Essays

What a Game Boy ROM hack taught me about AI, assembly, and harness engineering

The dual-edged sword of AI in the new age

Does everything come down to values and attitude?

Fighting the default state of chaos, darkness, and death

A lot of lessons in company and team-building that have paid off in ways that aren't just financial

A comparison of Vite, Rolldown, Next.js with Webpack,and Turbopack

Why I'm choosing TanStack over Next.js

Why good APIs are often about what they don't do

The simple beauty in the mundane, and why it should be sought.

Some jobs, but not all jobs, are worth doing yourself

How I became obsessed with programming from a video game in my teens

How work gets better in every way by taking ownership.

Really hard circumstances have led me to really beautiful lessons, usually through music.

The lay of the land for just about everything out there.

Edited images of the Savior

A single dead simple rule is maybe all you actually need to live by

If you simplified the Gospel down to 1 guiding principle, what would it be?

From not knowing anything to buying a house

Powerful, easy to remember ideas boiled down to 2 words.

Doing more with less. And why writing is the key.

Short quips that are applicable across a variety of decisions for better direction in work/life.

Or are they hiding in plain sight

How a story that never mentions Christ tells His story

And I am the observer

Why being constant can help us "stand forever"

Why learning to code has been one of the best choices I've ever made.

Why I love technology, but also sort of hate it.

How docs are like roads, and how to write docs that are usable for new and advanced users.

Lessons learned over 7 years at BYU

Parallels between life and open source

Tools to get an idea from design to deployment

Export to React, after designing in Sketch, and tweaking keyframes in Haiku.

Shave off hours of work with a simple to use React component built for images. Optimizing images hardly sounds like an ideal afternoon of…