Software development and its discontents

When your attention is the bottleneck, slather on bionic reading fonts.

Building a Raspberry Pi NAS to wean off N cloud storage subscriptions

From 15Mbps in the office to a whole-home mesh network with AdGuard Home, Pi-hole on a Pi 3B, and some Bell Gigahub quirks.

That time I locked myself out of NixOS the night before I was supposed to deploy a project, and fumbled back in.

After 2 days of on-and-off teeth-gnashing, I FINALLY got it working.

Well look, I only used a tool to write a tool for managing how I use a different tool without using any other tools!

Adding to the internet's dogpile of webmention troubleshooting for collecting authentic reactions from online communities.

The story of how 3 developers blew 45 minutes investigating where a cookie mysteriously wasn't.

Or how I gave my Next.js deploy the glowup it deserves. (◕‿◕✿)

Expectations clash with reality while trying to turn prompts into workflows.

Gripes and gotchas from building custom form validation after hundreds of hours lost to retrofitting library form components, writing and rewriting field validations exactly as clients wanted, and building accessible form field web components at enterpris…

Looking back at flux-style stores for modernizing front end applications.

On expectations vs. reality of senior software developer roles, and the unspoken requirement of professional mindreading for navigating politics in senior+ roles.

An in-the-weeds tirade to put an end to the lackluster practice of browser resizing.

The invisible and thankless work of determining the right things to fix

World's most delightful testing framework, held hostage by Node's ESM migration 2023

Levelling up to senior and beyond: what I wish I knew

Notes on prioritizing bugs and enhancements

Farcical experiments in seeing if I can turn a web component into not-a-web-component, and I've found answers you don't want to hear

How to live down the fear of being fired

Runtime, Build time, Parsing and Execution

How to prevent merge commits when pulling from remote to local, or merging from feature to remote main.

After years of nose to the keyboard, you've unlocked a level of ultra-learning you could not have imagined!

How to find support, when to ask, and what to ask to get help faster

Storytime for your career doldrums

An overview of unit testing with Storybook for components in design systems

Setting up visual regression testing as part of build pipelines

Just knowing I'm a dev

For those of us who can't let go

Basic runtime performance testing for an app that used multiple, possibly-very-long-forms

Looking for cheap options to support a crappy browser in a pay-to-play world

So you want to help?

Oops, I did it again -_-

The options, oh the options!

Another this-vs-that post from a dev who got comfortable with React D:

From Imposter to Candidate

Because it's just impossible to fit the dev ecosystem into a 10 week crash course

The race to the bottom is here and I'm scavenging.

Taking stock of being a millennial with a second career and two terminations in two years

Hack job on deploying a Node app

A month in queries

Some things I discovered whilst debugging an ad banner for a code test.

Writing Markup Like it's 1996.