Using ASTs
March 30, 2024 | 5 Minute Read
Few things accelerated my understanding of code, and what I could do with it, faster than Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs). ASTs are data representations of…
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Salesloft's Frontend Architecture: Where We Started
March 16, 2024 | 8 Minute Read
Over the past 6 years, Salesloft has been transitioning from AngularJS to React. Along with that transition, we have focused heavily on developing an…
Caching Auth Tokens with Distributed Refresh
March 9, 2024 | 5 Minute Read
Ever been in this situation? You make an innocuous change to your authentication logic only to realize upon deploy that it invalidated all your users’…
Dynamic Matrices in GitHub Actions: Streamlining Our Jest Runs
February 24, 2024 | 9 Minute Read
We had a problem: our test runs in CI were too slow. This was in our primary frontend application at Salesloft, a codebase nearing one million lines of code.…
Why I'm Bullish on Rspack
February 17, 2024 | 3 Minute Read
If you haven’t heard of it, Rspack is a Rust-based drop-in replacement for Webpack. It hasn’t hit its v1 release yet, but it’s already a favorite tool in my…
Optimizing Jest Runs with Dynamic Roots
February 10, 2024 | 9 Minute Read
At Salesloft, our primary frontend application has nearly 3,000 test suites containing over 20,000 tests. That’s a lot of time spent running tests in CI and…
Migrating to Astro: The End
January 12, 2024 | 8 Minute Read
Howdy again! We’re in the final mile now. We got the individual blog post pages working last time. In this final installment, we’ll add a few more pages,…
Migrating to Astro: The Middle
January 10, 2024 | 10 Minute Read
Welcome back! Last time we walked through generating a new site, getting the blog post index page working, and adding the talks page. This time we’ll look at…
Migrating to Astro: The Beginning
January 5, 2024 | 9 Minute Read
My website hasn’t gotten much attention the past few years. In 2020, I slowly migrated from Gatsby to Next.js. I even had a partially-written blog post about…
Flattening Object Keys with TypeScript Types
April 26, 2022 | 3 Minute Read
A few weeks ago, I was working on a project where I needed to get all the flattened keys from a deeply nested object as a string union. I looked around the…
Why I Use Tailwind
February 3, 2022 | 7 Minute Read
I am admittedly a big fan of Tailwind, but for one primary reason: it makes me more productive. It may do the same for you. It may not. Perhaps you love the…
Building a macOS Locked Status Notifier in Swift
October 6, 2019 | 26 Minute Read
At my job, we’re supposed to keep our computers locked if we ever walk away from them, a good practice wherever you are. But I constantly found myself…
React Hooks: What They Are and Why They're Important
November 5, 2018 | 13 Minute Read
Sophie Alpert and Dan Abramov showcased hooks, React’s newest upcoming feature, at ReactConf this year. At first glance, I thought they seemed strange and…
Simulating Texas Hold'em in Elixir
August 28, 2018 | 10 Minute Read
A few weeks ago, Todd Sharp wrote an article called “Simulating Texas Hold’em in Groovy” where, no surprise, he simulated a Texas Hold’em hand in Groovy. At…
Six Reasons I Chose Gatsby
May 10, 2018 | 5 Minute Read
Spoiler alert: I’m a big fan of Gatsby. I’ve worked with it multiple times and I’m continually impressed with its power and flexibility. For those who aren’t…
301 Redirects with Next.js
May 9, 2017 | 3 Minute Read
Last week, 3blades - the company I work for - launched our new website using Next.js/Now. In the process, we moved our company blog from our main website to…