How to Keep Your Head in the Clouds Without Floating Away

While reading the Frontend at Scale newslettter, I stumbled across Joel Spolsky’s legendary essay, Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You, and it did highlight that my pragmatic perspective on software development is still valid. Even though it’s over two decades old, the message remains crucial: too much abstraction can leave you gasping for real, measurable impact. […]

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Prevent the Collapse of Software Development Civilization

This talk was done 2 years ago, at a gaming conference. The title “Preventing the Collapse of Civilization” is an accurate representation of the content, it’s not click-baity.. and it’s talking about the collapse of our digital, shipping software world, and the drop in productivity and purpose that’s being felt throughout the industry because of

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Google Page Speed Insights – Take your score to the next level

If you’re wondering about improving your Google Page Speed rating, great! This is a good first step, but it’s not the only one you should take.= How to improve Google Page Speed This should be self-explanatory, as the results are accompanied by recommendations on what to do to fix them. But what if a lot

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