Software Engineering
How do you Know it Works?
2025-06-15
This is actually a reminder to myself. Slow down. Double check your starting assumptions
Cool Software Blog
Software Engineering
Debug with Notes
2025-06-01
Never try to fix a bug without a good note taking system.
Software Engineering
Rebuild your tools for fun and profit
2025-05-24
Level up faster by rolling your own
Software Engineering
Planning vs. Solving
2025-05-18
It's like 'build vs. buy', but much harder to get right.
Software Engineering
Engineering beyond the sum of your parts
2025-05-11
Complementary approaches to software engineering can be unreasonably effective.
MobX-State-Tree
Should you use MobX-State-Tree with React in 2025?
2025-01-08
React 19 and the React Compiler are ushering in a new era. Will MobX-State-Tree be able to keep up? (The answer is yes).
React Native
Hacking Expo SQLite into React Native MacOS
2024-09-30
A hands-on adventure experimenting with Expo Modules in an out-of-tree React Native platform.
React
A path towards observable values in React
2024-09-07
My current best understanding of the problem statement and possible solution
Open Source
Code Archaeology and Misleading Docs
2024-07-16
Sometimes being a maintainer makes you confidently wrong in a way that's hard to fix
React Native
Add Alternate App Icons to React Native in Xcode
2024-07-14
This should be all the steps you need to set up alternate app icons with Xcode and React Native.
Open Source
Blog post with Codecademy: Start Contributing to Open Source
2024-07-09
Just a celebratory post about my article on Codecademy
React Native
How to test deep links in Android Emulator
2024-04-02
adb -s emulator-[number] shell am start -W -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d "your://link/here"
React Native
How to test deep links in iOS Simulator
2024-03-28
xcrun simctl openurl booted myapp://link-path
React Native
My blog post about WalterPicks on the Expo Blog
2024-03-22
I wrote about our March Madness bracket builder tool for Expo.
TypeScript
TypeScript Generics and the Curse of Knowledge
2024-03-01
Where is the line between gatekeeping and developing preferences with experience?
React Native
Hide a Tab Bar with Expo Router and Nested Stacks
2024-01-01
Here's a way you can hide the Tab Navigator tabs on specific screens in Expo Router, useful for nested routes
React Native
Flexible and Reusable Text in React Native
2023-12-29
A technique to keep React Native typography simple and consistent.
MobX-State-Tree
Faster Model Creation for MobX-State-Tree (Maybe)
2023-11-06
I think we made MobX-State-Tree faster. Help us verify that. Or tell us if we didn't.
MobX-State-Tree
How to write async/await with MobX-State-Tree
2023-10-18
You can, in fact, use async/await with MobX-State-Tree. Here's how.
MobX-State-Tree
Benchmarking MobX-State-Tree Performance
2023-10-08
Introducing a system to benchmark MobX-State-Tree performance and memory usage across environments.
MobX-State-Tree
When should I use type casting in MobX-State-Tree?
2023-09-30
A simple rubric for when the cast function is helpful, along with more details about the underlying type inference system of MobX-State-Tree.
MobX-State-Tree
How Does MobX-State-Tree Infer Model Properties?
2023-07-24
A deep dive into the way MobX-State-Tree infers model properties from primitive values.
MobX-State-Tree
What happens when you create a MobX-State-Tree model?
2023-07-17
A deep dive into the way MobX-State-Tree creates model type instances.
React Native
Testing React Native WebView with React Native Testing Library
2022-09-07
How to test React Native Webview with React Native Testing Library
React Native
Delete Derived Data in Xcode when React Native Build Fails
2021-08-16
I've started working on a React Native project, and ran into a build issue with a quick fix.
LeetCode
Find All Numbers Disappeared in an Array
2021-05-16
Given an array nums of n integers where nums[i] is in the range [1, n], return an array of all the integers in the range [1, n] that do not appear in nums.
LeetCode
Duplicate Zeros
2021-04-18
Given a fixed-length integer array arr, duplicate each occurrence of zero, shifting the remaining elements to the right.
Open Source
How to Read Open Source: Finding Middleman Callbacks
2021-01-20
I wrote a post about reading through open source repositories for the GitLab Unfiltered blog
Ruby
Heuristics for Object Oriented Design with Jason Swett
2020-12-23
I spoke with Jason Swett on the Rails with Jason podcast about my blog post on object-oriented design in Ruby.
Professional Development
Fearlessly Become a Better Software Professional
2020-12-11
It is hard to improve software skills because of discriminatory attitudes in the industry and high stakes. This is my framework for fearlessly and efficiently improving my own skills.
Ruby
Heuristics for Object Oriented Design in Ruby
2020-12-03
A distillation of Sandi Metz's Pratical Object-Oriented Design (POODR), useful for quick refactoring and long term coding improvement.
Git
Introduction to Version Control with Git
2020-11-27
A high level primer and overview of version control and Git - for beginners just getting started.
Podcast
My appearance on the Rails with Jason podcast
2020-10-06
I spoke with Jason Swett on the Rails with Jason podcast about poker turn enforcement and ActionCable
Podcast
My Appearance on Computer Science: Just the Useful Bits
2020-09-02
I spoke with Noah Gibbs of the CS:JUB podcast about computer science education and its applications
Ruby
Build a Rails Engine to Accept Stripe One-time Payments
2020-05-13
I find myself writing the same Stripe functionality frequently. To save time, I wrote a Rails Engine to handle one-time payments.
Web Development
Generate Eleventy Blog Posts with an NPM Script
2020-02-07
Save time creating blog posts with a quick node script
Open Source
The Markdown Shortcode Eleventy Plugin
2019-12-04
Why and how I made an Eleventy plugin that adds a universal shortcode for rendering markdown.
Web Development
My GitHub Templates blog post on CSS Tricks
2019-10-04
Just a celebratory post about my article on CSS Tricks