Posts

I write about front-end architecture, engineering leadership, and the messy reality of building production systems. Most posts are either “here’s what I learned the hard way” or “here’s what I’m still trying to figure out.”

2025-11-21 Sucking at Something is the First Step
2024-08-13 Let it break
2024-08-05 I have big plans for this code
2024-06-01 What I’ve been up to
2023-05-29 Salesforce Commerce Cloud - Display a React app as a page in business manager
2023-04-23 Salesforce Commerce Cloud - React powered Custom Attribute Editors
2023-04-03 Runtime configuration for Mock Service Worker (MSW) with localStorage
2023-03-31 A nostalgia trip with Netlify
2023-01-06 Salesforce Commerce Cloud - Drag-and-drop support in page designer
2023-01-04 Salesforce Commerce Cloud - A headless CMS with React
2022-11-02 Your website has a carbon footprint
2022-08-10 Custom list styles with the css @counter-style rule
2022-08-01 Feature flags in a React app with GitLab's feature toggles
2022-04-12 Displaying a progress bar for a series of promises
2022-04-04 Lightweight templated pages with Alpine.js
2022-02-22 Using GitHub issues as a CMS
2021-11-06 Building an app using Gatsby, Firebase, and Sanity.io
2021-11-02 Monitoring subresource integrity issues on the client
2021-09-22 Using the Toggl Track API to automate a daily ritual with Python
2021-09-14 Designing APIs with the OpenAPI spec (v3.0)
2021-09-09 Ditching Tailwind.css and embracing MDX
2021-09-02 Automate git activities with Node
2021-08-20 Building a README badge image API with Python
2021-04-24 Using the Xcode iOS simulator CLI
2021-04-18 Building a component props editor with React
2021-04-04 Sets in JavaScript
2021-03-07 Expanding on my Google App Scripts text formatter
2021-02-08 Site improvements and changes for 2021
2020-10-22 Programmatic text formatting in Google Sheets with Google Apps Script
2020-08-04 Opacity in CSS hex color notation
2020-07-21 Migrating from Hugo to Gatsby
2020-06-15 Camping at Grundy Lake Provincial Park
2020-04-22 Building my own PC
2020-03-10 A CSS wheel of fortune
2020-01-08 Personal development goals for 2020
2019-07-09 A start to my General Transit Feed Specification project: GTFS to SQL
2019-06-25 Fixing the PHPStorm command line launcher
2019-06-16 Stack Upgrade: Ditching google Chrome for Firefox Quantum
2019-06-12 MacOS: Make TextEdit.app open new file on launch
2019-06-05 MacOS: Creating a right click option to copy a file path
2019-05-29 Recreating the field set <legend> effect, just without the field set
2019-03-30 A wild Chrome extension appears
2019-03-25 I think I’ve survived my first winter in Canada!
2019-02-24 A deep dive into the console API
2019-02-08 Fisticuffs with timezones in Javascript
2019-02-05 JavaScript Encryption with RSA and AES
2019-01-09 I emigrated to Canada!
2019-01-08 Moving from WordPress to Hugo
2018-08-22 CSS attribute selectors
2018-08-21 Getting started with SSH config
2018-07-23 Autocomplete branch names on the command line
2018-07-02 Fetch domain information in the command line
2018-06-29 Finding files by size with the command line
2018-06-04 Feature Flags WordPress Plugin
2018-06-04 Useful git commands
2018-05-30 zxcvbn – A sensible password strength estimator
2018-05-29 Long live the WordPress CLI
2018-04-04 Terminal Aliases
2018-03-20 Social Links
2018-03-19 Postcardware
2018-03-13 Quick Save (QS) – Side project
2018-03-13 Sending a variable as an attachment with PHP Mailer
2018-03-13 Zipping folder contents
2018-02-28 .htaccess redirects scratchpad
2018-01-31 Git/SSH Keys Personal Cheat sheet
2017-11-24 Article – Life as a Web Developer
2016-02-11 Aside from work, what do you do?
2016-01-18 Where was I when 2015 turned into 2016? Is that where I wanted to be?
2015-01-15 As long as human beings have the element of choice and exercise that element of choice, technology will stay the slave and man its master.

2025-11-21 Sucking at Something is the First Step
2024-08-13 Let it break
2024-08-05 I have big plans for this code
2024-06-01 What I’ve been up to
2023-05-29 Salesforce Commerce Cloud - Display a React app as a page in business manager
2023-04-23 Salesforce Commerce Cloud - React powered Custom Attribute Editors
2023-04-03 Runtime configuration for Mock Service Worker (MSW) with localStorage
2023-03-31 A nostalgia trip with Netlify
2023-01-06 Salesforce Commerce Cloud - Drag-and-drop support in page designer
2023-01-04 Salesforce Commerce Cloud - A headless CMS with React
2022-11-02 Your website has a carbon footprint
2022-08-10 Custom list styles with the css @counter-style rule
2022-08-01 Feature flags in a React app with GitLab's feature toggles
2022-04-12 Displaying a progress bar for a series of promises
2022-04-04 Lightweight templated pages with Alpine.js
2022-02-22 Using GitHub issues as a CMS
2021-11-06 Building an app using Gatsby, Firebase, and Sanity.io
2021-11-02 Monitoring subresource integrity issues on the client
2021-09-22 Using the Toggl Track API to automate a daily ritual with Python
2021-09-14 Designing APIs with the OpenAPI spec (v3.0)
2021-09-09 Ditching Tailwind.css and embracing MDX
2021-09-02 Automate git activities with Node
2021-08-20 Building a README badge image API with Python
2021-04-24 Using the Xcode iOS simulator CLI
2021-04-18 Building a component props editor with React
2021-04-04 Sets in JavaScript
2021-03-07 Expanding on my Google App Scripts text formatter
2021-02-08 Site improvements and changes for 2021
2020-10-22 Programmatic text formatting in Google Sheets with Google Apps Script
2020-08-04 Opacity in CSS hex color notation
2020-07-21 Migrating from Hugo to Gatsby
2020-06-15 Camping at Grundy Lake Provincial Park
2020-04-22 Building my own PC
2020-03-10 A CSS wheel of fortune
2020-01-08 Personal development goals for 2020
2019-07-09 A start to my General Transit Feed Specification project: GTFS to SQL
2019-06-25 Fixing the PHPStorm command line launcher
2019-06-16 Stack Upgrade: Ditching google Chrome for Firefox Quantum
2019-06-12 MacOS: Make TextEdit.app open new file on launch
2019-06-05 MacOS: Creating a right click option to copy a file path
2019-05-29 Recreating the field set <legend> effect, just without the field set
2019-03-30 A wild Chrome extension appears
2019-03-25 I think I’ve survived my first winter in Canada!
2019-02-24 A deep dive into the console API
2019-02-08 Fisticuffs with timezones in Javascript
2019-02-05 JavaScript Encryption with RSA and AES
2019-01-09 I emigrated to Canada!
2019-01-08 Moving from WordPress to Hugo
2018-08-22 CSS attribute selectors
2018-08-21 Getting started with SSH config
2018-07-23 Autocomplete branch names on the command line
2018-07-02 Fetch domain information in the command line
2018-06-29 Finding files by size with the command line
2018-06-04 Feature Flags WordPress Plugin
2018-06-04 Useful git commands
2018-05-30 zxcvbn – A sensible password strength estimator
2018-05-29 Long live the WordPress CLI
2018-04-04 Terminal Aliases
2018-03-20 Social Links
2018-03-19 Postcardware
2018-03-13 Quick Save (QS) – Side project
2018-03-13 Sending a variable as an attachment with PHP Mailer
2018-03-13 Zipping folder contents
2018-02-28 .htaccess redirects scratchpad
2018-01-31 Git/SSH Keys Personal Cheat sheet
2017-11-24 Article – Life as a Web Developer
2016-02-11 Aside from work, what do you do?
2016-01-18 Where was I when 2015 turned into 2016? Is that where I wanted to be?
2015-01-15 As long as human beings have the element of choice and exercise that element of choice, technology will stay the slave and man its master.