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18 articles on engineering, tooling, and the craft of building software.
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A look at 17 side projects I built in about two months with Claude Code -- from TUI apps in Rust and Go to browser games and AI agent tooling.
A UI pattern library where every pattern ships the prompt that rebuilds it, so a coding agent can put it in your codebase instead of you copying CSS.
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Learn about common React Hooks antipatterns and how to avoid them for better code quality.
Learn the most common CSS Grid layouts with copy-pastable examples for two-column layouts, sidebar navigation, and more.
Digital Garden: engineering, opinions, deep-dives, and everything in between. Demystifying Tools: practical walkthroughs of common command-line tools and utilities.
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A practical introduction to awk for printing fields, filtering rows, formatting output, and writing useful one-liners.
A look at 17 side projects I built in about two months with Claude Code -- from TUI apps in Rust and Go to browser games and AI agent tooling.
Learn how to work with multiple Git branches simultaneously using worktrees - a powerful feature that lets you check out different branches as separate folders while sharing Git data.
Learn about common React Hooks antipatterns and how to avoid them for better code quality.
Learn the most common CSS Grid layouts with copy-pastable examples for two-column layouts, sidebar navigation, and more.
The basics of ffmpeg
TypeScript tips and tricks
Notes on building a React UI library.
A statement on where my extensive blog has gone.
A look at the site through time, from its inception to now.
A UI pattern library where every pattern ships the prompt that rebuilds it, so a coding agent can put it in your codebase instead of you copying CSS.
The Find command made simple
I don't know about you but I often need a 100 of something in my database to properly test a page. Here's how to use Postgres FOR loops to generate test data quickly.
Cheatsheet: search for a keyword in a file
Rsync made simple
The cheatsheet for tar
New to PowerShell? Here's how to "grep" using built-in PowerShell utilities.
Check out my practices and recommendations on writing JavaScript files that I've learned through writing JavaScript for years.
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