My Articles

A few weeks after getting my TRMNL X e‑ink screen, I tried building my own plugins. The process was surprisingly different from what I expected.

Most JavaScript tooling is being rewritten in non-JS languages. Is this a sign that JavaScript is bad, or is it a sign that we’re finally taking it seriously and forcing it to mature?

Last year I wrote an article about what I was going to keep an eye on in 2025 in the JS ecosystem. It was fun and introspective to write, so here’s the 2026 edition.

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.

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.

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'.

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