Notes from the slow lane.
I write when something was hard enough to be worth writing down — architecture calls I’d make again, a few I wouldn’t, and the view from long enough in the trade to have seen the same idea arrive three times under new names.
Posts & talks
Essays
Medium — PillowSoft Posts
The archive, 2016 to now: mobile, GraphQL, serverless, .NET and F#, and the occasional detour into the quantified self.
Slides
Talks & decks
Conference and meetup talks — a good deal of Indy JS, Xamarin, Relay and React from the mid-2010s.
Code
GitHub
Questions I asked with the source attached, answers I gave with the same. Arguably the most honest thing on this list.
Recurring subjects
- Architecture
- Digital video
- Flutter
- AI
- Vibe coding
- React
- Serverless
- Quantified self