Writing
Things I've written
Essays on engineering leadership, craft, and culture.
Leadership
- The Goalkeeper's Guide to Engineering Management: Which Goalkeeper Are You? Kahn, Buffon, Dudek — three ways to lead. The real skill isn't locking into one style forever. It's knowing which one the moment requires.
- The Goalkeeper's Guide to Engineering Management: The Penalty Kick Every engineering manager faces penalty kicks. The question isn't whether you'll dive. It's whether you'll commit.
- The Checklist Origin Story From Boeing's 1935 crash to CrowdStrike — how aviation's greatest safety innovation became software engineering's most underused tool.
- The Fishing Net Problem What we get wrong about measuring engineering efficiency — Goodhart's Law, DORA metrics, and the survivorship bias baked into most dashboards.
Coding
- Future-Proof Your Code: Mastering JavaScript Data Grouping From forEach loops to Object.groupBy — a practical guide to data grouping in JavaScript with TypeScript-safe implementations.
- Unlock the Craic: The Konami Code in TypeScript How to create a secret easter egg page triggered by the classic Konami Code — keyboard event detection in TypeScript from scratch.