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“Hobby projects are very important for me. They give me the freedom to do what I want, how I want it and also they help… Read More »How to return to the flow faster

“A year ago, I started working full-time at Bloomberg. That’s when I imagined writing this post. I imagined myself to be full of ideas that… Read More »Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer

“Listen Notes is a podcast search engine and database. The technology behind Listen Notes is actually very very boring. No AI, no deep learning, no… Read More »The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company

“On the benefits of performant software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability. I love fast software. That is, software speedy both… Read More »Fast Software, the Best Software

“Anyone who uses the internet knows the hassles of using a user name and password to access their own information, whether it’s their banking, online… Read More »Preparing your enterprise to eliminate passwords

“Manoush Zomorodi explores the surprising environmental impact of the internet in this episode of IRL. Because while it’s easy to think of the internet as… Read More »The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

“Last month, I gave a 30-minute talk at the Awwwards? conference in San Francisco. I used to give talks fairly often, mostly covering CSS and… Read More »What I Learned Co-founding Dribbble

“There is another obscure way of tracking users without using cookies or even Javascript. It has already been used by numerous websites but few people… Read More »Cookieless cookies

“We’ve been restoring an Apollo Guidance Computer1. Now that we have the world’s only working AGC, I decided to write some code for it. Trying… Read More »Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer

“Just over six months into a job doing React development, I’ve been trying to figure out why it has taken me so long to feel… Read More »Why Did I Have Difficulty Learning React?