A Brief Tour of Tools

I’ve been working professionally for the better part of a decade on web apps and, in that time, I’ve had to learn how to use a lot of different systems and tools. During that education, I found that the official documentation typically proved to be the most helpful.

In this article I go over three things that, in my mind, would make JavaScript better. None are new ideas. This post is an expansion of a tweet I had when I saw someone asking about improvements for JS. (though probably are impossible for various reasons). I’m going to be primarily speaking about browsers and the web, though much of this might...

“Where should this information live?” is a common question I encounter daily as a software engineer. I (alone or in consultation with others) will make a decision and that information needs to persist…somewhere. The goal of course is to prevent some future engineer (often myself) from encountering some code and asking “why?” or, even worse,...