Tag: dev

All the articles with the tag "dev".

• Commit Messages & PR Titles

  23 Mar, 2026

  A practical guide to writing clearer commits and PRs. What I arrived at after almost two decades of questioning whether I was doing it right.

• Ode to ADRs

  17 Mar, 2026

  Why Architecture Decision Records are one of the most underrated tools in software engineering, and why I start every project with them.

• Quick Image Resizing with macOS Automator

  10 Mar, 2026

  Simple Automator Quick Actions to resize images to 25% or 50% directly from Finder's right-click menu.

• The Invariant Pattern - Cleaner TypeScript with Assertion Functions

  20 Aug, 2025

  How the invariant pattern can eliminate endless null checks and make your TypeScript code more readable and type-safe.

• Managing Default Code Editors on macOS

  13 Aug, 2025

  A simple bash script to quickly switch default file associations when jumping between code editors like VSCode, Cursor, and Windsurf.

• Bulk Image Conversion to WebP with a Simple Zsh Function

  8 Aug, 2025

  A practical Zsh function to batch convert images to WebP format with ImageMagick.

• Efficient API Polling in Redux RTK Query with EtagCacher

  22 Mar, 2024

  How to build a reusable caching utility that optimises API requests through ETag tracking and smart polling strategies.

• Merging Coverage from Jest and Cypress

  19 Sep, 2023

  How to unify unit and E2E test coverage into a single report. Solving inconsistency issues between SWC (Next.js/Jest) and Babel (Cypress).

• .dotfiles - one to rule them all

  5 Feb, 2017

  My personal repository to rule all the dotfiles and set up my working environment in a matter of seconds.