E2E type safety with tRPC

I am writing this because I’ve found myself telling it verbally a couple of times by now so maybe it’s worth putting into text. It may just exist in my little bubble, but it seems that there is some conventional wisdom that says that in negotiations, you should try to…

I was interviewed by Nick Janetakis for the Running In Production Podcast: Submotion Helps You Manage Access Control for Your SAAS Subscriptions In this episode of Running in Production, Kristian Dupont goes over building a SAAS app to manage access control to…runninginproduction.com We get into quite a few details about the architectural choices I’ve made for Submotion and how it all works together.

..ensuring sound mocks and supplying Typescript types. Submotion offers a central place to manage SaaS accounts and subscriptions. This is made possible by connecting to a bunch of third party API’s. It’s an amazing fact that so many companies expose API’s that allow you to integrate with their service, to…

I’ve been using this pattern for my JS/TS code for a while now and I think it works well for creating reusable test fixture logic: One of the hardest things about testing is establishing the context. You need test data that ideally reflects reality as closely as possible. End-to-end…

Tailwind CSS is so hot right now. And somewhat controversial, but I guess that only makes it even hotter. I’m a fan myself, I think the predefined sizes provide just the granularity necessary but no more. It’s sort of like going from drawing charts on blank paper to grid…

I love my new M1 Macbook Air. No fan but awesome performance. Working keyboard. And the feature of not having a touch bar is not only included but it’s the cheaper option — I would have paid money for that! I had two requirements for developing that I wanted to…

I was a deep and late sleeper until I was well into my thirties. I needed my alarm or I would miss half of the day. And then one day, something weird happened. Well, sadly, not that weird — hormones shifting, I am sure. I started waking up unprovoked at…

I’ve created a tool that extracts the schema of a Postgres database and generates Typescript types out of it. It’s called Kanel. It is not an ORM. I simply wanted types in my editor so that I could get autocomplete, and error messages if I forget a field or try…

Even if COVID-19 hasn’t impacted you directly, the extreme uncertainty of it all is almost certainly affecting you and perhaps stressing you out more than you realize. Personally, I am addicted to the news and I go off on tangents studying the Spanish Flu and other historical events that seem…