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

Successfully delivering on long-term engineering projects often requires structuring them around stepping stones that deliver concrete value and illuminate “unknown unknowns”.

“Bro, ban me at the IP level if you don't like me!”

Most of what modern software engineers do involves APIs: public interfaces for communicating with a program, like this one from Twilio. I’ve spent a lot of time…

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

<marks>Adverting sucks.</mark> It's insidious, pervasive and outright malicious. [So, block ads.](/posts/2023/i-block-ads)

Why we need a different term for best practice

if you are burnt out from replacing the software, hosters, tools you use every few weeks and keep deleting and remaking, this might be for you

“What if I actually have already achieved everything I’m going to achieve in my life,” Dan Mall asks. “What does it feel like to live like someone where everything new is a bonus, not a desire...

SVGs are one of the most remarkable technologies we have access to on the web. They’re first-class citizens, fully addressable with CSS and JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll cover all of the most important fundamentals, and show you some of the ridiculously-cool things we can do with this massively underrated tool. ✨

PHP is still one of the best ways to get started on the web.

A little over a decade ago, Paul Graham popularized “Do things that don’t scale.” The idea was: at first, you do the scrappy, personal, labor-intensive stuff just to get traction… and then you figure…

A summarization of some traps to developers. There traps are unintuitive things that are easily misunderstood and cause bugs.

I see a lot of bad system design advice. One classic is the LinkedIn-optimized “bet you never heard of queues” style of post, presumably aimed at people who are…

From the Zed Blog: Writing code is only one part of effective software engineering.

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

Modern college students aren’t organizing their files into folders and directories, forcing some professors to rethink the way they teach programming.

How to select an AI technology and vendor, think about its implications, and apply it to your business.

Cross-Site Request Forgery countermeasures can be greatly simplified using request metadata provided by modern browsers.

How do we know if students are learning if ChatGPT is doing the work?