Why am I writing a JavaScript toolchain in Zig?

Few things keep me up at night more than the untapped potential in current developer tooling. The research exists; all that's needed is focused effort to improve the tools we rely on every day.

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Designing (and Evolving) a New Web Performance Score

In my day-to-day work, there’s a lot of competitor analysis. Either to present to the client themselves, to see where they sit among their contemporaries, or me to use in my pitching process—competition is a great motivator!

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What We Learned Migrating From Webpack to Vite

The Neon Console is a Single Page Application (SPA), or rather, a collection of SPAs. Static assets like JavaScript and CSS are served through CloudFront, while the HTML is dynamically rendered by our Go backend.

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Vitest vs. Jest

Effective testing frameworks are essential in building reliable JavaScript applications, helping you minimize bugs and catch them early to keep your customers happy. Choosing the right testing framework saves hours of configuration hassles and improves developer experience.

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Why TanStack Start is Ditching Adapters

Building a new front-end Javascript framework is a daunting task, as I’ve been learning with building TanStack Start, my new TanStack-powered full stack framework. There’s so many moving pieces:

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React Scan

React Scan automatically detects and highlights components that cause performance issues in your React app. Drop it in anywhere – script tag, npm, you name it!

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The Tragedy of Running an Old Node Project

It’s been a long while since I wrote anything on this site. The framework I used was Gatsby which in 2020 was one of the hot ways of getting a good looking blog up and running quickly. With over 41 dependencies, and god knows how many more sub-dependencies, this thing was a beast.

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