Techblog
Nathan's thoughts on technology, programming, and everything else. Delivered with straight-faced sarcasm.
Dopefly 2026 on Eleventy
Website finally gets the redesign it always wanted
React is Harmful - 25 Reasons Why
Twenty-five reasons why you should use anything but React
4 Reasons why you should write your own feature flag system
Don't let someone else's code keep you from greatness.
I Wrote My Own Feature Flag System
Feature flags are just conditional statements over strings.
I Wrote My Own Dapper, a .NET Micro-ORM
This time, I really should have asked around before I started coding.
I Wrote My Own Axios
And you should, too! Maybe.
I Wrote My Own Vue.js
This was also my last jQuery project, FYI.
I wrote my own ORM
I removed 3,000 lines of redundant SQL statements. Probably unnecessarily.
I Wrote my own Hybrid SPA+SSR Framework
You thought it was a solved problem, but no, I re-solved it.
I wrote my own Fusebox
How a software expert embarrasses himself by writing code that didn't need to be written.