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2026

Debugging Against Your Own Prediction Engineoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
Determining Determinism, Non-Deterministicallyoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2026
Contract-Driven Development: Write the Truth Onceoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2026
Hot Potato: How Projects Actually Get Shippedoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2026
Meet Somnaoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2026
So You're About To Do Your First Conference Talkoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2026

2025

Amygdala's Determinism, Good Will Hunting & Gut Feel: A Playbook for Developers Building With Intelligenceoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2025
Building Devdle: Notes from the Neon Arcadeoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2025
fintech_devcon 2025 Talk: Securing a Banking Platform's API + UIoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2025
AI Struggles To Help You Thinkoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2025
The Problem → Solution → Impact Gaporiginal ↗
17 Apr 2025
Principles & Implementation: Lessons in Surviving the Transient Nature of Software Engineeringoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2025
Solving vs. Augmenting: The Developer's Dilemma in a New Codebaseoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2025
How I Led a High-Performing Engineering Team Without Micromanagingoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2025
The Software Engineer Spectrum: Speed vs. Accuracyoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2025
Migrating 160,000 Lines of Production Banking JavaScript to TypeScript with Zero Downtimeoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2025
Getting Real(about)Timeoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2025
Does it work, how you want it to, most of the time?original ↗
29 Jan 2025
Securing a Banking UI & API: Lessons From a Fintech CTOoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2025
10 Ways I Approach Engineering Leadership That Doesn't Leave Me Hating Myselforiginal ↗
14 Jan 2025
Entangled Interfaces: A Quantum Leap in UI Engineering with Reactoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2025

2024

Understanding Systems: A Journey Through Chaos, Meaning, and Observationoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2024

2023

Chaos Engineering: Jurassic Park & Distributed Systemsoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2023

2020

The 3-Phase Time-off Schedule for Contractorsoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2020

2018

On Startingoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2018
Notes on using Vue and React in productionoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2018

2017

Making Jekyll workflow a bit betteroriginal ↗
17 Aug 2017

2016

Creating a real-time test automation platform for Cisco with React & WebSockets…and React Nativeoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2016
Hello Speculo - easy colour palette visualisationoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2016

2015

Everything Changes But Youoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2015

2014

Creating a dynamic search page for your Jekyll blog using JavaScriptoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2014
iOS for Web Developers: Building Permeateoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2014
Building a Backendless Web App in 2 Hoursoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2014
Easy Peasy Equal Heightsoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2014
News vs. Information Seekingoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2014

2013

Hosting your Blog or Portfolio on GitHuboriginal ↗
21 Nov 2013
Rewriting History with Backbone.jsoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2013
Options are the deviloriginal ↗
29 Oct 2013
Too Scared To Write A Line Of Codeoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2013
The Principle of Least Poweroriginal ↗
26 Sept 2013
Make it Personaloriginal ↗
19 Sept 2013
Open Source is kinda weirdoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2013
A Backbone View to a Killoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2013
Jekyll In 15 Minutesoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2013
Patterns for Managing Large Scale Backbone Applicationsoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2013
useCapture demystifiedoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2013
The Unseen Revisionsoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2013
setTimeout - a temporary hackoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2013
APIsoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2013
On Heisenberg.jsoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2013
Underlying Passionoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2013

2012

Mobile Lastoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2012
Twitter Bootstraporiginal ↗
17 Dec 2012
Smashing Magazine's The Mobile Bookoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2012
Using jQuery custom events in your Object Literal and Observer Pattern applicationsoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2012
From jQuery to JavaScript and back againoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2012
Set up your own GitHub pageoriginal ↗
21 Oct 2012
The obsession with responsive websitesoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2012
A quick start JavaScript class structureoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2012
Hire Yourself, You Won't Look Backoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2012
Say Yes To Everythingoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2012
Others Are Better Than You, Get Over itoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2012
Newcomers to web design, don't be put offoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2012