Engineering
Template Literal Types: Expressive, Type-Safe APIs
Use TypeScript template literal types to encode event names, route patterns and permission sets in the type system — no runtime checks, no string drift.
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DevOps
Docker Development Workflows That Actually Work
Stop fighting Docker in local dev: multi-stage builds, bind mounts, Compose overrides, and the patterns that make containers feel native.
·3 min read
Career
Internal Developer Platforms Teams Actually Use
Design internal developer platforms that speed delivery: self-service infrastructure, golden paths, platform APIs, DX metrics and adoption that earns trust.
·4 min read
Productivity
Automating Toil: Cutting Repetitive Engineering Work
Apply SRE toil-reduction principles to daily work: spot repetitive manual tasks, measure their real cost, automate them, and count that as output.
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Productivity
Developer Tooling That Compounds Over a Career
The tools, shell setup, editor configuration and workflow automations that compound over a career — and how to build a setup that gets out of your way.
·3 min read
Productivity
Automating Dev Environments with Dev Containers and Nix
End works-on-my-machine by pairing Dev Containers for IDE integration with Nix for reproducible dependencies — versioned, portable, identical setups.
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Engineering
Technical Debt: Making the Business Case for Refactoring
A practical framework for measuring technical debt in terms stakeholders accept: code metrics, developer velocity data and incident correlations.
·5 min read
Tutorials
Building a CLI Tool from Scratch with Node.js
Build a production-quality Node.js CLI: argument parsing, interactive prompts, progress indicators, error handling and npm distribution, done properly.
·5 min read
Productivity
Deep Work: Structuring Your Day for Maximum Focus
Apply deep work to software development with concrete scheduling, environment design, interruption management and energy-aware task allocation.
·4 min read
Productivity
Automating Repetitive Development Tasks with Custom Scripts
Build automation scripts that remove daily friction: project scaffolding, database seeding, log analysis and deployment checks with Node.js and shell.
·5 min read
Tutorials
Building a CLI Tool with Node.js from Scratch
Step-by-step guide to a professional Node.js CLI: argument parsing, interactive prompts, colored output, progress, config files and npm publishing.
·5 min read
DevOps
Platform Engineering: Developer Platforms That Scale
Design internal developer platforms that abstract infrastructure, offer self-service, cut cognitive load on application teams and speed up delivery.
·4 min read