My (somewhat) complete salary history as a software engineer

It’s 2018 and somehow women are still getting paid less than men, even in supposedly progressive industries like software.[1] Whether that be from companies offering women less than men for the same position, women being less…

Why I’ve stopped exporting defaults from my JavaScript modules

You can export both named and default symbols from JavaScript modules, and now I’m choosing named exports exclusively.

Computer science in JavaScript 2019: Linked list

How to implement a singly linked list in JavaScript using classes, symbol properties, and generators.

Outputting Markdown from Jekyll using hooks

One of the things I most enjoy about Jekyll[1] is writing my blog posts in Markdown. I love not worrying about HTML and just letting Jekyll generate it for me when a post is published. Using Liquid tags directly in Markdown is also helpful, as I can…

Securing persistent environment variables using ZEIT Now

I’m a big fan of ZEIT Now[¹] as an application hosting provider. The way the service abstracts all of the cloud computing details and allows teams to focus on building and deploying web applications is fantastic. That said, I had a…

Scheduling Jekyll posts with Netlify and GitHub Actions

Last year, I wrote about how to schedule Jekyll posts using Netlify and AWS Lambda[¹]. I used that approach from the moment I wrote that blog post up until today. What changed? In the past year, GitHub has introduced GitHub…