All the articles I've archived.
Built Phucking Cards, a free Cards Against Humanity clone for 3-20 players. Runs on Express + Socket.IO + Redis. Ran into some interesting problems with timeout propagation, mobile touch events, and callback registration.
Took a Windows-only BusyTag widget and made it work on macOS. Found some fun bugs involving file buffering and learned why fsync() matters.
Color-coding is intuitive — until it isn't. For millions of color-blind users, red and green look identical. Here's why symbols aren't optional, they're essential.
How I became a hosting provider connoisseur by migrating from localhost to Render to Fly.io to Hetzner—all because of a memory-hungry sprite sheet and basic economics.
A complete walkthrough of migrating the Image Optimizer API from Render to Fly.io, achieving 4x memory increase (512MB → 2GB) at a lower cost while solving memory limit issues with large image processing.
The story of forking an abandoned planning poker app and giving it a complete technical refresh: Vite, Tailwind CSS, 52% bundle reduction, and modern developer experience.
A deep dive into building Image Optimizer — a privacy-focused image optimization service that started as a simple utility and grew into a full-featured API with CLI tools, spritesheet packing, and developer-friendly features.
How migrating from Jib to a transparent Docker-based workflow simplified and unified our build pipelines across multiple services.
AI may overuse emojis, but in developer logs they're more than decoration. Here's why ✅, ❌, ⚠️, and ℹ️ deserve a place in your terminal.
Practical Git commands that save you time, recover lost work, and help you debug faster. Think of this as your essential Git cheatsheet.
How to eliminate human error in blog timestamps by pulling the last modified date directly from the filesystem in Next.js.
A Python script to automatically clean up GitHub notifications by marking closed or merged issues and pull requests as done.
How I built a CLI tool to create YouTube playlists from my subscriptions, with quota-aware API calls, OAuth caching, and no frontend.
Learn how to use wget and parallel to download thousands of images from a URL list, with setup instructions and syntax examples for macOS.
A few handy CLI snippets and notes to remember how to quickly create or overwrite files using the terminal.
Learn how to set up jBPM on macOS using Docker, including prerequisites like Xcode CLI, Homebrew, and verification steps for Docker installation.
A discussion on currying and partial application in JavaScript with practical examples including React's connect and letter ciphering.
Lessons learned while extending a Gatsby blog with images, and the pitfalls of outdated tutorials when working with fast-moving frameworks.
A walkthrough of using docker-compose override files to manage local image tags, avoid committing dev-specific changes, and support multiple configurations.
A parable from The Way of Testivus on how testing coverage goals depend on context — and how some developers just want simple answers.
A script to automate resolution of common merge conflict patterns using bash.