17 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.
Articles readers keep coming back to.
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.
Engineering, opinions, deep-dives, and everything in between.
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Pl. DG-2026-11A 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Practical walkthroughs of common command-line tools and utilities.
Pl. DT-2026-07A practical introduction to awk for printing fields, filtering rows, formatting output, and writing useful one-liners.
Pl. DT-2026-06Learn 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.
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Pl. DT-2020-04The Find command made simple
Pl. DT-2020-03Cheatsheet: search for a keyword in a file
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Pl. DT-2020-01Multi-part journeys, read in order.
I, AI — a fictional short story series. 5 parts planned, 3 published. Lili and Sophie investigate AIs that fail in very human ways.
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