Posts tagged #essay

Your side-projects deserve a decisive, merciful death at your hands. You dragged them into this world, you'll fling them out. And do it quickly. I want to talk about killing our much beloved side-projects, and why this is totally a good idea. Then I want to talk about why this...

Tiny Thoughts are little (500 word) essays. They're concise. Hypothesis: Frontend engineering cannot exist in isolation from backend technologies. What sparked this: Thinking about building the next generation of web software at Oxwash. All software is either... Used by a human for a human-scale (i.e. nebulous and larger) task like...

2020 has been a terrible year in so, so many ways for so, so many people. At the very least, the Covid-19 pandemic has stolen a year from us all. I would say most of us have gone through a personal and collective trauma this year. I do not believe...

Tiny Thoughts are little (500 word) essays. They're concise. I make user interfaces, and I often participate in, or lead, the process of designing these interfaces. For a while I thought I wanted to transition fully into a design role. Ultimately I am drawn to the certainty and craft of...

Tiny Thoughts are little (500 word) essays. They're concise. I've spent the past three months consciously trying to write and read more. I want to improve my ability to refine and communicate thought, and doing it in public helps motivate me to produce work. One of the hardest problems I...

A few months ago a prominent figure in the tech and software space was uninvited from a conference\[^1]. In an (intentionally humorous) summary of this person, Melissa McEwan wrote a Tech Bullshit Explained about the person. I don't want to talk about any of allegations or (tellingly-immature) reactions to the...

I like building software, or parts of software, which are visual and interactive. I do not particularly enjoy the more abstract, very important, areas like technical optimisation, language design, or anything with the word "distributed" in it. I like building user interfaces (UIs); but also architecting and engineering the code...