I work on web application architecture and developer experience. At Google, that included an internal framework used across YouTube and a major infrastructure migration.
I’ve also helped shape technical learning with the people behind Total TypeScript, Epic React, and Testing Accessibility. Through O’Reilly, I teach engineers to build AI applications with React and Next.js.
My engineering workMy earlier explanation of monorepos used a forest as a metaphor for projects sharing resources. That is a useful starting point, but it leaves out the decision that matters: which parts of the code should change…
When Clerk handles authentication, your application still has to decide where its own user data belongs. A valid session and a row in your database are different things. Signing in does not mean that an asynchronous…
AI agents can produce code quickly. Writing code is no longer the only bottleneck. The difficult parts are defining the right work, maintaining the architecture, and reviewing the resulting volume of code. A useful…