It's 2025, and JIRA is still clunky
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I’ve been dragged back into Jira after five years of bliss with Linear, and it’s rough.
2025
2024
Operational transformation & conflict-free resolution for real-time collaboration applications
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Recently talking with a company that needs to provide real-time collaboration within their application, I started to think about the problem. Operational transformation (OT) and conflict-free replicates data types (CRDTs) are solutions to this problem.
Techniques to make rebasing less of a headache
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I often see developers merging main into their feature branches and opening pull requests (PRs) that include commits from other branches. This practice leads to “git spaghetti,” which has several consequences:
I built a GPT-powered email assistant - HeyJamie
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Jamie AI is a project I embarked on to build a human-like virtual assistant that I could CC on emails to take care of my admin. I originally intended very much to open source this, but I’ve decided to make it into a product.
2023
Sharing encrypted data over short-form mediums
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Sharing large amounts of data over short-form mediums like QR codes or NFC tags can be challenging. The data needs to be encrypted to ensure confidentiality, but packing useful data into a small space is difficult.
Distributed Trust with Service-to-Service Authentication
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In Service-oriented Architectures (SOA) the “services” are the fundamental building blocks of your application. Authenticating requests between services is a challenge.
OCR on Edge Compute
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Running models closer to your users can be a huge win for performance and cost. Here’s an experiment in running OCR on the edge with Cloudflare Constellation.
2022
Quit nesting React providers
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This is a simple example of a TypeScript React function that can assist in combining many Provider components, such as those used by React Context, into a straightforward function.
Save time importing Cloudflare DNS records
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Cloudflare’s UI for managing DNS records is nice, but this method can help you import larger batches of changes faster.
2021
Rebase to freshen up your branch
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I’m a member of a few software teams and, very frequently, we commit code to our main branch. Common themes within my teams are not to have a develop branch or even release cycles. Instead, we release regularly.