Writing

Notes on code, fatherhood, and figuring things out as I go.

2026

Building a CLI Tool That Accidentally Taught Me About Patience
code life Feb 12
The Saturday Morning Pancake Protocol
life Jan 28
Replacing 600 Lines of Bash with 40 Lines of Node
code Jan 14

2025

Twelve Things I Believed About Software That Turned Out to Be Wrong
code life Dec 30
Why I Stopped Using Docker Compose for Local Dev
code tools Dec 8
Teaching My Kid to Debug (She's Better at It Than I Am)
life code Nov 19
A Practical Guide to Streaming Server-Sent Events in Node.js
code Nov 2
The Toolbox Fallacy and the Side Project Graveyard
life Oct 15
Migrating 40 Repos from HTTPS to SSH Without Losing My Mind
code tools Sep 22
On Keeping a Physical Notebook in 2025
life Sep 3
Lessons from Running a Monorepo for Two Years
code Aug 11
The Summer I Tried to Unplug (and Mostly Failed)
life Jul 28
Writing Better Error Messages: A Small Act of Empathy
code Jul 5
How I Organize 100+ Git Repos Across Multiple GitHub Orgs
code tools Jun 14

2024

The Case for Boring Technology (Revisited)
code Dec 20
What Cooking Taught Me About API Design
code life Nov 30
Automating My Home Server with a Raspberry Pi and Stubbornness
code tools Oct 18