Blog Posts Archive

All 182 blog posts, organized by year.

2026

• From Fresh Mac to Productive in 30 Minutes

  3rd January 2026 • 6 min read

2025

• My 2025 Year in Review

  30th December 2025 • 8 min read

• What Makes Goose Different From Other AI Coding Agents

  29th December 2025 • 12 min read

• Advent of AI 2025 - Day 17: Building a Wishlist App with Goose and MCP-UI

  27th December 2025 • 3 min read

• Advent of AI 2025 - Day 16: Planning With .goosehints

  23rd December 2025 • 5 min read

• Advent of AI 2025 - Day 15: Goose Sub-Recipes

  21st December 2025 • 4 min read

• Advent of AI 2025 - Day 14: Agent Skills

  19th December 2025 • 5 min read

• Advent of AI - Day 13: Goose Terminal Integration

  19th December 2025 • 5 min read

• Advent of AI - Day 12: MCP Sampling

  17th December 2025 • 5 min read

• Advent of AI - Day 11: Goose Subagents

  17th December 2025 • 5 min read

• My Newsletter: Growth, Fun, Slow & Steady

  15th December 2025 • 3 min read

• Advent of AI - Day 10: Understanding Arguments in Goose Recipes

  14th December 2025 • 7 min read

• What are AI Evals?

  13th December 2025 • 5 min read

• Advent of AI 2025 - Day 9: Building a Gift Tag Generator with Goose Recipes

  12th December 2025 • 5 min read

• Advent of AI 2025 - Day 8: Messy Data to Structured Output

  11th December 2025 • 4 min read

• Advent of AI 2025 - Day 7: Goose Recipes

  10th December 2025 • 18 min read

• Advent of AI 2025 - Day 6: Automating GitHub Issue Triage with Goose

  9th December 2025 • 4 min read

• Advent of AI 2025 - Day 5: I Built a Touchless Flight Tracker You Control With Hand Gestures

  8th December 2025 • 9 min read

• Advent of AI 2025 - Day 4: Building a Winter Festival Website with Goose

  5th December 2025 • 3 min read

• I Switched Shell History Tools. Here's Why

  4th December 2025 • 6 min read

• Advent of AI 2025 - Day 3: Building Data Visualizations with Goose

  4th December 2025 • 4 min read

• Advent of AI 2025 - Day 2: Building a Winter Festival Game

  3rd December 2025 • 3 min read

• Advent of AI 2025 - Day 1: Getting Goose to Generate Daily Fortunes in CI

  2nd December 2025 • 3 min read

• How I Automated My GitHub Profile (And You Can Too)

  30th November 2025 • 5 min read

• How I Used Claude Code to Speed Up My Shell Startup by 95%

  27th November 2025 • 7 min read

• Anyone Can Commit Code as You on GitHub (Here's How to Stop Them)

  26th October 2025 • 7 min read

• Build Your First (or Next) MCP Server with the TypeScript MCP Template

  7th October 2025 • 6 min read

• Quick Fix: My MCP Tools Were Showing as Write Tools in ChatGPT Dev Mode

  11th September 2025 • 2 min read

• Introducing the dev.to MCP server

  29th July 2025 • 4 min read

• Git Worktrees: Git Done Right

  21st July 2025 • 4 min read

• Don't Get Rate-Limited: Use Let's Encrypt Staging

  16th June 2025 • 3 min read

• Getting McFly Working on Ubuntu Server

  26th May 2025 • 4 min read

• Astro Server Islands: How They Work and When to Use Them

  19th May 2025 • 4 min read

• Funding in Open Source: A Conversation with Chad Whitacre

  13th May 2025 • 4 min read

• Go's singleflight package and why it's awesome for concurrent requests

  5th May 2025 • 3 min read

• BenQ RD280U Review: A 28" 4K Monitor Built for Developers

  13th April 2025 • 4 min read

• London Adventures: KubeCon EU 2025, SREday and More!

  6th April 2025 • 5 min read

• The RayCast Port Manager Extension

  6th February 2025 • 2 min read

• I’m joining Pomerium!

  13th January 2025 • 2 min read

• Building an Ollama-Powered GitHub Copilot Extension

  6th January 2025 • 5 min read

2024

• My 2024 Year in Review

  27th December 2024 • 6 min read

• Creating a GitHub Copilot Extension: A Step-by-Step Guide

  30th September 2024 • 9 min read

• What is GenAIScript?

  27th September 2024 • 2 min read

• Introducing the OpenSauced Pizza GitHub Action: Automate Your Repository Management

  20th September 2024 • 3 min read

• Supercharge Your GitHub Profile: Showcase Your Open Source Contributions

  19th August 2024 • 4 min read

• Multitenant Database Schemas

  29th July 2024 • 4 min read

• Review: Fifine Ampligame AM6 Condenser Mic

  12th July 2024 • 3 min read

• The React useRef Hook: Not Just for DOM Elements

  8th July 2024 • 3 min read

• Valibot: A New Approach to Data Validation in JavaScript

  17th June 2024 • 4 min read

• The State of .NET Tooling in 2024

  14th May 2024 • 6 min read

• Tools that keep me productive

  6th May 2024 • 8 min read

• Creating an OG image using React and Netlify Edge Functions

  16th April 2024 • 3 min read

• Form and Function: How I Lost My Submit Button & Got It Back

  2nd April 2024 • 4 min read

• Stuck in the Middle with You: An intro to Middleware

  14th March 2024 • 7 min read

• Challenging the Skeptics: Unveiling the Undeniable Goodness of Tailwind CSS

  6th February 2024 • 5 min read

• Review: Logitech Litra Glow Premium LED Streaming Light with TrueSoft

  1st February 2024 • 3 min read

• Unlocking the Power of HTML's Native Browser Dialog Element

  23rd January 2024 • 3 min read

• My 2023 Year in Review

  7th January 2024 • 7 min read

2023

• Migrating from Jest to Vitest for your React Application

  14th December 2023 • 4 min read

• HTML Data Attributes: One of the Original State Management Libraries

  30th November 2023 • 4 min read

• TypeScript: Infer Types to Avoid Explicit Types

  21st November 2023 • 5 min read

• Boost productivity with the GitHub CLI

  14th November 2023 • 10 min read

• TypeScript and React: Enforcing Props for Accessibility

  6th November 2023 • 5 min read

• GitHub Actions: A Maintainer's Best Friend

  31st October 2023 • 4 min read

• Getting Saucy: I Joined OpenSauced!

  23rd September 2023 • 2 min read

• Supercharge your Repository with Code Owners

  21st September 2023 • 3 min read

• How to debug a Firefox add-on (extension)

  17th August 2023 • 3 min read

• Kettlebells & Code: Dev Health

  9th August 2023 • 2 min read

• Have questions about ESLint?

  2nd April 2023 • 1 min read

• Transform Your Portfolio Website with These Expert Tips

  12th March 2023 • 3 min read

• Where do you find community?

  19th February 2023 • 4 min read

• Twitter charging for API usage starting Feb. 9th

  2nd February 2023 • 1 min read

2022

• Non-tech Reading Recommendations?

  26th December 2022 • 1 min read

• My 2022 Year in Review

  24th December 2022 • 6 min read

• Have you moved from Twitter to Mastodon for social media?

  20th November 2022 • 2 min read

• App to grab your Revue newsletters

  13th November 2022 • 1 min read

• Revue being phased out by Twitter

  10th November 2022 • 1 min read

• Automate and Auto-Merge Pull Requests using GitHub Actions and the GitHub CLI

  6th November 2022 • 5 min read

• What is The Collab Lab?

  26th October 2022 • 1 min read

• Build framework-agnostic components with Mitosis

  18th October 2022 • 4 min read

• Repurposing Content for Content Creation

  16th October 2022 • 2 min read

• Funding in open source

  9th October 2022 • 5 min read

• Hacktoberfest 2022: Preptember!

  25th September 2022 • 2 min read

• More engagement through series on dev.to

  11th September 2022 • 1 min read

• Live reloading in Rust

  3rd September 2022 • 1 min read

• Contributing to Open Source and how Open Sauced can help

  2nd August 2022 • 58 min read

• What is Deno?

  14th July 2022 • 8 min read

• Learning Resources for TypeScript

  10th July 2022 • 2 min read

• a11y-twitter: a browser extension for making Tweets more accessible

  2nd July 2022 • 4 min read

• Speech-to-text with Deepgram

  22nd June 2022 • 1 min read

• Automate syndication of your content with Eleventy, dev.to, and GitHub Actions

  26th May 2022 • 6 min read

• Ecosystem and Frameworks: My Role at Netlify

  12th May 2022 • 2 min read

• Review: Logitech ERGO K860 Wireless Keyboard

  6th May 2022 • 3 min read

• Enabling keyboard navigation on your Mac

  2nd April 2022 • 1 min read

• Strongly Typed JSON in TypeScript

  1st April 2022 • 2 min read

• Productivity Tools I Use

  29th March 2022 • 2 min read

• How to Use a React Hook in a Class Component

  28th March 2022 • 2 min read

• npx gitignore

  26th March 2022 • 1 min read

• My Impact at Forem

  24th March 2022 • 4 min read

2021

• My 2021 Year in Review

  31st December 2021 • 5 min read

• Frontend Developer Resources 2022

  28th December 2021 • 8 min read

• How I Do Code Reviews

  9th December 2021 • 4 min read

• An NFT based game

  28th October 2021 • 2 min read

• I built my first dApp!

  19th October 2021 • 2 min read

• First impressions of Polywork as a software engineer

  18th August 2021 • 6 min read

• Getting Started with Streaming on Twitch

  28th July 2021 • 5 min read

• Getting Started with Regular Expressions

  18th July 2021 • 4 min read

• I started a newsletter!

  12th June 2021 • 1 min read

• Pairing with Meg Gutshall

  10th June 2021 • 1 min read

• I Started a JavaScript Stream on Twitch!

  30th May 2021 • 1 min read

• Pairing with Jhey Tompkins

  12th May 2021 • 1 min read

• Jamstack and Serverless with Jason Lengstorf

  7th May 2021 • 2 min read

• Pairing with Community Manager Christina Gorton

  21st April 2021 • 1 min read

• Learning Rust

  18th April 2021 • 1 min read

• My Twitch Stream Setup

  17th April 2021 • 2 min read

• Pairing with Community Member Seth Hall

  18th March 2021 • 1 min read

• Storybook Talk / Live Coding

  16th March 2021 • 2 min read

• Pairing with Community Member Jono Yeong

  19th February 2021 • 1 min read

• Pairing with Community Member Dan Ott

  3rd February 2021 • 2 min read

• Pairing with Community Member Rafi

  22nd January 2021 • 2 min read

2020

• My 2020 Year in Review

  31st December 2020 • 6 min read

• Testing Preact/React Portals with Testing Library

  30th November 2020 • 9 min read

• Pairing with Community Member Marie Antons

  2nd November 2020 • 1 min read

• Pairing with Community Member Rachael Wright-Munn

  27th October 2020 • 1 min read

• Pairing with Community Member Eliot Sanford

  19th October 2020 • 1 min read

• Set up a git precommit hook with husky, lint-staged, prettier, and stylelint

  18th October 2020 • 5 min read

• Pairing with Taniyah Jackson on Pinning Comments to Articles

  21st September 2020 • 1 min read

• Building out the Go Playground Liquid Tag for DEV with Chuck Smith

  15th September 2020 • 1 min read

• See the big picture

  30th August 2020 • 2 min read

• Not Captain Obvious

  3rd August 2020 • 2 min read

• Converting a Preact Component to use hooks with Sophia Li

  27th July 2020 • 1 min read

• Let's Pair during a Live Coding Session!

  14th July 2020 • 2 min read

• Changelog: Frontend Edition

  24th June 2020 • 5 min read

• Changelog: DEV has Some Stories for You

  22nd May 2020 • 2 min read

• Changelog: Subscribe to a Post’s Threads v2

  6th May 2020 • 1 min read

• DEV as a Headless CMS for your Gatsby Site

  15th April 2020 • 3 min read

• I've Started to Live Code on Twitch for DEV

  1st April 2020 • 2 min read

• Changelog: DEV upgraded to Webpacker 4/Babel 7

  20th March 2020 • 2 min read

• A New Year, a New Start: I'm Joining the DEV Team!

  21st January 2020 • 2 min read

• Pock an awesome utility for the Mac Touchbar

  21st January 2020 • 1 min read

• Frontend Developer Resources 2020

  6th January 2020 • 11 min read

• My 2019 Year in Review

  2nd January 2020 • 17 min read

2019

• Cool Rust and WebAssembly Resource

  7th December 2019 • 1 min read

• Evaluating the new Microsoft Edge

  23rd November 2019 • 3 min read

• Need Help Picking a Tabletop Colour

  28th October 2019 • 1 min read

• Toast Messages

  24th October 2019 • 1 min read

• You do not need to use the classnames package

  23rd October 2019 • 2 min read

• My Hacktoberfest 2019

  15th October 2019 • 1 min read

• My Shell Aliases

  11th October 2019 • 1 min read

• Update Dependencies with Dependabot, Cypress and Netlify

  16th August 2019 • 6 min read

• dev.to’s Frontend: a brain dump in one act

  23rd April 2019 • 8 min read

• dev.to with a TypeScript or Flow frontend codebase?

  7th April 2019 • 2 min read

• An a11y extension coming to a browser near you

  1st April 2019 • 2 min read

• HTML Forms: Back to Basics

  28th March 2019 • 3 min read

• Ink: React for CLIs

  9th March 2019 • 1 min read

• Showcase your Gatsby Site

  28th February 2019 • 1 min read

• An Enhanced TypeScript Playground

  26th February 2019 • 1 min read

• git-history

  13th February 2019 • 1 min read

• TypeScript Tips Part II: Declaration Merging

  12th February 2019 • 3 min read

• dom-chef - Build DOM Elements with JSX

  2nd February 2019 • 1 min read

• TypeScript Tips Part I

  25th January 2019 • 3 min read

• Any contribution to Open Source is valuable

  22nd January 2019 • 2 min read

• The CSS mask property

  9th January 2019 • 2 min read

• Take chances and stand out

  5th January 2019 • 5 min read

• 📦 webpack secrets

  1st January 2019 • 1 min read

2018

• scoped-style

  30th December 2018 • 1 min read

• My 2018 Year in Review

  29th December 2018 • 3 min read

• Can you create the great Redux store?

  8th September 2018 • 1 min read

• Setting up Storybook for Preact

  2nd September 2018 • 3 min read

• My Git Aliases

  26th August 2018 • 4 min read

• Getting Started with Storybook for React

  26th March 2018 • 3 min read

• Probably another Battleship board on Code Pen

  9th February 2018 • 1 min read

• A 💩 Notification Code Pen

  27th January 2018 • 1 min read

• Have a Handy JS Snippet You Want to Share?

  23rd January 2018 • 2 min read

• A Simple ⭐ Rating Code Pen

  19th January 2018 • 1 min read

• Quick Hulk Code Pen

  13th January 2018 • 1 min read

• My Mac Setup

  12th January 2018 • 9 min read

• 2018 Resolutions

  3rd January 2018 0

2017

• My Visual Studio Code Setup

  23rd December 2017 • 6 min read

• Consider Using TypeScript

  8th October 2017 • 5 min read

• My Talk on React Storybook at the js-montreal Meetup

  27th June 2017 • 1 min read

• Hi, I'm Nick Taylor

  12th March 2017 • 1 min read