Writing
Notes on platforms, architecture, and the craft of shipping software.
Vectorising a 2012 logo
The last thing the WordPress-to-Astro migration left behind was a blurry PNG logo. Rebuilding it as a vector meant identifying a fourteen-year-old font, tracing three blobs pixel by pixel, and learning which cut of Pacifico I actually needed.
Read more →Artetecha is back
From a London consultancy to an Italian practice: why this site returned, and what it runs on now.
Read more →WordPress to Astro in a day
How this site went from a WordPress stack with three backing services to a static Astro build — content migration, redirects, and dark mode included — in a single working day.
Read more →How Open Source practices can help bridge the communication gap in remote-first companies
How the public-by-default communication, netiquette, and documentation habits of open source communities can fix the communication gap in remote-first companies.
Read more →The Invisible Gap: Inequalities Between Employees and Contractors in Remote-First Tech Companies
Why the contractor arrangements common in remote-first tech companies create real inequalities and legal risks, and how Employer of Record services can close the gap.
Read more →(Reverse) Polish Notation in JavaScript
Solving Polish and Reverse Polish Notation expressions in JavaScript, from a classic stack-based approach to a more elegant version using an operator map.
Read more →Making the most of old devices
How a rooted 2013 Minix Neo X7 Android TV box found a second life as a 30Mbps VPN router instead of ending up in a drawer.
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