GitHub Scams

  • Book Review

    • In Review - I, Robot

  • Books

    • In Review - I, Robot

  • snippet

    • Progressive Identifiers
    • Quick Git
    • Multi-step Native HTML Forms
    • Git Co-Authorship
    • useInterval

  • JavaScript

    • Progressive Identifiers
    • Async Class Creation In JavaScript
    • The Bookkeeping Pattern
    • TSLite
    • Array Chunking
    • useConsole
    • Understanding React 16.3 Updates
    • CSS in JS
    • JavaScript Weirdness

  • Product Review

    • In Review - The Nuphy Air75 V3
    • In Review - The Belroy Transit Workpack Pro v2

  • Gear

    • In Review - The Nuphy Air75 V3
    • In Review - The Belroy Transit Workpack Pro v2

  • Keyboard

    • In Review - The Nuphy Air75 V3

  • Random

    • Build Momentum
    • On Taste
    • 31
    • Team Memes
    • 30
    • Idea: Distributable Web Apps
    • 29
    • Fractal Refactoring
    • 10x Engineers

  • Opinion

    • Build Momentum
    • On File-System Routing Conventions
    • The AI Development Conundrum

  • Links

    • Link: Next.js Is Infuriating
    • Link: What the hell is going on right now?
    • Link: How I build software quickly

  • Git

    • Quick Git
    • Git Co-Authorship
    • Git Notes as a Tool for Thought
    • Go To Git Utils
    • Updating Forked Repos

  • Bash

    • Quick Git

  • recipe

    • Recipe: Horchata Protein Latte

  • Birthday

    • 31
    • 30
    • 29

  • Goal

    • 31
    • Thoughts on New Years Resolutions

  • Resolutions

    • 31
    • Thoughts on New Years Resolutions
    • 30
    • 29
    • 2021: Resolutions

  • Travel

    • Vacation (and streaks)
    • Summer 2019 - Bend Oregon
    • Summer 2018 Trip

  • HTML

    • Multi-step Native HTML Forms

  • React

    • Multi-step Native HTML Forms
    • useInterval
    • Server Side Rendering Compatible CSS Theming
    • Resetting Controlled Components in Forms
    • Request for a (minimal) RSC Framework
    • Don't Break the Implicit Prop Contract
    • A Better useSSR Implementation
    • React Error Boundaries: Revisited
    • Using Marquee with React and TypeScript
    • My Two Favorite React Tricks
    • React Testing Library: Checkboxes and events
    • useConsole
    • Stateful Providers
    • Theme First UI Development
    • useReducer, don't useState
    • Hooks Tips Ep. 2 - Migrating Instance Variables
    • Hooks Tips Ep. 1 - The Dependency Array
    • React Error Boundaries
    • Suspense Plus GraphQL
    • Managing Complex UI Component State
    • Understanding React 16.3 Updates

  • Obsidian

    • Roundup Notes in Obsidian with Dataview
    • Cursor and Obsidian
    • My Updated Obsidian Task Management
    • Simple Obsidian Task Management
    • Switching back to Obsidian
    • Switching back to Notion
    • Roll your own Obsidian sync

  • Note Taking

    • Roundup Notes in Obsidian with Dataview
    • My Updated Obsidian Task Management
    • Simple Obsidian Task Management
    • Switching back to Obsidian
    • On Note Taking
    • Switching back to Notion

  • TypeScript

    • Async Class Creation In JavaScript
    • Quick Tip - Specific Local Module Declarations
    • The Bookkeeping Pattern
    • TSLite
    • Hohoro
    • Type Safe process.env
    • Using Marquee with React and TypeScript

  • Backpack

    • In Review - The Belroy Transit Workpack Pro v2

  • Review

    • In Review - The Belroy Transit Workpack Pro v2
    • Switching to iPhone

  • Redesign

    • Website Redesign v10
    • Starting Fresh
    • Redesign v6
    • My New Website
    • Redesign v5
    • Redesign
    • A New Look

  • Theming

    • Server Side Rendering Compatible CSS Theming

  • CSS

    • Server Side Rendering Compatible CSS Theming
    • My Thoughts on Tailwind
    • CSS in JS
    • The Great CSS Debate
    • Attribute Selectors

  • Next.js

    • Server Side Rendering Compatible CSS Theming
    • On File-System Routing Conventions
    • The Bookkeeping Pattern
    • Next.js with Deno v2
    • Using Feature Toggles to De-risk Refactors
    • Funport: True Dynamic Imports in webpack
    • Project Deep Dive: Tails
    • Project Deep Dive: Microfibre
    • Setting up Next.js with Tailwind
    • Setting up Shiki on Next.js
    • My Updated Next.js Setup
    • My Opinionated Next.js Setup
    • Redesign v6

  • Waku

    • Server Side Rendering Compatible CSS Theming

  • Podcasting

    • Podcasting By Hand

  • The Bikeshed Pod

    • Podcasting By Hand

  • Dropbox

    • Replacing Dropbox Capture with Raycast
    • Roll your own Obsidian sync

  • Raycast

    • Replacing Dropbox Capture with Raycast

  • Tools

    • Replacing Dropbox Capture with Raycast
    • My Current Dev Setup

  • Node.js

    • Quick Tip - Specific Local Module Declarations
    • A Quick Look at Import Maps

  • Garbanzo

    • On File-System Routing Conventions

  • Personal Knowledge Management

    • Cursor and Obsidian

  • React Server Components

    • Resetting Controlled Components in Forms
    • Request for a (minimal) RSC Framework
    • The Bookkeeping Pattern

  • Goals

    • Thoughts on New Years Resolutions
    • 30
    • 29

  • Recommendations

    • Recommended Tech Talks

  • Roundup

    • Recommended Tech Talks
    • Links

  • Talks

    • Recommended Tech Talks

  • Server Actions

    • Request for a (minimal) RSC Framework
    • The Bookkeeping Pattern

  • Forms

    • Request for a (minimal) RSC Framework
    • The Bookkeeping Pattern

  • Task Management

    • My Updated Obsidian Task Management
    • Simple Obsidian Task Management

  • Bluesky

    • Bluesky Tips and Tools

  • Ghostty

    • Building a Custom Ghostty Theme

  • Monorepos

    • Monorepo Tips and Tricks
    • Navigating Monorepos with Ease
    • yw

  • Learning

    • Offload Complexity, Don't Offload Learning
    • Learning Go

  • Deno

    • Next.js with Deno v2
    • Deno

  • Product

    • More Thoughts on Dogfooding
    • Dogfooding

  • Tools for Thought

    • Git Notes as a Tool for Thought
    • On Note Taking
    • Linear Tools Enforce Linear Thinking

  • Snippets

    • A Better useSSR Implementation
    • Type Safe process.env
    • useConsole
    • yw

  • Notes

    • Simple Obsidian Task Management

  • Notion

    • Switching back to Obsidian
    • Switching back to Notion

  • APIs

    • Abstract Your API

  • Refactors

    • Using Feature Toggles to De-risk Refactors

  • Looking Ahead

    • Leaving Wayfair
    • 2018
    • Looking Ahead: 2016

  • Meta

    • Leaving Wayfair
    • Afraid
    • The Message is in the Medium

  • swc

    • Hohoro

  • Projects

    • Hohoro
    • The Library-Docs Monorepo Template
    • Building Better Beacon
    • Project Deep Dive: Tails
    • Project Deep Dive: Microfibre
    • Dollar: Devlog 2
    • Dollar: Devlog 1
    • Building in 2016
    • My First Project of 2016

  • webpack

    • Funport: True Dynamic Imports in webpack

  • Guides

    • Configuring Cloudflare Domains with Vercel
    • React Error Boundaries: Revisited
    • Exporting Custom Slack Emoji
    • Mac Setup Guide

  • Vercel

    • Configuring Cloudflare Domains with Vercel

  • Slack

    • Exporting Custom Slack Emoji
    • Enhancing Slack

  • OSS

    • Corporate Sponsored OSS

  • Project Deep Dive

    • Project Deep Dive: Tails
    • Project Deep Dive: Microfibre

  • Observability

    • Service Monitors and Observability

  • CSS-in-JS

    • On Adopting CSS-in-JS

  • Zed

    • Fixing Zed's language server

  • Go

    • Project Deep Dive: Microfibre
    • Learning Go

  • ChatGPT

    • AI Driven Development

  • Hot Take

    • Jabs and Fluff: On CTO Office Hours

  • Ideas

    • Idea: Distributable Web Apps
    • Literate (web) Programming
    • Powerpoint

  • Rant

    • Fractal Refactoring
    • 10x Engineers
    • Avoid Distractions
    • Linear Tools Enforce Linear Thinking

  • Advice

    • Avoid Distractions

  • Tailwind

    • My Thoughts on Tailwind
    • Setting up Next.js with Tailwind

  • Communication

    • Write it down
    • On Written Communication
    • The Message is in the Medium

  • Dollar

    • Dollar: Devlog 2
    • Dollar: Devlog 1

  • Yarn

    • Yarn Berry Gitignore Settings
    • yw

  • Testing

    • On Writing Tests
    • Snapshot Testing
    • Testing Software

  • Android

    • Switching to iPhone

  • iOS

    • Switching to iPhone

  • iPhone

    • Switching to iPhone

  • Recap

    • Year in Music
    • 2020: Year in Review
    • 2018
    • August
    • 2015

  • stub

    • Pair Programming (stub)

  • Productivity

    • Start Fresh

  • Collaboration

    • On Written Communication
    • Pair Code Reviews
    • A Note on Consistency
    • Draft Pull Requests

  • Writing

    • On Written Communication

  • React Testing Library

    • React Testing Library: Checkboxes and events

  • Development Practices

    • On Code Review
    • Fast
    • Stateful Providers

  • Code Review

    • On Code Review
    • Pair Code Reviews
    • Draft Pull Requests

  • Node

    • Writing Node Scripts

  • Hacking

    • Hack Sprint

  • Side Projects

    • Simple Props
    • Building a Web Sandbox: Part 1
    • NextJS Analytics with Airtable
    • The Rabbit Hole
    • Building a Live Editor
    • Start Small, Accept Change
    • Weekend Projects
    • A New Resume

  • Design Systems

    • Computed Design Tokens
    • Theme First UI Development

  • Theme

    • Computed Design Tokens

  • Product Development

    • Enhancing Slack

  • Meetings

    • A Note On Meetings

  • Note

    • A Note On Meetings
    • A Note On Anti-Patterns

  • Photos

    • February 20, 2020
    • Summer 2018 Trip

  • Back Bay

    • February 20, 2020

  • Bend

    • Summer 2019 - Bend Oregon

  • Design Tokens

    • Theme First UI Development

  • GraphQL

    • Suspense Plus GraphQL

  • Suspense

    • Suspense Plus GraphQL

  • Article

    • Missing Detail

  • Log

    • Matt's Log - October

  • Launch

    • You've Launched, Now What?

  • Burnout

    • Taking a Break

  • Components

    • Managing Complex UI Component State

  • Calendar

    • Calendar

  • Technology

    • Push vs Pull AI
    • October 4th
    • DJI vs GoPro

  • Collection

    • Links

  • Google

    • October 4th

  • Web

    • Pull Quotes

  • Twitter

    • 10,000 Characters

  • Competition

    • DJI vs GoPro

  • Startups

    • Powerpoint

  • Social Media

    • The Social Max

  • Thanks

    • Thanksgiving

  • Family

    • Family Time
    • Tip: Request and Response Headers
  • Using Feature Toggles to De-risk Refactors
  • Hohoro
  • Custom Favicon Recipes
  • Corporate Sponsored OSS
  • The Library-Docs Monorepo Template
  • Building Better Beacon
  • Project Deep Dive: Tails
  • Churn Anxiety
  • Service Monitors and Observability
  • Type Safe process.env
  • Consistent Local Ports with Wrangler
  • On Adopting CSS-in-JS
  • Project Deep Dive: Microfibre
  • Pair Programming
  • AI Driven Development
  • Go To Git Utils
  • Using Marquee with React and TypeScript
  • Finding React Artifacts
  • Learning Go
  • Deno
  • My Thoughts on Tailwind
  • Setting up Next.js with Tailwind
  • Setting up Shiki on Next.js
  • Navigating Monorepos with Ease
  • My Updated Next.js Setup
  • A Note On Anti-Patterns
  • Theme First UI Development
  • Deploying Automatically using GitHub Actions
  • Simpler and Smaller
  • Maintenance Costs
  • Snapshot Testing
  • useReducer, don't useState
  • Start Small, Accept Change
  • React Error Boundaries
  • Testing Software
  • Suspense Plus GraphQL
  • You've Launched, Now What?
  • Taking a Break
  • Managing Complex UI Component State
  • Understanding React 16.3 Updates
  • CSS in JS
  • Redesign v6
  • JavaScript Weirdness
  • Calendar
  • Rebuilding Mustache
  • My Current AI Stack
  • Configuring Cloudflare Domains with Vercel
  • React Error Boundaries: Revisited
  • Custom Favicon Recipes
  • Corporate Sponsored OSS
  • The Library-Docs Monorepo Template
  • Building Better Beacon
  • Churn Anxiety
  • Stop Snacking
  • Pair Programming
  • AI Driven Development
  • Go To Git Utils
  • Using Marquee with React and TypeScript
  • Finding React Artifacts
  • Learning Go
  • Principles for Automated Testing
  • Deno
  • Fractal Refactoring
  • 10x Engineers
  • Setting up Shiki on Next.js
  • Dollar: Devlog 2
  • Navigating Monorepos with Ease
  • Dollar: Devlog 1
  • Yarn Berry Gitignore Settings
  • On Writing Tests
  • Moving to PNPM
  • Upgrade Guides
  • My Opinionated Next.js Setup
  • My Two Favorite React Tricks
  • Build Your Developer Toolbox
  • Updating Forked Repos
  • React Testing Library: Checkboxes and events
  • Array Chunking
  • Writing Node Scripts
  • useConsole
  • yw
  • Hooks Tips Ep. 2 - Migrating Instance Variables
  • Hooks Tips Ep. 1 - The Dependency Array
  • Building a Live Editor
  • Taking a Break
  • Rebuilding Mustache
  • The Great CSS Debate
  • Attribute Selectors
  • Clientside