I Like Kill Nerds

Go look at job boards.

For decades, we optimised for the wrong things.

I am going to be bleak for a moment.

Mark Zuckerberg bet his entire company on the metaverse.

Crypto has been around for over fifteen years now.

I’ve been in thousands of meetings over my career.

Every email client on earth has made it trivially easy to commit one of the most devastating acts of workplace communication: the unnecessary reply all.

Every few years someone publishes a “how I work” post and I read it thinking yeah, that’s nice, but do you actually do all of that or did you just describe the idealised version of yourself?

It’s 9am.

You have a meeting on your calendar.

There’s a fantasy floating around tech circles that AI is about to make software developers obsolete.

Technical interviews do not predict job performance.

Notion is not a productivity tool.

Every struggling project in history has had some executive look at the timeline, panic, and say the same thing: “Let’s throw more people at it.”

I am going to say something that will upset a lot of people who have invested significant portions of their careers into container orchestration: Docker Compose is probably all you need.

GraphQL is dying and I could not be happier.

Microservices were a mistake.

I recently pushed an update to CI Twig, a Codeigniter library I created back in 2012 for integrating the Twig templating engine.

I should not need to read a novel to call your endpoint.

I have spent more time than I care to admit writing technical documentation for Aurelia 2.

Imposter syndrome is real.

You are a startup.

Australians are coffee snobs.

I’ve built a Q&A platform where the worst answers win.

Between 2022 and 2024, the tech industry laid off somewhere around half a million people.

Somewhere in the last year, we collectively decided that typing prompts into an AI and hoping for the best counts as software development.

I deleted my LinkedIn account.

I am a front-end developer.

This site has been around for almost 16 years now.

Every year, someone declares Aurelia dead.

The Stranger Things finale dropped on New Year’s Day and the internet has been losing its collective mind ever since.

It is not a secret anymore.

I have been working remotely full time since 2018.

I have had more ideas than I can count.

I have never been a TDD purist.

Vince Gilligan has done it again.

I have been playing guitar for twenty years.

Every morning at 9:15, a dozen developers shuffle into a room or log into a video call to answer the same three questions they answered yesterday.

Volume 2 just dropped and it rewrote everything we thought we understood.

I recently spent a few days poking around the network protocol that the Line 6 Helix Stadium XL uses to communicate with its editor software.

Something is happening in front-end development that nobody wants to talk about.

With Christmas approaching and work stopping for the year, naturally with more free time what does a developer with a brand new Helix Stadium XL do when they see the editor communicates over WiFi for editing?

I recently chased a WordPress Multisite performance problem that made the admin feel unusable.

Neural DSP have dropped a teaser image and the guitar community is losing its collective mind.

I get asked this question a lot.

In less than a week, Australia becomes the first democracy in the world to ban under-16s from social media.

I owned the original Helix Floor and loved it.

I’ve been using automatic guitar tuners for years now.

Every time an AI music app starts feeling like the future, the labels show up with lawsuits and NDAs.

We’re living through a fascinating time in software development.