Databases are some of the most complex pieces of software conceived since the advent of the computing age over half a century ago. [1] Nearly every piece of technology ends up touching the database in some way shape or form. … Read more
A year long indie hacking journey Hi, I’m James (in some circles better known as Mackey). In my career, I am a software engineer that likes working in startups. I regularly write about the things that I am working on, … Read more
Contents Intro For the past half a year, I’ve been working on building an experimental observability project — among many other tasks and projects — for infrastructure at my current company. After trying out a few different tech stacks, I’ve … Read more
Table of contents The Benefits of HTML and CSS But, I Can’t Upload HTML to Indeed Building It The Data The Markup The Design Development Experience Like many before me, I’ve built and rebuilt my resume many times over the … Read more
Have you ever played the “Spot the Difference” game, where you try to find slight differences between two similar images? I play it whenever I review code in a nontrivial pull request that changes a website’s HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. … Read more
October 24, 2024 Recently I read about a new Rust web framework called rwf. I was especially curious about its approach to handling database migrations, as many frameworks released in recent years tend to either overlook this or provide a … Read more
Motivation For years, web frameworks such as React and Vue have popularized the mental model of component based development. This approach allows us to break down complex front-end applications into components for better composition and maintenance. Hence, when discussing front-end … Read more
People talk about htmx as though it’s saving the web from single-page apps. React has mired developers in complexity (so the story goes) and htmx is offering a desperately-needed lifeline. htmx creator Carson Gross wryly explains the dynamic like this … Read more
This post is not about research or developing software for robots. Instead it is some tips on how to go about building robots for mass deployment and how to leverage those deployed robots for improving your product. The four tips … Read more
Miguel Raz (Ferrous Systems) I built a Savitzky-Golay filter (fancy name for a dot product with some known constants on a rolling window) and tried to optimize the crap out of it. It’s fast, it was fun, and I want … Read more