Articles
A collection of my most popular blog posts that are sometimes useful guides, sometimes sarcastic rants, and always in some way related to software development.
Projects
NewBusinessMonitor
A business intelligence service for the UK market that provides the latest UK company data from Companies House. It sorts, filters, and geocodes all of the data, enabling you to quickly find highly-targeted B2B sales leads. Companies can be queried from the dashboard for active marketing, and regular reports can be emailed to you, saving you time and effort.
Haskell, But Quickly
I'm writing a book about building and deploying web applications with Haskell and Yesod. The book takes a pragmatic approach, allowing you to immediately get your hands dirty and produce something tangible quickly.
Speaking
Haskell on Rails
Build Stuff — Odessa, Ukraine
July 12, 2016
For years, Rails has been the framework of choice for developers who need to Get Things Done. But what happens when the complexity of the system inevitably grows? We write tests, and more tests, and even more tests, and still we're on our knees, fighting fires and debugging. We need better tools. In this talk I show how build web applications with one of the fastest and most stable languages in the industry: Haskell.
The World's Most Boring Build System
Falsy Values — Warsaw, Poland
October 12, 2015
The front-end community has matured immensely in the past five years with automated build systems and package managers written in JavaScript becoming commonplace. But how did we get here? And what has this really cost us? We know every line of code is a liability, and the best line of code is the one that doesn’t exist. JavaScript build systems are complicated and verbose, and it doesn’t need to be this way.
Repository Statistics with Git and D3
Falsy Values — Warsaw, Poland
October 12, 2015
A short talk on extracting repository statistics with Git and Bash, and visualising the data in a line graph generated with the D3.js JavaScript library. This is useful for developing an understanding of how your software project is growing and (hopefully!) shrinking over time.
Simplicity Master
Developer on Fire Podcast
December 31, 2015
An interview for the Developer on Fire podcast where I chat with Dave Rael about great tools, mastering the command line, the primacy of simplicity, and geeking out about the rotation axes of the arms when typing. Includes rants about JavaScript, stories of failure, and advice for broadening your skills as a developer.