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17 articles on engineering, tooling, and the craft of building software. Newest first, grouped by year. The AI writing has its own page.

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featured	17 Side Projects I Built With Claude Code in Two Months
featured	I Built an AI-Friendly UI Pattern Library
popular	Common React Hooks Antipatterns and Gotchas
popular	The Simplest CSS Grids

Key: DG Digital Garden (engineering, opinions, deep dives) · DT Demystifying Tools (practical walkthroughs of command-line tools).

2026

2026-03-12
Demystifying awk DT
A practical introduction to awk for printing fields, filtering rows, formatting output, and writing useful one-liners.
2026-02-23
17 Side Projects I Built With Claude Code in Two Months DG
From TUI apps in Rust and Go to browser games and AI agent tooling.
2026-01-28
Demystifying Git Worktrees DT
Check out different branches as separate folders while sharing Git data.
2026-01-08
Common React Hooks Antipatterns and Gotchas DG
Common React Hooks antipatterns and how to avoid them for better code quality.
2026-01-08
The Simplest CSS Grids DG
Copy-pastable CSS Grid layouts for two-column pages, sidebar navigation, and more.

2025

2025-08-23
Demystifying ffmpeg DT
The basics of ffmpeg.

2024

2024-03-13
Constants vs Enums in TypeScript DG
TypeScript tips and tricks.
2024-03-03
Build React UI Library (notes) DG
Notes on building a React UI library.
2024-03-01
Where did my blog go? DG
A statement on where my extensive blog has gone.
2024-03-01
Throwback Thursday: The Site Through Time DG
A look at the site through time, from its inception to now.

2020

2020-12-07
Demystifying the Find command DT
The Find command made simple.
2020-06-26
Using Postgres FOR loop to generate data DG
How to use Postgres FOR loops to generate test data quickly.
2020-04-09
Demystifying GREP DT
Cheatsheet: search for a keyword in a file.
2020-02-17
Demystifying Rsync DT
Rsync made simple.
2020-02-09
Demystifying the TAR command DT
The cheatsheet for tar.

2018

2018-04-18
How to "grep" in PowerShell DG
New to PowerShell? Here's how to "grep" using built-in PowerShell utilities.
2018-04-06
How I Structure My JavaScript File DG
Practices and recommendations for writing JavaScript files, learned through years of writing JavaScript.

Older Dev.to posts (2017–2023) such as "Why I love TMUX" and "My Top 10 Programming Proverbs" are kept as metadata only, until their pages come back.

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Digital Garden 11 articles: Engineering, opinions, deep dives, and everything in between.
Demystifying Tools 7 articles: Practical guides that break down common command-line tools and utilities into easy-to-understand tutorials with real-world examples.
I, AI series · 3 of 5 parts published: A fictional short story series exploring artificial intelligence, consciousness, and the boundaries between machine and mind.