Patterns
A Playbook for Side Projects
How to spin up a scalable, high-quality, low-cost system to support that next business idea.
Projects
steal-port: Reclaim Ports from Coding Agents
A CLI utility that kills whatever process is using your port, designed for developers working with AI coding assistants.
Patterns
API Mocking Pattern for React and Storybook
A clean pattern for swapping between real and mock APIs without polluting your components with mocking logic.
Patterns
Data Models and Validation with Zod
A pattern for shared, runtime-validated data models that catch issues early and keep frontend and backend in sync.
Patterns
Organising Environment Files
As the number of apps, services and environments grow over time, these tips keep your environment configurations files more manageable
Patterns
Environment Configuration Best Practices
Fail fast with explicit values. No defaults, no fallbacks, no computed configuration.
Opinion
Null vs Undefined
null and undefined are not interchangeable. Treating them as such blurs intent, weakens APIs, and forces defensive code everywhere.
Patterns
Lambda Tips
Tips for making lambdas easier to debug and maintain.
Patterns
Fixing Tailwind Culling in Monorepos
A practical pattern for preventing Tailwind from culling classes in shared monorepo components.
Tips
SwiftUI: Tips and Tricks
The following article lists some SwiftUI features and design patterns that I personally like to refer back to. The criteria was simply things that might not be immediately obvious to novice/intermediate Swift coder.
Tips
NestJS: benefits, cheatsheet and tips
NestJS is a great library for creating a web service. It strikes a nice balance between a comprehensive set of solutions to common problems, without feeling like a heavy framework. This article explains many of its features, before detailing some tips around things like seeding and AWS Lamda deployment.
Tips
mktouch = make directory + make file
A quick bash utility to make it fast and easy to create a new file within a new directory
Projects
Importing Rokoko character animations into Xcode using Blender
Rokoko provides an at home motion capture solution. The following articles explains how to import these animations across to a 3D character in Xcode, using a combination of Blender and a custom made cleanup tool called xcode-collada.
Projects
Importing Collada characters and animations from Mixamo into Xcode
If you're looking to add an animated character to your iPhone application, this article will guide you through importing Mixamo characters into Xcode. Additionally, I'll introduce my tool, xcode-collada, which ensures your DAE files are correctly formatted for Xcode.