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2026

Things you should be doingoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
My Claude Code setup and FAQoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2026
All the screenshots in your documentation should be autogeneratedoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2026
Maximizing agentic coding, or, wtf is a PRDoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2026
Using tree sitter for syntax highlighting on the blogoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2026

2025

Beware! If you make custom React hooks, eslint-plugin-react-hooks may not catch some issuesoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2025
My experiences with AI and Claude Code in 2025original ↗
23 Dec 2025
Are your optimizations making any improvement? A simple setup to benchmark two branchesoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2025
Weird problems I grapple with a lotoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2025
Vite library mode bundles your library's dependencies (which I don't think is good for libraries published to NPM)original ↗
23 Feb 2025
Making a pure-ESM package using `tsc`original ↗
12 Jan 2025

2024

Begone, superstitious if-statements!original ↗
29 Oct 2024
Be careful when you rename an optional "prop" in typescriptoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2024

2023

I see that noUncheckedIndexedAccess is false. Did you want to use Record?original ↗
27 Sept 2023
~7 eslint rules that will tumble the lint right off your lil sockiesoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2023
Making a static site blog with the Next.js 'app' directoryoriginal ↗
8 Apr 2023
Command line productivity stufforiginal ↗
25 Mar 2023
Things typescript didn't catch that should probably be lint rulesoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2023

2022

The devinterrupted'ening of /r/programmingoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2022
The React tutorial I wish I hadoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2022
Handling component state with React...you gotta reset it sometimesoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2022
Making an audio slideshow with ffmpegoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2022
Creating a music player using Rust/GTK4 - fml9000original ↗
5 Sept 2022
Making a twitter bot in the year 2022 with node.jsoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2022
Using Rust/WASM in a monorepo with create-react-apporiginal ↗
22 Aug 2022
Photos of vacationoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2022
Photos of lifeoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2022
Watch out for your pinky finger (AND elbow posture)original ↗
8 Jul 2022
You may not need a bundler for your NPM libraryoriginal ↗
27 May 2022
Notes on performance profiling JS applicationsoriginal ↗
10 May 2022
Using find . -exec sed is dangerous in a git repooriginal ↗
4 May 2022
Cognitive reframingoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2022
Memoizing async functions so that you don't cache errorsoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2022
Ukraineoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2022
Back when I was a noise musician...original ↗
15 Feb 2022
Structural variants and the SAM format - the long (reads) and short (reads) of itoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2022

2021

How to make your own npm package with typescriptoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2021
My next.js static blog setuporiginal ↗
26 Dec 2021
A spooky error when you have a string bigger than 512MB in Chromeoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2021
Jest parallelization, globals, mocks, and squawkless testsoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2021
Decrease your idle CPU usage when developing typescript apps with this one weird environment variableoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2021
An amazing error message if you put more than 2^24 items in a JS Map objectoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2021
Do you understand your NPM dependencies?original ↗
27 Jul 2021

2020

Making a HTTPS accessible S3 powered static site with CloudFront+route 53original ↗
26 Dec 2020
Making a serverless website for photo and video upload pt. 2original ↗
26 Dec 2020
Making a serverless website for photo upload pt. 1original ↗
24 Dec 2020
Challenges I faced learning Reactoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2020
Misconceptions your team might have during The Big Rewriteoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2020

2018

Behind the release - the story of the bugs and features in JBrowse 1.16.0original ↗
17 Dec 2018

2017

Problems that I experienced with the HPCCoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2017
How I learned to hate ORM (especially for data import scripts)original ↗
12 Mar 2017
Plotting a coordinate on the screenoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2017

2016

Creating a JBrowse pluginoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2016
Installing clamav on OSXoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2016
Querying InterMine databases using Roriginal ↗
17 Jun 2016
How to make your resume.json or resume-cli look greatoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2016
Creating a testing framework for JBrowse pluginsoriginal ↗
19 Apr 2016
Creating a docker imageoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2016
Basic command line productivity tricks and learning experiencesoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2016
Running nginx on containerised travis-CI pt 2original ↗
28 Mar 2016
On over-reproducibilityoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2016

2015

Cheating in your computer science class by copying from stackoverfloworiginal ↗
17 Dec 2015
Killing postgres the hard wayoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2015
Tomcat memory debuggingoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2015
Fixing spiky CPU issues and unresponsiveness with Tomcatoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2015
Weekend project - graphing tumblr reblogs using cytoscape.jsoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2015
Creating high-resolution screenshots (of jbrowse) with phantomJSoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2015
Post graduation surveyoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2015

2014

High DPI rendering on HTML5 canvas - some problems and solutionsoriginal ↗
22 May 2014