Two things I had been putting off for years both happened in 2019, and both were about the machine I work on rather than the code I write. I moved off Windows to Ubuntu for good, a...

Very little front-end in my 2015. This was a year of servers: a PHP 5.6 migration across a platform, wildcard certificates so everything could finally go to HTTPS, a search server...

2010 was the year of the fixed-price website: a designer sends a PSD, you turn it into a working site with a CMS behind it, you invoice a round number, and you keep the hosting and...

There is what I built in 2009, and there is what I actually spent the days on, and the two barely overlap. What I built 2009 is the peak year for the strategy I started in 2008...

I started my own company this year, which makes 2004 the formal start of everything the rest of this blog is about. It did not feel like a milestone at the time. It felt like paper...