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2026

Very niche software, part 2original ↗
11 Sept 2026
Very niche software, part 1original ↗
30 Aug 2026
Agentic coding and mental modelsoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2026
Pawno: terminal pleasureoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2026

2024

Three ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Google Cloud Runoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2024
Concurrency diagramsoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2024
Node.js async the right wayoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2024
Status gamesoriginal ↗
27 May 2024
The art of good code revieworiginal ↗
29 Jan 2024

2023

Vector search for dummiesoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2023
Lessons learned from integrating with GPT in productionoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2023
Four ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Redisoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2023
Nine ways to shoot yourself in the foot with PostgreSQLoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2023
Six ways to shoot yourself in the foot with healthchecksoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2023
How to evaluate dependenciesoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2023
How to debugoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2023

2022

Some useful, non-obvious Postgres patternsoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2022

2021

Things my dog taught me about software developmentoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2021

2019

Passing the WSET Level 3 Award in Winesoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2019
Build a better release scriptoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2019
FxA monorepo migrationoriginal ↗
4 May 2019
Interactive bulk editing with vim macrosoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2019
Back-off and retry using JavaScript arrays and promisesoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2019
2018 retrospectiveoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2019
Gadget review: Polar Flow M430 vs Garmin Forerunner 645original ↗
13 Jan 2019
Passing the WSET Level 2 Award in Wines and Spiritsoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2019

2018

Custom assertions using Rust macrosoriginal ↗
21 Oct 2018
Automating MySQL EXPLAIN checksoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2018
Refactoring with Rust macrosoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2018
Bye Dadoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2018
The elegance of Rustoriginal ↗
16 May 2018
Parsing individual data items from huge JSON streams in Node.jsoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2018

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Showing how poor performance affects user behaviouroriginal ↗
8 Nov 2017

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