This is the final post in a series of my journey to launch a side project in 2020. You can find the previous posts here and here. After working to launch MergeCaravan, I finally felt like the product was ready to be released. …

This is the second post about my journey launching a side project in 2020. The first post can be found here and the last post here. Last year, I set a goal for myself: Build, launch, and close a paying customer for a product that I built entirely on my…

This is the first of a few posts about my journey launching a side project in 2020. At the beginning of 2020, I set out a goal for myself: Build, launch, and get a paying customer for a product that I built entirely on my own. As much as 2020…

How Wrapping Your Dependencies Will Save You From Future Suffering A few months back, I was talking with one of the other developers on our team and somehow we got onto the topic of what I thought my biggest learning in the past couple years was at our company. …

Hand-holding Honeymoon The first time I used Netlify to deploy a single page app, I was pleasantly surprised. Before then, I’d usually used Heroku to deploy applications, which meant serving my index.html file from Heroku, and configuring my Heroku build process to upload my compiled assets to a CDN. While not too…

Throughout my time as a software developer, I’ve noticed a pattern with the language and framework ecosystems that I tend to enjoy working with most; they generally operate as “blessed” ecosystems. What is Blessed? When I say “blessed”, I’m referring to two properties that these ecosystems possess: The components are explicitly designed to…

Before There Were Trees When I first started using git professionally, one habit I had was to frequently stash code. I’d be working on a particular feature and I’d see a Hipchat alert (yes, this was before Slack) about an error being thrown in production. I’d take a look at the stacktrace in Sentry…