Here I write posts with learnings from real projects, less theory, more “here’s what actually worked.” I like to write about concepts that we take for granted in the software industry and make sure there is a higher-level understanding rather than just step-by-step implementations.

Posts

• Hi, I'm Claude... 2025-12-19

  7 Languages, 1 Algorithm, 0 Human Code

• De-logging 2024-06-21

  Print log debugging can have tools too

• Structured intelligence 2023-05-26

  Proposing a term for the New Paradigm in Software Architecture

• Adding OpenAPI to an Express app 2020-09-27

  Documenting your Node.js express API with OpenAPI/Swagger

• Service Registry Pattern 2020-06-28

  An easier way to connect services

• Documenting RESTful APIs 2020-06-22

  An introduction to OpenAPI and Swagger

• Docker 2020-05-17

  The Why

• Distributed Request Tracing 2020-04-18

  Debugging across services

• Gettings started with Feature Flags and Progressive Delivery 2020-01-10

  An introduction with examples using Unleash

• Moving from Medium 2019-06-03

  Does it make sense?

• A single binary SPA using Go 2019-02-24

  Using statik and echo with to serve up a single binary React app

• Node.js with TypeScript 2019-01-02

  Setting up a Node.js app with TypeScript, Nodemon, and Mocha/Chai tests

• Swarm testing with Locust.io for the first time 2018-10-01

  A beginners guide

• Building and distributing a cross platform desktop UI in Scala 2018-09-23

  Is ScalaFX the way to go?

• Building a sentiment aware Polymer input control 2017-10-01

  A tale of a UI experiment and using CoreNLP in Scala

• Building a Desktop UI in Go 2017-09-21

  Is it a good idea?

• Making better technology decisions 2017-06-15

  Facing the interminable news feed

• Sbt heiroglyphs and multi-projects explained 2016-06-24

  A starter guide to understanding what an sbt file is actually saying

• A Software Developer's Experience Building a Robot 2013-08-25

  Part 1: Legs

• Running Node.js Alongside IIS on Windows 2013-02-15

  Using Reverse Proxy for Flexibility

• Running Node.js Alongside Apache 2013-02-10

  Using Reverse Proxy

• Controlling an LED on an Arduino over HTTP 2013-02-05

  JavaScript Meets Hardware

• Node.js Web Sockets and iOS 2012-12-02

  A Web/Node.JS/iOS tutorial

• Using UIRefreshControl 2012-11-02

• Searching through a UITableView 2012-11-02

  An Objective-C tutorial

• Device detection in iOS 2012-09-28

• Hidden menu Part 2: Following the finger 2012-09-24

• Creating a hidden menu in iOS 2012-09-24

• How to create a custom look for your UITableView 2012-09-10

• Connecting to a php service from iOS 2012-08-26

• Optimise your Xcode productivity with shortcuts 2012-08-19

• Some useful libraries for iOS development 2012-08-19

• Creating a custom UIPickerView 2012-08-06

• Universal gravitation in C++ 2012-07-15

• Beginning iOS development 2012-07-12