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Backing up my life with a Synology NAS

April 23, 2024 - Data in a public cloud is out of your control, that's why I decided to create my own private cloud in my office.

Managing your to-do-list as a staff+ engineer

April 20, 2024 - With great agency comes responsibility – to yourself. Learn how to triage your projects and tasks into a structured to-do list.

What's the difference between JavaScript engines and JavaScript runtimes?

March 26, 2024 - Runtimes and engines are often incorrectly referred to as the same thing.

Introducing humanfs (formerly fsx): A modern filesystem API for JavaScript

January 10, 2024 - Filesystem APIs in JavaScript runtimes haven't been great for a long time. This is my attempt to make a better one.

JavaScript WTF: Why does every() return true for empty arrays?

September 8, 2023 - How can a condition be satisified when there aren't any values to test?

Managing your interrupt rate as a tech lead, part 3: Office hours and appointment blocks

August 1, 2023 - You can more easily eliminate interruptions when you create a specific time for them.

Managing your interrupt rate as a tech lead, part 2: Time blocking

July 25, 2023 - Your calendar is a place where you should be in control and not be at the whims of others who send you invites.

Managing your interrupt rate as a tech lead, part 1: You get more of what you reward

July 18, 2023 - Many of the interruptions that fill up your day aren't necessary. Here's how to start taming your interrupt rate.

Disabling paste in textboxes is not a security feature

July 3, 2023 - This common, and annoying, pattern on many government and financial websites causes more problems than it solves.

Automating tweets with Twitter API v2

April 18, 2023 - As Twitter disables many apps that use the v1.1 API, it's time to learn how to automate tweets using v2.

Creating a Jekyll-style blog post URL in Astro

March 14, 2023 - It's not obvious from the examples, but you can emulate Jekyll-style blog post URLs including years and months in Astro.

Creating a Jekyll-style blog post year archive in Astro

February 14, 2023 - While not included in their default blog template, it is straightforward to create a year-based archive for your posts in Astro.

Setting up a Rust development environment with Visual Studio Code

December 15, 2022 - Getting started with Rust development takes a few more steps than with other web-based programming languages.

Sponsoring dependencies: The next step in open source sustainability

June 14, 2022 - We are at a point in open source development where it's become clear that not all projects have the same opportunity to receive funding and maintainers are the key to fixing this.

Making your open source project sponsor-ready, Part 3: Accepting sponsorships

December 28, 2021 - When your project is ready to accept sponsorships from companies, there are several things you can do to improve your chances. This post describes how to prepare your project to ensure sponsorships can start flowing in.

Making your open source project sponsor-ready, Part 2: Project hygiene

December 21, 2021 - Attracting sponsors isn't always about reaching directly. Sometimes it's about doing the little things right that make your project successful.

Making your open source project sponsor-ready, Part 1: Companies and trust

December 14, 2021 - Your open source project is starting to gain momentum and it's time to start seeking sponsorships. Here's how to get started.

How to talk to your company about sponsoring an open source project

May 18, 2021 - Sustainable open source funding begins and ends with companies providing money for the value they're receiving.

The lazy-loading property pattern in JavaScript

April 20, 2021 - You can defer computationally-expensive operations until needed using an accessor property.

Two approaches to win an argument as a software engineer

March 16, 2021 - Software engineers are identified with strong opinions. Here's how to get your point across effectively.

Introducing Env: a better way to read environment variables in JavaScript

February 16, 2021 - Reading environment variables in JavaScript is fraught with peril. Env makes it better.

Creating a JavaScript promise from scratch, Part 7: Unhandled rejection tracking

January 19, 2021 - Rejected promises without rejection handlers can hide important errors, which is why both Node.js and browsers have a way of tracking them.

Creating a JavaScript promise from scratch, Part 6: Promise.all() and Promise.allSettled()

December 16, 2020 - Promise.all() and Promise.allSettled() work on any number of promises to allow you to know when all of the promises have resolved

Creating a JavaScript promise from scratch, Part 5: Promise.race() and Promise.any()

November 24, 2020 - Promise.race() and Promise.any() work on any number of promises to allow you to know when certain ones have resolved

Creating a JavaScript promise from scratch, Part 4: Promise.resolve() and Promise.reject()

October 13, 2020 - Promises created with Promise.resolve() and Promise.reject() go through a different process than when created with a constructor.

Creating a JavaScript promise from scratch, Part 3: then(), catch(), and finally()

October 6, 2020 - Promise handlers are where all of the asynchronous actions happens and it helps to look at the internals to understand how they work.

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