Will Hackett

A detailed investigation into iCloud Mail's filtering failures, broken rules system, and unresponsive support that led to missed contracts and a migration to Fastmail.

The worst kind of bad hire isn't the one who does nothing, it's the one who creates chaos to justify their existence.

A tongue-in-cheek conspiracy theory pondering whether Cloudflare's ubiquitous presence as a CDN, DNS provider, and certificate authority could be the perfect cover for surveillance.

Why the most successful B2B SaaS products like Canva, Shopify, and Notion started as beloved consumer tools before conquering enterprise markets.

Building a DIY screenshot sharing solution using Cloudflare R2, Workers, and Siri Shortcuts as an alternative to CleanShot X's cloud features.

A frustrated rant about JIRA's clunky interface and poor user experience after switching back from Linear's elegant project management.

Recently talking with a company that needs to provide real-time collaboration within their application, I started to think about the problem.

I often see developers merging main into their feature branches and opening pull requests (PRs) that include commits from other branches.

Jamie is a project I embarked on to build a human-like virtual assistant that I could CC on emails to take care of my admin.

Sharing large amounts of data over short-form mediums like QR codes or NFC tags can be challenging.

In Service-oriented Architectures (SOA) the "services" are the fundamental building blocks of your application.

Running models closer to your users can be a huge win for performance and cost.

Straightforward solution for composing a bunch of React Provider components to avoid excessive nesting.

Cloudflare's UI for managing DNS records is nice, but this method can help you import larger batches of changes faster.

I'm a member of a few software teams and, very frequently, we commit code to our main branch.

Being an avid user of Apple's products, one of the standout features that I enjoy is the on-device processing of my personal data.

This coding challenge is part of a series I will be posting for TypeScript & Golang, although it can be completed in other languages.

Building fast systems can be tricky and distributed computing is often the approach taken to improve performance.

How to implement Mocha & Chai unit testing in Keystone JS.

Let's Encrypt is a new Certificate Authority that's serious about democratizing SSL on the internet.