The remote development mirage

A post on X predicted that development would all move to remote sandboxes. Here is why I think that is a mirage, what makes the model attractive to executives and unappealing to developers, and where selling compute actually makes sense.

On finding passion in devising developer experiences

What am I professionally? I don't have a clear answer. I used to say I was an iOS developer with a passion for Swift , but that's no longer true. Shopify turned me into a more generalist developer and, more importantly, helped me see techno…

Modular projects, Typescript, and developer experience

Have you tried to set up a modular Typescript project with multiple NPM packages? It's painful. Typescript tried to solve that with project references , an API to declare the project graph to Typescript for it to build the packages in the c…

./dev

One of the things that I appreciate as a developer is having a consistent experience across projects . As you probably know, this is often not the case when running a project locally. Some ask you to run yarn run ios . Others prefer an exec…