In 2016, the year of JavaScript fatigue, there’s still a lot to be learned by trying out some of the technology being peddled on Hacker News.

Redux is a simplistic Flux architecture that encourages you to carefully think about how you structure the domains within your application, forces the concept…

I’ve been cycling to work now for about 10 months, although I started writing this post after 2 months. The experience, by and large, has been overwhelmingly pleasant. I have a great route, the weather has been unusually kind, and I’ve got fitter by a ridiculous magnitude without really trying.

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HLZ — Gaia

I had a great Friday evening this week, and it made me truly realise how lucky I am to be part of such a beautiful scene, as strange as it seems to outsiders look upon it.

I’ve recently made the choice to give alcohol a rest, at…

This is a short chronicle of an incredibly interesting period I enjoyed in August this year, spent debugging and scaling a fast-growing NodeJS application that had just been rolled out to a larger userbase. It tested my knowledge on Node’s processing model, how to work under a bombardment of automated…

Just enjoyed tweaking bike cables and gearsets for half an hour. Takes me back to the joys of playing with Lego as a kid and made me realise that the default mindset of a lot of people these days is to always replace, never repair, and never get your hands…

A few years ago via Hacker News (where else?), I heard about Soylent, the powdered food eerily named after the film. …

I’ve been meaning to use Gulp for a while now — I’ve normally used Grunt for builds.

I decided to use Gulp to take care of builds for my single page personal website. So far I’ve been pleased with how much easier and expressive it is to set up builds…