Recently I’ve gazed long enough into the Jira abyss that the Jira abyss has also gazed into me. Because of this, I am able to plumb the depths of the admin configuration to produce for you a guide on adding new fields, customizing issues, and writing automation. This is the…

Recently I’ve been working a lot in Jira. Like, a lot a lot. I’ve been referred to as the Jira Wizard at work over it (a dubious distinction) and I realized that everything I’ve learned in configuring our process might help other people who are starting out with the product. …

Do not walk — run away — from Better Mortgage. Full disclosure: This is not a technical article. This is a story of Better Mortgage’s utter, breathtaking incompetence and underhanded and abusive business practices. Do not use Better Mortgage for your home purchase. I’ve been a little busy so I haven’t gotten to writing another technical article recently, because my…

Today I’m going to explore a library called Zapatos which styles itself as “zero-abstraction Postgres for Typescript”. Most people have utilized ORMs and found them a bit heavy-handed or struggled to work with conventions of usage. …

Something that people in the tech industry tend to struggle with early in their careers is self-organization. Figuring out what the best process is for you and the best way to organize your digital life can be an essential skill to develop early and iterate on throughout your career. Meanwhile…

A quick dive into several use cases for TypeScript 5’s decorators — I, like many of you, opened VS code recently to some perplexing error messages such as “Expression produces a union type that is too complex to represent.ts(2590).” A few quick Googles had me arrive predictably at the recent release of TypeScript 5 and some indications that my locally installed version…

Writing a node class library is more confusing than it needs to be. Here’s a guide — I’m mad at node libraries, and I’m just not going to take it anymore! I’ve committed a lot of attention to Node.js and TypeScript over the last couple of years; I even built a startup with React and Express on it. In a lot of other languages creating a library…

Let’s play with complicated scenarios to learn to use them effectively — ChatGPT has landed and left a big first impression among engineers — opinions range from scoffing at the name to chatting with it about the universe's origins. No matter which side of the aisle you’re on, most realize it will change a lot about the industry. I think that, like…

A guide to reducing complexity, increasing resilience, and lowering the maintenance burden of your system — This is an article in which we will explore building an application following the guidelines of the 12-Factor App (TFA). Utilizing these best practices can make your life much easier by reducing complexity, increasing resilience, and lowering the maintenance burden of your system. …