Newsletter Archive

Mar 2, 2025

Attacking complexity at its core—one line of code at a time

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Feb 16, 2025

Abstractions on top of abstractions on top of abstractions on top of...

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Feb 2, 2025

Why are we so bad at estimating and what can we do about it?

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Jan 19, 2025

Do frontend developers have a lower career ceiling than backend developers?

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Jan 5, 2025

And my top book recommendations for 2025.

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Dec 8, 2024

Everything is a trade-off and how to keep track of your architectural decisions.

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Nov 24, 2024

If you liked it, then you shoulda put a test on it.

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Nov 10, 2024

Software complexity is an impossible enemy and why we must fight it anyway.

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Oct 27, 2024

How to care about anything without caring about everything.

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Oct 13, 2024

How to write code that is as easy to understand as a well-designed video game.

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Sep 29, 2024

Learning to code with AI without feeling terrible about it.

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Sep 15, 2024

The secret to building great software is writing really, really terrible code.

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Sep 1, 2024

Decoupling, orthogonality, and the principle of least knowledge in JavaScript.

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Aug 18, 2024

What the DRY Principle is really about, and how to get all of its benefits with none of its drawbacks.

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Aug 4, 2024

Stepping outside of your comfort zone, keeping your depth of knowledge, and other ways to level up your career.

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Jul 21, 2024

Is all coupling 'bad', or is there a 'good' kind of coupling? Also, why is it calling me on a Sunday morning?

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Jul 7, 2024

A full preview of Fundamentals of Frontend Architecture, an exclusive free giveaway, and the return of the bookshelf.

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Jun 23, 2024

A winning strategy for overcoming the fear of staring at a blank canvas.

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Jun 9, 2024

Solving hard problems, DOM performance, keeping up with the JS ecosystem, and much more.

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May 26, 2024

Should frontend developers know data structures and algorithms?

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May 12, 2024

How to keep your codebase in good shape by fixing small issues as they come up.

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Apr 28, 2024

Why breaking down large tasks is so important, and how to actually do it.

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Apr 14, 2024

Making architectural decisions, choosing trade-offs, and other impossible tasks.

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Mar 31, 2024

Why rewrites fail (and what to do instead)

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Mar 17, 2024

AI, Devin, and the future of frontend development.

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Mar 3, 2024

How to draw frontend architecture diagrams that actually make sense.

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Feb 18, 2024

What woodworkers and Jeff Bezos can teach us about software design.

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Feb 4, 2024

How to stop ourselves from trying to predict the future.

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Jan 21, 2024

How to balance boring technology and the need for innovation.

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Jan 7, 2024

How to find the right balance between too much and too little architecture.

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Dec 24, 2023

Looking forward to a 2024 full of exciting new projects, and a look back at the best of 2023.

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Dec 10, 2023

Why tech debt isn't always a bad thing, a short but powerful book on software design, using cookies in Next.js, and one of my favorite technical talks of all time.

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Nov 26, 2023

Preparatory refactoring, empirical software design, the rules of programming, and what’s happening in the world of local-first development.

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Nov 12, 2023

The life-changing magic of organizing your codebase, hybrid rendering architectures, React server components, and how to draw beautiful diagrams.

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Oct 22, 2023

Cognitive load, cohesion, simplicity, micro-frontends, naming things, and how selfishness is the key to good component design.

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Oct 8, 2023

Architecture, micro frontends, the design system ecosystem, and my favorite full-stack in a box type of book.

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Sep 24, 2023

Refactoring, islands architecture, component libraries, and a book about functional programming that doesn't require a Ph.D. in math.

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Sep 10, 2023

The cost of JavaScript, my top tips for measuring and optimizing performance, and how wasps can help us ship faster websites.

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Aug 27, 2023

Prototyping, reactivity, the golden era of CSS, and giving technical books a second chance.

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Aug 13, 2023

Technical depth, technical breadth, the fundamentals of software architecture, and a model for drawing diagrams that actually make sense.

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Jul 30, 2023

Abstractions, design patterns, DRY, WET, and boring architecture.

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Jul 16, 2023

Complexity, principles for scaling frontend applications, the risks of micro frontends, and more.

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