My Articles

I self-published an eBook, and found it to be a complicated process compared to tooling for software engineers. This article goes over the process and my thoughts around it.

JavaScript as a language is heavily asynchronous, with promises being deeply integrated. While this is sometimes the best solution, can the overhead of promises pose a problem for hot code?

2024 has been an interesting year for JavaScript. These are the projects I'll be watching, as well as the projects that I'm leaving behind.

My site has used Gatsby since 2019, but that framework is abandoned. I've moved to Vike, a framework built on top of Vite, and I'm loving it.

Knip is a great tool for identifying and cleaning up unused code, and you can make it even more powerful using their preprocessor feature.

Web bundlers such as Webpack are a great tool to deploy web apps, but for more complex programs, bundle size can quickly become an issue.

Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP, is a web technology championed by Google to improve the browsing experience on mobile devices. Throughout this article, I'll outline a few of the issues that led me to ditch AMP.

NextJS is a framework that I've been using for a few years now. As a framework, I love it. In terms of deployment, though, I've never felt a NextJS site was 'stable'.

I recently changed my name, and the experiences I've had with a vast majority of services has been outright horrific. Tech companies should strive to make sure that this information should be user-modifiable.

Recently I had an experience involving the LastPass bug bounty program that didn’t end quite how I would’ve liked.

Exceptions are commonly used for flow control in Java, but how well do they perform compared to return values?

This article goes over embedding a Google Web Toolkit (GWT) application on a React website, and a few considerations that must be made when doing so.

JavaScript may not seem to be the ideal language to manipulate large amounts of data. This post goes over a few key problem areas and how you can avoid them.

I recently read Asana's blog post on TypeScript quirks and took particular interest in the first TypeScript quirk they mention. While it may seem like an inconsistency, the way the type system behaves here is entirely logical.

This article goes over the various development tools for Java development, each one's benefits, and my preference based on working with them.

If you need help with open-source projects, there are a few things you can keep in mind so you can find a solution sooner, and help out the developers at the same time.