If I was a person who writes...

I'd have a list of blogs. I'd write to sharpen how I think about things. People who write well express themselves in a way that I find super appealing. This blog is my occasional attempt at that.

Zigging when others zag

There are a handful of skills that I need to get better at... read

Constraints are good (for velocity)

I don't believe acceptance criteria are useful. Kind of a hot take... read

TDD and LLMs

Things are weird. Just a couple years ago programming was a thing I did... read

Building in the age of AI.

Are we actually considering how we build entire companies in the age of LLMs? read

Disneyland is an informed bet, not an MVP.

What does Walt Disney have to tell us about MVPs. read

Deleting things will make the app you want.

We're all too precious. Code is moving faster than ever and we're deleting less stuff than ever. This is a bad approach. read

Grocery Driven Development

What looking away from Agile and how we currently think about building software might look like. read

AI won't take your job

Why I'm not at all concerned about AI taking my programming job. read

What if instead of Agile, we made it nice?

What if we're all just wrong about how to build software? read

Tables are hard in lots of ways

A bunch of examples of tables with React and Tailwind read

Interview Questions

I'm pretty godawful at interviewing. One path to improvement is to write my answer to some common interview questions. In theory, this practice will help my answers in real time be a little more structured. read

On hiring

I've been thinking about hiring. I struggle with interviews but typically perform at a high level. What's the disconnect? read

Testing state machines when loading from context

I was working with useActor for the first time and needed to force some state to write some tests. read

Learning Serverless Stack

I'm switching my workflow to serverless-stack. read

Helpful setup function patterns for testing

My personal pattern for testing. I picked this up from some folks at work and use it all the time now read