Building Your Own Bitcoin Node

Build your own Bitcoin node so you can process your own payments and participate in blockchain consensus.

Written: June 3, 2022

Building Your First GraphQL Server

This article will teach you GraphQL as well as how to build a small JavaScript server.

Written: August 18, 2019

On Loss

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

Written: January 22, 2022

Finding Motivation in Chaos

Change is a constant in life. The only thing that matters is that you keep working on yourself.

Written: November 20, 2020

The Pursuit of Persistence and Grit

Hard things are worth doing. Push through the feeling of wanting to stop.

Written: July 2, 2019

The Pursuit of Personal Fulfillment

Life is what you make it. Your reality is flexible and will give to your efforts.

Written: March 22, 2019

Building a World-Class Oncall Program

With careful preparation, you can build a best-in-class software engineering oncall program with great training, runbooks, and prepared engineers.

Written: March 27, 2023

React Native Web at Twitter

This is a talk my friend and I gave at Shopify of some unique features in React Native Web that are useful for the Twitter web app.

Debounce Versus Throttle

While they might seem the same, debounce and throttle actually have different use cases. Let's learn what they are!

Written: February 14, 2023

Becoming a TypeScript Badass

Have you always wanted to learn how to master TypeScript? In that case, this one is for you.

Written: August 20, 2020

Understanding Closures

Closures can feel like a mystery until you really dig in to understand what's going on!

Written: January 5, 2020