Posts by Arie

Why “accountability” is a buzzword.

Justifying code review to myself.

My thoughts on this espresso machine after 18 months.

How I got fired from my first developer job.

I’m sick of LinkedIn.

The most egregiously over-engineered solution I have ever been a part of.

How I felt after five years of being fully remote.

I got skill gapped but I think I learned something?

How I think candidates can leave less of the interview up to chance.

What I think about working longer hours.

I argue that the stigma around renting is unwarranted.

Why Deputy wasn’t right for me, in the end.

My advice for writing human-readable code, even in the age of AI.

Which comment system should you use for your static site?

How we built our hackathon project with Anthropic Claude and AWS.

How I restored a 50 year old camera into working order.

My criticism of Ben White’s property management software Ailo, and how renters are the product, not the user.

A quick article about what I learned on avoiding unsightly reflections.

How I’ve customised Neovim to my personal taste.

Notes while thinking through concurrency problems.

A presentation I made at Deputy to explain why we might choose rebasing over merging.

The challenge of implementing bitwise arithmetic in a high-level language without bitwise abstractions.

Personal projects from my high school and early university years that generated my first programming income.