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Jun 02 2026
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AI-Assisted Development Without Giving Up Judgement
May 24 2026
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What Good Technical Leadership Looks Like Day to Day
Apr 22 2026
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Keeping Side Projects Small Enough to Finish
Mar 04 2026
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How I Decide What to Automate
Feb 17 2026
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Accessibility Checks I Build Into Every Project
Jan 10 2026
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Setting Engineering Goals That Survive January
Dec 28 2025
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What I Learned From a Year of Deliberate Practice
Nov 23 2025
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The Value of Small, Reversible Changes
Oct 09 2025
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When a Design System Needs Governance
Sept 27 2025
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Choosing Boring Technology on Purpose
Aug 09 2025
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What Makes Developer Documentation Useful
Jul 27 2025
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Is It Time to Learn Another Framework?
Jun 02 2025
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Why Every Dev Should Read One Book a Month
May 07 2025
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Balancing Dev Life With Creative Projects
Apr 17 2025
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A Cricket Season Preview—With a Front-End Twist
Mar 15 2025
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The Joy of Writing Code That Teaches
Feb 21 2025
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Why I Still Don't Use Tailwind in 2025
Jan 27 2025
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Getting Back Into the Groove After the Holidays
Dec 18 2024
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What My Career Taught Me (So Far)
Nov 05 2024
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Why You Should Still Learn Semantic HTML
Oct 16 2024
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Dealing With Tech Stack Regret
Sept 26 2024
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The Quiet Satisfaction of Good Documentation
Aug 07 2024
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How to Onboard a New Dev Without Overwhelming Them
Jul 22 2024
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What I Learned Building a Space-Themed Side Project
Jun 16 2024
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Golf and Code: Mental Reset After a Buggy Day
May 21 2024
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The Power of Technical Storytelling
Apr 18 2024
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How to Actually Use Linting for Team Success
Mar 06 2024
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Building a Portfolio That Reflects Your Values
Feb 17 2024
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Why CSS is Still the Best Tool for Layout
Jan 26 2024
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How to Start a Project With Good Defaults
Dec 18 2023
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Looking Ahead: What I’m Focusing On in 2024
Nov 09 2023
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What Makes a Front-End Project Fun
Oct 19 2023
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My Favourite Dev Tool of 2023 (And Why)
Sept 20 2023
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Leadership Without Ego
Aug 14 2023
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When and Why I Still Reach for Vanilla JS
Jul 18 2023
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The Myth of the 10x Developer
Jun 14 2023
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Design Tokens vs Utility Classes: My Take
May 11 2023
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What Cricket Selection Meetings Taught Me About Hiring
Apr 24 2023
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The Developer/Designer Relationship Done Right
Mar 19 2023
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How to Stay Technical as You Climb the Ladder
Feb 17 2023
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Why Specsavers Was a Fascinating First Project
Jan 14 2023
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Joining a Consultancy: What Surprised Me Most
Dec 25 2022
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What I Hope Front-End Looks Like in 5 Years
Nov 28 2022
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Tech Trends I’m Watching—And the Ones I’m Ignoring
Oct 26 2022
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How To Prepare a Junior Dev for Promotion
Sept 12 2022
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The Case Against Over-Abstracting Front-End Code
Aug 09 2022
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How I Plan My Week as a Senior Engineer
Jul 10 2022
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Why Devs Should Be Involved in Design Reviews
Jun 08 2022
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Building for the Next Dev: My Personal Rules
May 18 2022
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How to Explain Technical Debt to Non-Tech People
Apr 02 2022
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The Cost of Poor Front-End Decisions
Mar 27 2022
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Why Tennis Tactics Apply to Software Teams
Feb 07 2022
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Being a Tech Generalist in a Specialist World
Jan 24 2022
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Why I Still Start Projects Without a Framework
Dec 14 2021
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Reflections on Another Year of Change
Nov 25 2021
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The Case for Writing Your Own Component Library
Oct 08 2021
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What Makes a Senior Dev? (Spoiler: It’s Not Just Code)
Sept 23 2021
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The Business Value of Good UX (Explained for Devs)
Aug 14 2021
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How to Make Front-End Development Less Fragile
Jul 20 2021
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Learning From Losing: What Sport Taught Me About Feedback
Jun 15 2021
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Why I Still Use TypeScript (Even When It Slows Me Down)
May 11 2021
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Changing Jobs Mid-Career: Why I Took the Leap
Apr 06 2021
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How to Build a Culture of Code Ownership
Mar 09 2021
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The One CSS Feature I Wish Everyone Used
Feb 26 2021
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Leading Small Dev Teams Without Micromanaging
Jan 13 2021
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The Post-Pandemic Dev: What’s Changed Forever?
Dec 18 2020
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2020 in Tech: What I’m Taking With Me
Nov 16 2020
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How I Structure a New Front-End Codebase
Oct 08 2020
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Back to Basics: The Power of Clean HTML
Sept 04 2020
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How to Say No Without Being a Bottleneck
Aug 08 2020
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Managing Front-End Performance Like a Product
Jul 26 2020
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How Golf Keeps Me Focused (Even on Buggy Days)
Jun 24 2020
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Helping Juniors Thrive in Uncertain Times
May 20 2020
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The Return of Simplicity in Web Design
Apr 18 2020
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Technical Writing as a Superpower
Mar 18 2020
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CSS-in-JS: Still Not For Me
Feb 18 2020
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The Power of Side Projects During a Crisis
Jan 28 2020
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Remote Leadership in a Suddenly Remote World
Dec 19 2019
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Wrapping Up the Decade: What I Hope Front-End Learns Next
Nov 17 2019
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When JavaScript is Too Much: Using HTML and CSS Instead
Oct 05 2019
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Making the Most of One-on-Ones With Your Manager
Sept 20 2019
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Why I Still Prefer SCSS Over Utility-First CSS
Jul 25 2019
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How to Give Talks When You’re Not a ‘Speaker’
Jun 02 2019
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The Myth of the Full Stack Unicorn
May 17 2019
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Cricket, Code and the Importance of Timing
May 04 2019
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Let’s Talk About Dev Burnout
Apr 16 2019
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What I Learnt Building a Real-Time Web App
Apr 09 2019
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The First 30 Days of a New Dev Job
Mar 09 2019
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Refactoring Legacy CSS Without the Tears
Feb 02 2019
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Design Systems Are Not Optional Anymore
Dec 22 2018
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Reflections on My Dev Year: One Win Per Month
Nov 28 2018
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Modern Front-End Build Tools: What’s Actually Worth It?
Oct 24 2018
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Leading Through Change: When the Team Gets Reshuffled
Sept 08 2018
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How I Use TypeScript Without Losing Flexibility
Aug 09 2018
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Dark Mode Isn’t Just a Gimmick
Jul 17 2018
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What Tennis Taught Me About Teamwork
Jun 27 2018
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When CSS Breaks: Debugging with Empathy
Jun 13 2018
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Why Tech Leaders Should Still Write Code
Apr 04 2018
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Getting More Out of Code Reviews
Mar 13 2018
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Testing Front-End Code Without Losing Your Mind
Feb 18 2018
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How to Build Confidence in Junior Devs
Jan 15 2018
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Why Writing CSS is Still a Craft
Dec 06 2017
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Looking Back at a Year of Leading Devs
Nov 26 2017
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Why I Still Use Vanilla JS for Side Projects
Oct 26 2017
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When You Should Actually Rewrite Everything
Sept 28 2017
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The Only Good Commit Message Is a Clear One
Aug 21 2017
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How a Pattern Library Becomes a Culture
Jul 08 2017
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The Front-End Tooling Overwhelm: My Coping Strategy
Jun 11 2017
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Tech Debt vs UX Debt: Spot the Difference
May 24 2017
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CSS Variables Are Your New Best Friend
May 06 2017
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Semantic HTML Isn’t Dead
Mar 11 2017
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What Cricket Selection Teaches Us About Hiring Engineers
Mar 11 2017
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From Dev to Manager: Shifting Your Mindset
Feb 25 2017
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How to Make Pair Programming Less Awkward
Dec 21 2016
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End-of-Year Retros: What Worked, What Didn’t
Nov 07 2016
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Building Internal Tools That People Actually Use
Oct 19 2016
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The MVP Trap: When ‘Just Enough’ Becomes Too Little
Sept 08 2016
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Naming Conventions in CSS: A Love Letter to BEM (Sort Of)
Aug 11 2016
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Making Time for Learning When You’re Flat Out
Jul 08 2016
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Lessons From Coaching: Getting Tech Teams to Play as a Unit
Jun 08 2016
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Deploying With Confidence: My Front-End Deployment Process
May 08 2016
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How to Interview for a Front-End Job Without Faking It
Apr 23 2016
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CSS Grid: At Last, Layout Makes Sense
Mar 03 2016
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Golf vs Dev: Why You Can’t Rush Either
Feb 08 2016
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Angular, React, Vue—Why I Tried All Three
Jan 24 2016
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The January Dev Blues and How to Beat Them
Dec 23 2015
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Making the Web Work for Everyone: Accessibility as a Mindset
Nov 12 2015
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When to Say No to the Latest JS Framework
Oct 21 2015
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How Cricket Taught Me Patience as a Developer
Oct 03 2015
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Ten Years In: How Front-End Has Grown Up (and Out)
Sept 11 2015
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Teaching the Next Dev: Why Explaining Your CSS Matters
Aug 03 2015
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Why Building a Pattern Library Isn’t Just a Dev Task
Jul 18 2015
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Managing a Tiny Team With Big Ambitions
Jun 17 2015
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HTML5 and the Lost Art of Markup
Apr 15 2015
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Why I Don't Use Bootstrap for Every Project
Mar 20 2015
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Grunt, Sass, Mustache: My Go-To Toolkit in 2015
Feb 20 2015
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The Joy of Starting from Scratch
Jan 06 2015
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Why Good CSS Still Matters in 2015