Journal

January 23, 2020
My perfect next gig
August 4, 2017
Adding React to a Middleman project with Webpack
July 9, 2017
How to name and organize your React components
July 8, 2017
Limiting beliefs and the tech industry
July 7, 2017
Why aren't more companies hiring independent consultants?
July 3, 2017
Consultant vs. Freelancer
June 4, 2017
How is prototyping different?
June 1, 2017
What is prototyping?
May 28, 2017
How long will it take for you to deliver my MVP application?
April 26, 2017
Complexity is a multiplier
April 24, 2017
Learning Elm
March 27, 2017
Things you might notice if we work together
March 20, 2017
How to position yourself to bill clients weekly instead of hourly
March 18, 2017
The tools I use & why I use them
March 16, 2017
How losing all my hair has changed my perspective in tech
March 16, 2017
Nine ways to kick ass on a remote team
March 15, 2017
Why React will make UI designers redundant... eventually
March 10, 2017
How to build your own products without burning out
March 8, 2017
How to vet a freelance developer when you aren't technical yourself
January 3, 2017
Use Slack's Incoming Webhooks from your Rails app
January 2, 2017
Send visitor HTML form data to Slack with Formbot
December 28, 2016
Why I stopped billing hourly and you should too
December 26, 2016
Testing ES6 React components with Enzyme's shallow rendering
December 24, 2016
How to set up a test runner for modern JavaScript using Webpack, Mocha, and Chai
December 24, 2016
Install CtrlP to save time hunting for files in Vim
December 23, 2016
Beware of making database queries in Goroutines
December 20, 2016
Alias your common Ruby commands for a faster workflow
December 20, 2016
Remap ESC key in Vim for better ergonomics
December 20, 2016
Too many connections using PostgreSQL with Golang
December 19, 2016
Fixing Postgres errors after an ungraceful shutdown on your Mac
December 19, 2016
Fixing a Ruby crash using Middleman 4.1x with Ruby 2.3.0
December 19, 2016
How to bind React component event handlers in ES6
December 19, 2016
Naming conventions for modern JavaScript
December 19, 2016
Why doesn't React immediately mutate state when calling setState?
November 1, 2016
So you're really good at hammers
August 28, 2015
Slack, the ultimate workday distractor
July 29, 2015
Your best candidates demand to work remotely
July 27, 2015
Using jQuery Deferred to wait for multiple Backbone models to save
July 22, 2015
How to authenticate Instagram in a command line application
July 15, 2015
Software is 10% Code
March 3, 2013
Why I'll Always Be A Mercenary
July 1, 2012
Tmux for Vim users
April 30, 2012
Using HTML data attributes to elegantly create Mixpanel trackers
March 20, 2012
A Jasmine matcher for Backbone.js Event Expectations
December 22, 2011
RVM, Ruby 1.9.3, Homebrew and PostgreSQL make me want to kill babies
June 5, 2007
ruby-wmii SVN log notifier
May 7, 2007
API Hell: The Rise of Application Frameworks and the Fall of Sanity
May 6, 2007
Which Programming Language Am I?
March 16, 2007
Javascript Inheritance Diagrams with GraphViz and Base.js
May 16, 2006
Giving Rails its own GUI
July 26, 2005
Adventures into Python