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Psychological pitfalls of using artificial intelligence - a heightened sense of urgencyoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2026
A shield or a cudgel?original ↗
31 May 2026
Reasons to be a token miseroriginal ↗
27 May 2026
The time required to wait for a job to complete - changes the workflow for how you do itoriginal ↗
27 May 2026
Agentic AI - yak shaving on steroidsoriginal ↗
23 May 2026

2025

Advice for someone looking to get into software engineeringoriginal ↗
24 Nov 2025
Encapsulate as much state as possible in your componentoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2025
The nuance of React rendering behaviour as it relates to childrenoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2025
Tools I like: @inquirer/promptsoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2025
I'm apprehensive about using too many AI-generated images in my blog.original ↗
2 Jul 2025
Reasons to not use GraphQLoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2025
It is better to have the same meeting four times with four people each, than to have one large meeting with sixteen people.original ↗
26 Jun 2025
Delete a range of commitsoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2025
Conference notes for Web Directions Code 2025 - The behaviour of browsers and their loading of resources.original ↗
11 Jun 2025
How to add an experimental feature to your code, without having it in your main version controloriginal ↗
19 May 2025
No, react context is not causing too many rendersoriginal ↗
9 May 2025
At least write one test.original ↗
23 Apr 2025
I'm going off MDX for bloggingoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2025
Well designed code is easy to deleteoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2025
How to prevent further modification commits to a file with a pre-commit hookoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2025
Tools I Want: A VSCode plugin that highlights how often an error appears in Sentry, or other monitoring toolsoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2025
The tool I want to exist - an API mocking tool that generates mock data by observing real world usage.original ↗
4 Feb 2025
If I were building a start up from scratch, these are the things I would include (or have a plan to include).original ↗
13 Jan 2025

2024

Good idea: Loading screen tips for developersoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2024
React testing patterns: When making a change to a leaf component breaks tests further up the treeoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2024
Module behaviour in browsers - loading waterfalls, module preloading, cache invalidation cascades and import maps.original ↗
26 Nov 2024
How to create an imperative useConfirmationModal hookoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2024
Examples of tooling that do not play nicely with ESMoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2024
Two caching strategiesoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2024
Assume the next developer will copy paste what they see you do. (That next developer might be you.)original ↗
18 Nov 2024
The behaviour of browsers and loading resources - Scriptsoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2024
The behaviour of browsers and loading resources - HTML, images, and CSSoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2024
TypeScript - indexing into a mapped typeoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2024
TypeScript types are inferred in a forward directionoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2024
Using cookies in React Server Components to avoid a flash the incorrect content.original ↗
2 Oct 2024
How to create a responsive React hook to listen for changes to cookiesoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2024
The natural state of software is chaosoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2024
Migrating from Remix to NextJSoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2024
An overview of configuring proxy behaviour in NodeJS applicationsoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2024
How to publish a React component package, using NextJS as the compileroriginal ↗
23 Aug 2024
How to configure NextJS to proxy its requestsoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2024
The problem of testability in Reactoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2024
Tools I like: git checkout interactiveoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2024
Adding dark mode to a blog - how to avoid flashes of the wrong themeoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2024
How to configure Remix and mdx-bundler for a serverless platform - barrel files approach, Remix v1original ↗
22 Mar 2024
How to get started testing a React codebase that has no testsoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2024
Run a Docker image on AWS ECS + Postgres using Terraform CDKoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2024
Why I've gone off React Testing Libraryoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2024

2023

How to configure Remix and mdx-bundler (with file system access)original ↗
19 Nov 2023
A comprehensive guide to testing with Easy-Markdown-Editororiginal ↗
19 Oct 2023
Testing strategies for a Single Page Application as it relates to state managementoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2023
Today I learned: The Etc/GMT+x timezones actually mean UTC-xoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2023
Black box contract testing - third party API mockingoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2023
The horseshoe model for software developmentoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2023
Blackbox contract tests - Performance testing with Jestoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2023
OpenAPI and contract tests with Jestoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2023
Using Postman and an OpenAPI spec for contract/blackbox testsoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2023
Postman and OpenAPI - Automating testsoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2023
The case for blackbox testsoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2023
This blog now features commentsoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2023
Thoughts about JSON APIoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2023
Generating MSW mocks from an OpenAPI spec.original ↗
17 Jan 2023

2022

Why I don't like API mocking as a necessary frontend testing strategyoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2022
User Experience reflects the underlying data structureoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2022
Generating application and client code from an OpenAPI specoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2022
I'm playing with Remixoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2022
Why use OpenAPI?original ↗
25 Nov 2022
The case for splitting Cypress tests into multiple it blocksoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2022
A model of extensible changes.original ↗
10 Aug 2022
Dependency injection when using redux.original ↗
1 Aug 2022
Different Approaches to Form Element State Management in Reactoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2022
Agnostic state and service management in Reactoriginal ↗
5 May 2022
What is the role of QA and how should their tests fit into the development process?original ↗
19 Apr 2022
How to effectively hire contractorsoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2022