It’s hard for me to overstate how much my coding has improved since embracing automated testing. And yet, I used to think of it as a waste of time! This post is for my former self, demonstrating why I...

I once wrote about how I've stopped nit-picking in code reviews, which improved the signal-to-noise ratio and helped everyone get along better. I’m back with a third reason to ditch the practice: nit...

Like many software developers, I’ve been considering the future of my profession in the face of AI. AI can write code. Our job is to write code. It seems natural that we’d be replaced by AI, no? But...

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I’ve been a rhythm game fiend since my introduction to Dance Dance Revolution in the early 2000s. I spent years obsessed with DDR, took a detour into Beatmania, then played Guitar Hero / Rock Band non...

For better or worse, my life has become infested by Jest mocks. I come from the land of dependency injection (I even gave a talk once!), but whenever I talk about dependency injection to JavaScript d...

This is a writeup of a talk I gave at Minnebar 20. Originally, I threw in some Matrix references to make the talk more fun & engaging. Those jokes work better in person, so I’ve mostly omitted the Ma...

It seems like every time you login to a website nowadays, it asks you to create a passkey. If you’re like me, you initially assumed this was some sort of scam.