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Today I was thinking about tests.

You may be proud of the application you just built and release to the world. But users will only use 20% of it and will despise the other 80. Your goal is to...

Some technical notes on how and why we moved from WordPress to Jekyll, a well-known static site generator (SSG).

Code is read more than written, code is run more than read. I think this line of thought can be extended beyond code-writing, and used as a rule of thumb to...

Five git commands that tell you where a codebase hurts before you open a single file. Churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns.

For eight years, I’ve wanted a high-quality set of devtools for working with SQLite. Given how important SQLite is to the industry1, I’ve long been puzzled that...

On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.

Watch someone backspace 40 characters instead of pressing CTRL+W, and you’ll understand why this list exists. A collection of shell tricks-grouped by what wo...

Looking foolish is underrated.

Best practices remain remarkably static

By now, every dev (and business leader) feels some type of way about AI. How could we not? Every time you open the news, listen to a podcast, or visit your...

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

RAM prices are, frankly, insultingly high. Like so ridiculously high it's absurd. It's got me thinking: We need better software. Electron, Windows, Chrome, D...

Old-fashioned approaches to creating software often encourage us to think of the activities involved as stages or phases in the process: the design phase, the...

Everyone's worried about slop, but good code will prevail, not only because we want it to, but because economic forces demand it.

A reflection on how JavaScript self-sustains itself through never-ending novelty

Too much JavaScript is bad, no JavaScript isn't better

Monitoring the field doesn't feel like learning new things anymore. It feels like reading a never ending flow of brand content updates similar to consumer tech...