Nobody can wall that off behind a paywall. Nobody can put a popup over your stuff and say “Don’t look at the content right now. It’s so much better if you login!”. Nobody can build their brand off of your work. …

A few weeks ago I set out to write a blog post about technical debt and the complexities of getting rid of it, or some of it, when you work for a company. I wanted to see what others had written about it and of course I landed on Martin…

My blog is built with Hugo. Every blog I ever had was built with a static site generator or a file based CMS. I love static site generators, they make content management simple, they are secure and it’s fun to build websites with them. For me, they have one problem…

Salary negotiations at the start of a job always feel somewhat like a war to me. Each party is trying to get on higher ground to get the tactical advantage over the other. Typically one of those parties comes to that fight ill-prepared. Generally that’s the prospective employee. It’s weird…

Just Fucking Ship by the most excellent Amy Hoy is a great book. It’s about how to bootstrap and ship any (side-)project. The most valuable part of the book for me personally was how she describes outlining a blog post. I always thought outlining a post was to come up…

Whenever I use git rebase -i to squash commits, Git opens the squasher (that’s how I just named the text view for the interactive rebase) in VIM. My knowledge of vimming is not very great so I used to just type i and then inch around with the arrow keys…

Jan and I had the distinct honor to guest on the JS Party podcast last week to talk about Nested Loops. First of all it was a really great experience to be a guest on there. The Changelog family of podcasts are very professionally run and it was a great pleasure to be on. @noopkat, @jerodsanto and @adamstac made us feel very welcome and comfortable. We talked about how Nested Loops was founded and immediately had band problems. Why I am rapping with a Jamaican accent. What @bonotes role is. How the tech works and evolved on the music, video and effects sides. I think it came out great and you should definitely give it a listen.

We are using some internal libraries at work that are not very well documented. As a result it is really difficult and time-intensive to onboard onto the project. …

Adding accessibility features to a legacy web app was easier than I thought — Recently we added some accessibility features to a web application with a pretty old code base. …