Fix the papercuts
A 2026 theme: Taking 10 minutes to fix the tiny, but annoying, problems of everyday life.
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Best of 2025
The music, movies, recipes, and technology (not necessarily released this year) that made my 2025 better!
Cicolator 2.0
An all new design featuring barcode scanning, favorites, and prompt-based estimates using on-device Apple Intelligence models! A big update for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe!
Development is Communication
Exactly how much of being a programmer is writing code?
The Ship of Theseus
Generative AI and how the creation of art is more than just the sum of its parts.
Low-maintenance by design
Sometimes removing the preamble and production is the best way to start—and maintain—your creative goals.
Introducing Pickaday
The easiest way for you, your family, friends, fantasy football league, D&D group, neighborhood, or whoever to vote on event dates together!
The three secrets to becoming a great programmer
Whether you're just starting to program or you're looking to further improve your skills these will drastically put you ahead.
Best of 2024
Some of my favorite things from this past year and other things that stuck with me.
Password protect all entries in a Statamic Collection
A simple Collection setup to enable password protection across your Statamic entries.
Introducing Cicolator
My first iOS, iPadOS, and macOS app that makes calorie tracking and meal portioning simple!
Craft CMS entry query scopes with Yii behaviors
Use Yii's behavior model to create reusable scopes for your element queries.
Keep your stack short
Reducing your tech stack's complexity to save your sanity a year later.
Hot reloading content in Craft CMS's Live Preview
Speed up your content authoring and ditch full-page refreshes for HMR-style updates.
A flock and a hard place
How does Mastodon attract a more diverse audience of users?
How I've dealt with RSI and programming full-time
In May 2020 I began experiencing RSI pain. These are some changes I made to alleviate the pain and get back to programming.
Running Gatsby.js Sites with Craft CMS
The advantages and disadvantages of using Gatsby.js and Craft CMS in production. Includes alternative solutions for the more cautious developer.
Best of 2019
Some quick picks of my favorite things from 2019.
The CODE Keyboard
When I was looking for a new keyboard I decided I wanted to get a mechanical one. They're a bit on the expensive side, but the feel, durability and soothing clicky-ness helped me justify it.
Code Paralysis
Sometimes I feel like I'm overthinking things. Because I'm afraid I'm going to do the wrong things. And then I get stuck. I get code paralysis.
Using fewer tools
Intentionally using a smaller number of tools to get things done.
Great UX patterns in games
How EarthBound creates a better gaming experience by removing tedious actions.