Generated content has been around for ages. I remember dreaming of video games with unlimited territory to explore, with the obvious solution being for the terrain to be generated by some clever algorithm. As it turned out, every time I actually played a game where something was generated, the experience…

Index.js files are a “cute” feature that Ryan Dahl came up with when he designed Node.js. While he officially regrets them, I think they have evolved to be a useful tool for structuring code. In this post, I will try to articulate the rules that I had made up for…

Sorry, this is a bit of a rant. My preferred routing library for React has been Raviger for a while but recently I needed to figure out how the most recent version of React Router works. …

15 years ago I felt like the world was improving at record speeds because of technological advances. And I was a part of it. Not that I did anything particularly influential, but I identified with the tech sector and it felt like “my people” were freeing the world of the…

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…