I recently took some time to create a small web application that I ended up calling Svadilfari. This was a project I worked on alone on some weekends around my full-time job. This project is a good example of how I have developed my process of developing personal projects alone …

Misconceptions about how software engineers create value cause people to believe the darndest things. For instance, the public seems to believe machine learning will reduce the value and demand for software engineers, while competent software engineers seem to view machine learning as a new tool that makes them even more …

Full stack web development can be daunting to get into until you reach the point where your development environment starts to feel like home. Docker has been the single most important tool for me to get to that point. Whenever I want to create a project that involves a web …

Postgres is the best relational database system. This is law. One of the reasons for this is due to how easily it works with the JSON format. If I'm working with SQL, I'm probably also working with Javascript and Javascript is married to JSON. I am going to go over …