Writing

17.05.2019 Question: What else do you get excited about?
10.05.2019 The developer-driven economic stack
26.04.2019 Mura → Muri → Muda
19.04.2019 I accidentally a product manager
29.03.2019 What do you do, exactly?
22.03.2019 Whither the front-end technical co-founder?
15.03.2019 Pragmatic prioritisation
08.03.2019 Is it worth paying down that tech debt?
22.02.2019 Cost of delay and the elusive nature of value
15.02.2019 Don't use story points for prioritisation
08.02.2019 Redesign along strata, not down boreholes
30.01.2019 Jevons paradox of client resource consumption
29.01.2019 Pure and applied expertise
28.01.2019 Individual expertise and team balance
24.01.2019 Celebrating impact
23.01.2019 Progression frameworks for smaller companies
22.01.2019 How to read a progression framework
21.01.2019 Global CFP Diversity Day
17.01.2019 Code crit?
16.01.2019 Truth to materials
15.01.2019 Fancy a game of Spot the Fallacy?
14.01.2019 Tsundoku and professional development
10.01.2019 Recognising and rewarding glue work
09.01.2019 How much time should I spend writing code?
20.12.2018 Just-in-time collaboration trumps documentation
19.12.2018 Practices for communicating and upholding code standards
18.12.2018 Setting standards from scratch
17.12.2018 Determining and communicating development standards
13.12.2018 Work according to your scope of influence
12.12.2018 Balancing feature development with stewardship
11.12.2018 Coffee club or committee meeting?
10.12.2018 Do you have a 'Front-End Chapter'?
06.12.2018 The important part of the Spotify Model
05.12.2018 Are browser support policies dead?
04.12.2018 Support browser support by supporting your browser
29.11.2018 Grabbing the lead
28.11.2018 Why I no longer believe in the web
27.11.2018 Dealing with the arriviste problem
26.11.2018 Behold! An arriviste appears
21.11.2018 Stop it with the handoffs
20.11.2018 My preciousss code
19.11.2018 Which mode are you in?
15.11.2018 My employer's principles aren't my values
14.11.2018 Principle background checks
13.11.2018 Web software design principles: The Principle of Least Power
12.11.2018 Dialogue or monologue?
08.11.2018 Design principles before fancy patterns
07.11.2018 Collective capabilities over individual expertise
06.11.2018 Netflix's low-hanging fruit
01.11.2018 Take the foot off the pedal to go faster
31.10.2018 Ninja rockstar bottlenecks
30.10.2018 Create your own dysfunctional single-page app in five easy steps
29.10.2018 Conway's Law goes deeper than your org chart
25.10.2018 Conway's Law is no joke
24.10.2018 Side project gardening
23.10.2018 The side project shuffle
18.10.2018 Front end devs are now big borrowers
17.10.2018 The build, borrow or buy fractal
16.10.2018 What should a full-stack developer focus on?
15.10.2018 Frustration-driven development
11.10.2018 Webworker
10.10.2018 A maturity model for front end development?
09.10.2018 Are little rewrites better than refactoring?
08.10.2018 Why discovery testing helps component-based UI development
04.10.2018 Are you Detroit- or London-school?
03.10.2018 Pyramids, ice cream cones, crumbs, pancakes and trophies
01.10.2018 TDD: ugh, right?
27.09.2018 Drifting into a test-averse culture
26.09.2018 Do you need a second brain?
25.09.2018 T-shaped knowledge is hokum
24.09.2018 Slicing and dicing the curate's egg
20.09.2018 Front-end channel on Rands Slack
19.09.2018 My own brush with the 'Spotify Model'
18.09.2018 Peter is out of the squad on principle
17.09.2018 Lean delegation
13.09.2018 Robotic front-end web jockeys
12.09.2018 You wouldn't let a marketing contractor fly an airliner
11.09.2018 Awkward stacks
10.09.2018 Managing long-term, part-time migrations
06.09.2018 A chance to be vulnerable
05.09.2018 A question for front-end engineering leaders
04.09.2018 Peering in through the window
29.08.2018 How ethnography can help you understand code
29.08.2018 Hot takes! Any hot takes?
28.08.2018 A misty-eyed journey into the boring old days
27.08.2018 PWA super starters
23.08.2018 Marvin Minsky's opinions about CSS-in-JS
22.08.2018 Get some Webhint in your toolchain
21.08.2018 What's the web really good at?
20.08.2018 MVPs are not (always) Mini Versions of the Product
16.08.2018 The prototype gamut
15.08.2018 Walking skeletons and tracer bullets
14.08.2018 The runaway proof of concept
13.08.2018 Prototypes, proofs of concept, walking skeletons and MVPs, oh my!
09.08.2018 Chesterton's fence is not yours to remove
08.08.2018 Failing safely
07.08.2018 Sometimes, you *are* Google (maybe)
01.08.2018 Other words for 'rewrite'
31.07.2018 When refactoring isn't
30.07.2018 How GitHub switched from jQuery to, well, nothing
25.07.2018 Tog's Law of Commuting and you
24.07.2018 Tesler's Law
23.07.2018 Fundamentals schmundamentals
20.07.2018 20,000 enemies
18.07.2018 Mindful code reviews
16.07.2018 E pluribus unum
12.07.2018 Video: How to Survive the Single Page App-ocalypse
10.07.2018 Embrace the experiment
09.07.2018 Product and agency work isn't so different
05.07.2018 Who has your back?
04.07.2018 Start with yourself
02.07.2018 Dealing with negative product feedback
28.06.2018 Small and big discomforts
27.06.2018 Rational technology choice doesn't exist
26.06.2018 Did we back the wrong horse?
25.06.2018 Movements and complications
21.06.2018 Reluctant scrum mastery
20.06.2018 A product manager stepped on my toe
19.06.2018 Over to you. Got a question about front end leadership?
18.06.2018 Are static sites the new static site?
15.06.2018 Wilful educated ignorance
14.06.2018 Hey, where's all the front-end stuff?
13.06.2018 How to create a lead time ladder
12.06.2018 Spot waste with value stream mapping
11.06.2018 Trimming your 無駄
08.06.2018 1000 ways of testing
07.06.2018 Constructive snark?
06.06.2018 Clean me
05.06.2018 What 'make the business case' really means
31.05.2018 Software NIMBYs
30.05.2018 Developer happiness considered harmful (sometimes)
29.05.2018 How to win every argument
25.05.2018 Software archaeology and anthropology
24.05.2018 Hidden foundations
23.05.2018 Hollow artifacts
22.05.2018 UI foundations on a shoestring
21.05.2018 Platform and Foundation
18.05.2018 Ceci n'est pas un job
17.05.2018 Full stack developer? Software engineer? Rockstar Ninja Hacker?
16.05.2018 Full Yack Shaver
15.05.2018 Full-stack jacket
14.05.2018 How many full-stack developers does it take to change a light bulb?
07.05.2018 You really do have to get out of the building
30.04.2018 The trust multiplier
23.04.2018 Your role as an amigo
16.04.2018 The accidental lead
09.04.2018 Starting with why...
02.04.2018 Positioning for front-end developers
26.03.2018 Everybody wants to be (internet) famous
26.01.2018 How to prevent big front-end rewrites with lean technology choices
22.06.2017 Technical Debt Often Isn't
10.02.2017 A Front-End Responsibilities Laundry List
24.11.2016 Shoot Down Front-End Fatigue With Tracer Bullets
20.09.2016 Why and How to Test Your Pattern Library – Part 2: Testing a Pattern Lab Project
12.09.2016 Why and How to Test Your Pattern Library – Part 1: Testing Strategy
15.08.2016 31 Ways to Spend Less Time on Manual Cross–Browser Testing
25.07.2016 Are you writing legacy CSS code?
12.08.2015 Forcing yourself to write a book in 11 days via reckless public commitment
01.08.2015 Test your design system not your website
03.02.2012 Futuristic progressive enhancement talk
11.01.2012 Your mobile mileage may vary
08.09.2011 Edinburgh International Book Festival mobile site
10.05.2011 Culture Hack Scotland 2011
26.04.2011 Testing Backbone applications with Jasmine and Sinon – Part 3: Routers and Views
25.03.2011 Testing Backbone applications with Jasmine and Sinon – Part 2: Models and Collections
03.03.2011 Testing Backbone applications with Jasmine and Sinon – Part 1: Introduction
14.02.2011 Jasmine matchers for Sinon.JS
03.02.2011 Why web professionals should avoid professionalism