Treating the timeline as the most important part of a project has burned me more than once — some thoughts on keeping quality under deadline pressure.

A link to Alistair Cockburn's piece on thinking through the algorithm before you start coding, rather than waiting for it to emerge.

Two unrelated events made me realise I show my personal projects no real love — no design, no milestones, no plan — and how I intend to fix that.

Contractor rates, the risk clients take on, and why staying contracting long-term means constantly investing in your own skills.

How I approached a 'simple' GitHub technical test as a senior developer — and the untested Sinatra page that came back to bite me.

How I accidentally burned a recruiter by taking a job months after he'd first mentioned it — a story about perception and other people's point of view.

Clever code is rarely better code — a JavaScript reduce trick compared with the boring loop that turned out simpler anyway.

An unsent blog draft from 2011 about the struggles of pairing with juniors, and what I've learned about it in the years since.

Filtering, grouping and sorting in Angular, and how stepping back from a complicated array-diffing fix led to a much simpler answer.

A friend wanted to hack the output of a gem I helped write; subclassing the JSON builder was far easier than fighting the library.