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When you ask me to build software…

Jan 15, 2025 · 2 min read · What does it mean to “build software”? Is it the same thing as “coding”? AI seems to write code pretty well, so why bother leveraging a software engineer? Keep reading and you’ll find out. This is not a post I had any intention of writing until recen...

You probably don't need Next.js

Feb 9, 2024 · 9 min read · Picking a tech stack is hard. Even when the choice seems simple, it’s often laced with complexity and nuance that might not be immediately obvious. There’s tradeoffs and pitfalls. Cost and performance. The list goes on. I just finished rebuilding har...

Use TypeScript interfaces instead of ESLint PropTypes validation

Sep 13, 2021 · 4 min read · In my TypeScript experimentation, I encountered an ESLint error I couldn't seem to resolve. The error had to do with PropType validation failing in the presence of what I believed to be a sufficient TypeScript interface to cover the props used by the...

Relaunching the Daylight Graph

Feb 8, 2021 · 2 min read · Back in 2013, I launched this little web app that calculated the sunrise and sunset times of the visitor and displayed a nice graph of the total amount of daylight over time. The app was primarily for my dad, since at the time, his method for calcula...

Game Boy gaming across the web with friends

Nov 8, 2020 · 5 min read · My friend and I were recently feeling nostalgic and really wanted to play some first-generation Pokémon. We don't live anywhere near each other, but we wanted to have the experience of "watching over the shoulder" of whoever currently "had the contro...