David Mosher's Blog

State machines are the answer for those seeking determinism in the era of AI agents.

LLMs make great "digital archivists," resurrecting old sites and finding lost assets via the Wayback Machine.

Sora is a surprisingly capable idea generator for gamedev pre-production.

Post-generation checks in Sora 2 flagged my remix after an unexpected voice segment appeared.

Smarts™ aren't your career bottleneck; staying engaged in hard conversations is, especially when the plan isn't yours.

As an employee, you have a management cost that you can reduce by making frequent deposits in your trust bank.

If you're experienced and prefer code to prose, you can explore the code on github or npx degit davemo/nodejs-tool-dev-template.

Keys to evaluating software performance: investigate, profile, and identify the missing fundamental.

Using Svelte, we can reimagine the presentation layer of a web application as a state machine.

Dependable is a dependency injection framework for Node.js Recently, Michael Schoonmaker, Joshua Starkey, and myself got together to brainstorm some improvements we wanted to make to an open source library called Dependable that we had used on a client pr…

As software-consultants, building trust should be our number one goal, but we have to remember that building trust takes time.

A screencast that covers a number of techniques on evaluating the performance of React applications.

You can improve the DX of Makefiles using some simple target annotations and some parsing with grep and awk.

A continuation of my exploration of AngularJS and advanced directives through a screencast.

Think hard before you quit your job.

A basic introduction to getting started with React Native.

Creating DSLs (domain-specific languages) can be a path to useful abstraction, but it can also lead to complexity.

AngularJS treats HTML as a DSL, allowing us to create abstractions using markup through its concept of directives.

When we prioritize technical depth over empathy, we run the risk of over-indexing on coding skills when valuing software developers.

Choosing a testing strategy has more to do with selecting the right level of fidelity than selecting the right testing framework.