Code, Craft or Commodity
AI is exposing a divide between developers who love writing code and those who love building software.
All of my long-form thoughts on programming, growth, world views and more, collected in chronological order.
AI is exposing a divide between developers who love writing code and those who love building software.
Give Pi named roles, scoped tasks, and automatic handoffs instead of managing models and prompting agents to continue.
Preserve meaningful error messages in production, stop using tools that strip them.
Stop chasing one framework to do it all. The perfect stack is two.
Work on multiple branches at once without stashing or cloning.
Learn how to efficiently generate and insert realistic mock data into your database.
Use Devbox to manage your portable, isolated, dev environment, on any machine.
Use process-compose to manage your dev services.
How to use manual approvals in GitHub Actions to wait for a human to approve a release.
Don't mutate the iterator you're iterating over.
Effective package development using Yalc.
Fullstack development, or rather isomorphic development, isn't as easy as they say.
Use Procfiles to turn multiple startup commands into a single one.
A rambling about recent events in my life.
Using typed GraphQL queries to easy development and maintain API confidence.
How to handle POST requests in Next.js getServerSideProps.
How to use Type Assertions to narrow types in TypeScript.
The interview process is broken, I can build, I can't play.
How I got an exciting job offer, that I had to decline.
Generators and what makes them so special.
Walking down a tree using a function, loop or generator.
Flat loops as an alternative for complex recursive functions.
How I became as productive as I am.
How to use Type Guards to narrow types in TypeScript.
Use PM2 to turn multiple startup commands into a single one.
Form handling in React, without react controlling everything!
Prefer [].slice(2) over [,,rest]
A typescript `valueof` implementation similar to `keyof`
Mutating objects is fine, sometimes preferred.
Functional methods and side effects don't play well together.
Working from Home isn't the same anymore.
The launch of Updrafts.app - A Tailwind Studio.
The costs of Optional Chaining in performance and bundle size.