The Acceleration of Revolution
Why each great economic and technological revolution arrives faster than the last, and why AI may be the most disruptive yet.
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WebSockets, Server-Sent Events, and HTTP Long Polling
A practical guide to real-time data delivery in web apps, comparing WebSockets, Server-Sent Events, and HTTP long polling, and when to use each.
Load Testing Your Website in 2026
A modern, practical guide to load testing web applications using Siege, k6, and Vegeta, updated for contemporary development workflows.
State Machines in Practice: Advantages, Disadvantages, and a TypeScript Example
A practical, engineer-friendly look at state machines: why they’re great, where they hurt, and a clean TypeScript finite-state-machine example.
AI’s Energy Bottleneck: Powering Intelligence on a Finite Planet
As AI scales, energy, not algorithms, may become the limiting factor. A high-level look at today’s constraints and how they could be overcome.
Accessible Markup for a Speech Input Button
A practical pattern for an accessible speech input trigger button: native button semantics, toggle state, live regions, and error announcements.
Green builds or it doesn’t ship: why teams must keep tests passing
Flaky tests, often caused by non-deterministic fake data, destroy trust in CI. Here’s how to enforce ‘always green’ and stabilise your suite.
Trunk-Based Development: When It Works, When It Doesn’t
A practical, opinionated guide to trunk-based development for experienced engineers and engineering managers, covering prerequisites, team size, benefits, and failure modes.