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  • 2026

    2 posts published in 2026

    • May

      1 posts published in may 2026

  • April

    1 posts published in april 2026

  • 2025

    12 posts published in 2025

    • December

      1 posts published in december 2025

    • November

      2 posts published in november 2025

    • October

      1 posts published in october 2025

    • September

      6 posts published in september 2025

    • August

      5 posts published in august 2025

    • July

      5 posts published in july 2025

    • Performative Engineering
    The Agentic Engineering Scale
    Onboarding Your New AI Teammate
    Things Leaders Should Never Do
    Tip: Secrets for Cloudflare Workers
    Tip: GitHub Created Date Filtering
    In Review - I, Robot
    New GitHub Scams
    Progressive Identifiers
    In Review - The Nuphy Air75 V3
    Build Momentum
    Link: Next.js Is Infuriating
    Dependabot Hell
    Quick Git
    Link: What the hell is going on right now?
    Recipe: Horchata Protein Latte
    On Taste

  • 2024

    12 posts published in 2024

    • December

      5 posts published in december 2024

      • Thoughts on New Years Resolutions
      • Team Memes
      • A Quick Look at Import Maps
      • Recommended Tech Talks
      • Request for a (minimal) RSC Framework

    • November

      2 posts published in november 2024

      • My Updated Obsidian Task Management
      • Bluesky Tips and Tools

    • October

      5 posts published in october 2024

      • The Bookkeeping Pattern
      • Building a Custom Ghostty Theme
      • TSLite
      • Monorepo Tips and Tricks
      • Offload Complexity, Don't Offload Learning

    • September

      2 posts published in september 2024

      • Next.js with Deno v2
      • More Thoughts on Dogfooding

    • August

      3 posts published in august 2024

      • Dogfooding
      • Git Notes as a Tool for Thought
      • Don't Break the Implicit Prop Contract

  • 2023

    10 posts published in 2023

    • December

      10 posts published in december 2023

      • Project Deep Dive: Tails
      • Churn Anxiety
      • Service Monitors and Observability
      • Type Safe process.env
      • Consistent Local Ports with Wrangler
      • On Adopting CSS-in-JS
      • Being Unopinionated
      • Stop Snacking
      • No Process is Invisible Process
      • Fixing Zed's language server

    • November

      4 posts published in november 2023

      • Project Deep Dive: Microfibre
      • Pair Programming
      • AI Driven Development
      • Teams and Caterpillar Tracks

    • October

      1 posts published in october 2023

      • Go To Git Utils

    • September

      4 posts published in september 2023

      • Jabs and Fluff: On CTO Office Hours
      • Using Marquee with React and TypeScript
      • Finding React Artifacts
      • Learning Go

  • 2022

    5 posts published in 2022

    • December

      1 posts published in december 2022

      • My Updated Next.js Setup

    • July

      1 posts published in july 2022

      • Yarn Berry Gitignore Settings

    • June

      2 posts published in june 2022

      • On Note Taking
      • On Writing Tests

    • May

      3 posts published in may 2022

      • Switching back to Notion
      • Moving to PNPM
      • Upgrade Guides

    • January

      3 posts published in january 2022

      • My Opinionated Next.js Setup
      • My Two Favorite React Tricks
      • Switching to iPhone

  • 2021

    9 posts published in 2021

    • December

      1 posts published in december 2021

      • Year in Music

    • November

      3 posts published in november 2021

      • Pair Programming (stub)
      • Fast Feedback Systems
      • Video Games

    • October

      1 posts published in october 2021

      • Delete it

    • September

      2 posts published in september 2021

      • Linear Tools Enforce Linear Thinking
      • Mac Setup Guide

    • August

      6 posts published in august 2021

      • Build Your Developer Toolbox
      • Start Fresh
      • On Written Communication
      • Updating Forked Repos
      • React Testing Library: Checkboxes and events
      • Roll your own Obsidian sync

    • June

      2 posts published in june 2021

      • The Squeeze
      • Learning

    • March

      4 posts published in march 2021

      • On Code Review

  • 2020

    6 posts published in 2020

    • December

      5 posts published in december 2020

      • 2020: Year in Review
      • Building a Web Sandbox: Part 1
      • Literate (web) Programming
      • NextJS Analytics with Airtable
      • Pair Code Reviews

    • July

      1 posts published in july 2020

      • Enhancing Slack

    • May

      1 posts published in may 2020

      • A Note on Consistency

    • April

      3 posts published in april 2020

      • The Rabbit Hole
      • A Note On Meetings
      • A Note On Anti-Patterns

    • March

      2 posts published in march 2020

      • Stateful Providers
      • Draft Pull Requests

    • February

      1 posts published in february 2020

      • February 20, 2020

  • 2019

    6 posts published in 2019

    • July

      2 posts published in july 2019

      • Summer 2019 - Bend Oregon
      • Theme First UI Development

    • June

      2 posts published in june 2019

      • Deploying Automatically using GitHub Actions
      • Simpler and Smaller

    • May

      1 posts published in may 2019

      • Maintenance Costs

    • March

      1 posts published in march 2019

      • Snapshot Testing

    • February

      5 posts published in february 2019

      • useReducer, don't useState
      • Hooks Tips Ep. 2 - Migrating Instance Variables
      • Hooks Tips Ep. 1 - The Dependency Array
      • Building a Live Editor
      • Start Small, Accept Change

    • January

      1 posts published in january 2019

      • React Error Boundaries

  • 2018

    8 posts published in 2018

    • December

      2 posts published in december 2018

      • Starting Fresh
      • Testing Software

    • November

      2 posts published in november 2018

      • Suspense Plus GraphQL
      • Missing Detail

    • October

      1 posts published in october 2018

      • Matt's Log - October

    • September

      1 posts published in september 2018

      • You've Launched, Now What?

    • July

      2 posts published in july 2018

      • Summer 2018 Trip
      • Taking a Break

    • May

      1 posts published in may 2018

      • Managing Complex UI Component State

    • April

      1 posts published in april 2018

      • Understanding React 16.3 Updates

    • January

      1 posts published in january 2018

      • 2018

  • 2017

    3 posts published in 2017

    • April

      1 posts published in april 2017

      • CSS in JS

    • March

      4 posts published in march 2017

      • Redesign v6
      • JavaScript Weirdness
      • Calendar
      • Rebuilding Mustache

    • January

      1 posts published in january 2017

      • Push vs Pull AI

  • 2016

    5 posts published in 2016

    • November

      1 posts published in november 2016

      • Links

    • October

      2 posts published in october 2016

      • The Great CSS Debate
      • October 4th

    • August

      5 posts published in august 2016

      • My New Website
      • Pull Quotes
      • Redesign v5
      • Attribute Selectors
      • August

    • April

      1 posts published in april 2016

      • Redesign

    • January

      6 posts published in january 2016

      • Afraid
      • Clientside
      • 10,000 Characters
      • Building in 2016
      • DJI vs GoPro
      • My First Project of 2016

  • 2015

    2 posts published in 2015

    • December

      5 posts published in december 2015

      • 2015
      • Looking Ahead: 2016
      • Blogging vs Working
      • Powerpoint
      • The Social Max

    • November

      6 posts published in november 2015

      • Thanksgiving
      • Family Time
      • Weekend Projects
      • The Message is in the Medium
      • A New Look
      • A New Resume
    • Zombie Retros
  • 31
  • Link: How I build software quickly
  • Vacation (and streaks)
  • Multi-step Native HTML Forms

  • June

    9 posts published in june 2025

    • Git Co-Authorship
    • useInterval
    • Polish is Important
    • <Blank> Driven Development
    • All Documentation Should Be Dated
    • Adding Microposts
    • Roundup Notes in Obsidian with Dataview
    • Quick Tip - Theme Aware Images
    • Async Class Creation In JavaScript

  • May

    2 posts published in may 2025

    • In Review - The Belroy Transit Workpack Pro v2
    • Website Redesign v10

  • April

    2 posts published in april 2025

    • Server Side Rendering Compatible CSS Theming
    • Podcasting By Hand

  • March

    1 posts published in march 2025

    • Replacing Dropbox Capture with Raycast

  • February

    5 posts published in february 2025

    • Quick Tip - Specific Local Module Declarations
    • On File-System Routing Conventions
    • You're Building Software Wrong
    • Cursor and Obsidian
    • Single File Web Apps

  • January

    2 posts published in january 2025

    • The AI Development Conundrum
    • Resetting Controlled Components in Forms

  • July

    6 posts published in july 2024

    • A Better useSSR Implementation
    • 30
    • Simple Obsidian Task Management
    • My Current Dev Setup
    • Switching back to Obsidian
    • There Is No Standard Markdown

  • June

    2 posts published in june 2024

    • Abstract Your API
    • Tip: Request and Response Headers

  • May

    3 posts published in may 2024

    • Using Feature Toggles to De-risk Refactors
    • Leaving Wayfair
    • Hohoro

  • April

    3 posts published in april 2024

    • Funport: True Dynamic Imports in webpack
    • My Current AI Stack
    • Configuring Cloudflare Domains with Vercel

  • March

    4 posts published in march 2024

    • React Error Boundaries: Revisited
    • Exporting Custom Slack Emoji
    • Custom Favicon Recipes
    • Corporate Sponsored OSS

  • February

    1 posts published in february 2024

    • The Library-Docs Monorepo Template

  • January

    1 posts published in january 2024

    • Building Better Beacon

  • August

    1 posts published in august 2023

    • Speedbumps

  • July

    4 posts published in july 2023

    • Idea: Distributable Web Apps
    • 29
    • Principles for Automated Testing
    • Deno

  • June

    2 posts published in june 2023

    • Fractal Refactoring
    • 10x Engineers

  • April

    3 posts published in april 2023

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

  • March

    3 posts published in march 2023

    • Write it down
    • Setting up Shiki on Next.js
    • Dollar: Devlog 2

  • January

    2 posts published in january 2023

    • Navigating Monorepos with Ease
    • Dollar: Devlog 1
    • Array Chunking
  • Fast
  • Writing Node Scripts

  • February

    2 posts published in february 2021

    • useConsole
    • yw

  • January

    4 posts published in january 2021

    • Hack Sprint
    • Simple Props
    • Computed Design Tokens
    • 2021: Resolutions