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Starting a Frontend Guild: Making Enjoyable Meetings

1/7/2026

I started a frontend guild at my current employer. Not to teach, but to listen. One hour a month, three parts - one for update, two for others. That two-to-one ratio led to a 10x reduction in API traffic and made meetings people actually wanted to attend.

How RFCs Outlived My Employer

12/29/2025

From implementing internet RFCs across healthcare apps to writing internal RFCs at Hashicorp - a deep dive into why a 50-year-old process remains the gold standard for making durable, high-quality decisions in distributed engineering organizations.

Wrestling with LLMs: The Parachute on the Dragster

12/22/2025

LLMs gave me a dragster engine - 10x output, extreme velocity. But going this fast without production infrastructure is a crash waiting to happen. Here's how LLMs help build both the engine AND the parachute.

Wrestling with LLMs: The Developer's New Hats

12/15/2025

After Phase 26 revealed catastrophic bugs Claude missed, I realized working with LLMs requires a fundamental role shift. I'm wearing different hats as PM and QA engineer, and handing my dev hat to the machine.

Wrestling with LLMs: Zen and the Art of Vibe Coding

12/12/2025

LLMs will confidently give wrong answers and repeat mistakes. Your natural response - sarcasm, frustration, blame - makes them worse. Zen practices offer a framework for staying calm and getting better outputs. Your vibe becomes the model's vibe.

Wrestling with LLMs: Managing Smarmy, Overconfident LLMs

12/9/2025

Claude told me dokku-dns was "production ready" and "enterprise grade" after 6 weeks. Then real world testing revealed everything was broken - some of it catastrophically so.

dokku-dns: Automated DNS Management for Self-Hosted Apps

12/4/2025

How dokku-dns eliminates manual DNS work through triggers and zones, making DNS management invisible.

My Dokku Homelab: Open Source Apps That Power My Digital Life

12/2/2025

A tour of the open source applications I self-host on Dokku, from photo management to home automation.

Why Dokku: The Power of PaaS Simplicity for the Busy Developer

12/1/2025

Dokku provides an elegant layer atop Docker for self-hosting, enabling professional-grade deployments without operational complexity.

What I’ve Liked About Trying Svelte as an Ember Dev

11/17/2025

A reflection on transitioning from Ember.js to SvelteKit, highlighting familiar patterns and key improvements.

Essential Development Tips for Robust and Maintainable Code

9/20/2016

A collection of battle-tested advice for writing cleaner, more resilient, and understandable code, drawing from years of professional experience.

Understanding Basic and Advanced Data Types in Programming

9/20/2016

A comprehensive guide to the fundamental and common advanced building blocks of information storage in computer programming.