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Indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.George MacDonald

Engineering, Systems & General Postulations

In pursuit of the timeless and great as it pertains to accomplishing amazing things with other people.

AI is the New Medium

AI isn't just a tool for creating content within the mediums we already know. AI is the new medium.

7 min read

Webflow Design Language

Learn about the structurally edited language that powers sites built with Webflow.

2 min read

Using Webflow with Netlify

Configure Netlify to send particular routes to Webflow so that you can selectively serve pages that are designed and hosted on Webflow.

3 min read

JSON Lisp

Learn about how programming languages work as we design & implement a little Lisp-like language called JSON Lisp.

14 min read

Lazy Evaluation in JavaScript

JavaScript's call by sharing and getter semantics allow us to implement lazy evaluation for field access.

8 min read

No Code is Eating Software

Marc Andreessen was right, software is eating the world! Today more people can create software than ever and this trend will only continue as No Code eats software.

2 min read

Lessons from Lean Manufacturing

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

6 min read

Art of Abstraction

Monorepos & packages seem to be all the rage. However, simply relocating code to a package doesn’t make it more valuable. In fact, it can make it more expensive & introduce unexpected risks! The real value comes from good abstractions.

3 min read

Cost of Consensus

Alignment is Precious. The cost of alignment increases proportional to the number of agents that need to be aligned.

15 min read

Headless User Interface Components

A headless component is a component that offers maximum visual flexibility by providing no interface.

9 min read

Function as Child Components

Function as Child Components a useful technique for higher order components.

8 min read

Single State Tree + Flux

A brief Flux explanation as a pre-cursor for single state tree goodness.

8 min read

Extensible Web Summit

Developers, standards bodies, and browser implementors all working together to progress the web.

5 min read

Scenario vs. Problem Solving

Scenario solving versus problem solving and its consequences for the artifact produced.

1 min read

JavaScript Dependency Injection

A quick explanation of how the AngularJS dependency injector works, and how you could write your own simplified JavaScript dependency injection library.

8 min read

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