Journal
Notes on engineering leadership
Field notes on the CTO job - architecture decisions, hiring, managing founders, and building software deliberately.
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16 Sep 2026
Debugging Against Your Own Prediction Engine
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23 Jul 2026
Determining Determinism, Non-Deterministically
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15 Jul 2026
Contract-Driven Development: Write the Truth Once
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10 Jul 2026
Hot Potato: How Projects Actually Get Shipped
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22 Jan 2026
Meet Somna
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05 Jan 2026
So You're About To Do Your First Conference Talk
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18 Nov 2025
Amygdala's Determinism, Good Will Hunting & Gut Feel: A Playbook for Developers Building With Intelligence
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15 Oct 2025
Building Devdle: Notes from the Neon Arcade
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16 Sep 2025
fintech_devcon 2025 Talk: Securing a Banking Platform's API + UI
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04 Jul 2025
AI Struggles To Help You Think
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17 Apr 2025
The Problem → Solution → Impact Gap
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02 Apr 2025
Principles & Implementation: Lessons in Surviving the Transient Nature of Software Engineering
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13 Mar 2025
Solving vs. Augmenting: The Developer's Dilemma in a New Codebase
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05 Mar 2025
How I Led a High-Performing Engineering Team Without Micromanaging
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25 Feb 2025
The Software Engineer Spectrum: Speed vs. Accuracy
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19 Feb 2025
Migrating 160,000 Lines of Production Banking JavaScript to TypeScript with Zero Downtime
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12 Feb 2025
Getting Real(about)Time
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29 Jan 2025
Does it work, how you want it to, most of the time?
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28 Jan 2025
Securing a Banking UI & API: Lessons From a Fintech CTO
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14 Jan 2025
10 Ways I Approach Engineering Leadership That Doesn't Leave Me Hating Myself
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10 Jan 2025
Entangled Interfaces: A Quantum Leap in UI Engineering with React
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11 Dec 2024
Understanding Systems: A Journey Through Chaos, Meaning, and Observation
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28 Mar 2023
Chaos Engineering: Jurassic Park & Distributed Systems
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05 Nov 2020
The 3-Phase Time-off Schedule for Contractors
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15 Jun 2018
On Starting
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23 Mar 2018
Notes on using Vue and React in production
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17 Aug 2017
Making Jekyll workflow a bit better
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28 Jul 2016
Creating a real-time test automation platform for Cisco with React & WebSockets…and React Native
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24 Jul 2016
Hello Speculo - easy colour palette visualisation
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24 Mar 2015
Everything Changes But You
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11 Nov 2014
Creating a dynamic search page for your Jekyll blog using JavaScript
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25 Apr 2014
iOS for Web Developers: Building Permeate
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02 Mar 2014
Building a Backendless Web App in 2 Hours
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29 Jan 2014
Easy Peasy Equal Heights
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03 Jan 2014
News vs. Information Seeking
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21 Nov 2013
Hosting your Blog or Portfolio on GitHub
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13 Nov 2013
Rewriting History with Backbone.js
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29 Oct 2013
Options are the devil
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23 Oct 2013
Too Scared To Write A Line Of Code
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26 Sep 2013
The Principle of Least Power
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19 Sep 2013
Make it Personal
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25 Aug 2013
Open Source is kinda weird
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09 Jun 2013
A Backbone View to a Kill
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02 Jun 2013
Jekyll In 15 Minutes
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24 Mar 2013
Patterns for Managing Large Scale Backbone Applications
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03 Mar 2013
useCapture demystified
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15 Feb 2013
The Unseen Revisions
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29 Jan 2013
setTimeout - a temporary hack
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24 Jan 2013
APIs
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11 Jan 2013
On Heisenberg.js
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05 Jan 2013
Underlying Passion
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30 Dec 2012
Mobile Last
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17 Dec 2012
Twitter Bootstrap
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11 Dec 2012
Smashing Magazine's The Mobile Book
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03 Dec 2012
Using jQuery custom events in your Object Literal and Observer Pattern applications
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30 Oct 2012
From jQuery to JavaScript and back again
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21 Oct 2012
Set up your own GitHub page
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06 Sep 2012
The obsession with responsive websites
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22 Jul 2012
A quick start JavaScript class structure
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05 Jul 2012
Hire Yourself, You Won't Look Back
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03 Jul 2012
Say Yes To Everything
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24 Jun 2012
Others Are Better Than You, Get Over it
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05 Jan 2012
Newcomers to web design, don't be put off
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