The Maker’s Routine

Makers need time to work on passion projects. Finding a way to fit this between life’s numerous obligations can seem impossible. But it can be done. With a simple, repeatable daily routine.

Even quicker dirty static sites

A review of the quickest, simplest, and cheapest options available for immediate static website cloud hosting.

Quick and dirty static sites

There’s often a need to rapidly build-out or make changes to static websites (simple HTML or JavaScript sites that don’t require a back-end or database), and quickly get them up on a staging server for client review. These are the tools and techniques you can use to develop locally and deploy to a temporary cloud server efficiently.

The Frugal Maker

A list of battle-tested production-ready products and services I use in my own apps. Every product listed offers a free tier. Never pay more than you need again.

Design For Developers

Use this one simple design principle to make your user interfaces beautiful.

How Do I Learn To Code?

Learning to code can sound like a daunting, complicated, and difficult journey if you’re just starting out. Fortunately, we live in a time where the resources to learn for beginner and advanced programmers alike have never been more readily available.

The Pragmatic Perfectionist

You’re ready to launch your project— as soon as it’s perfect! Why does it never seem to be perfect? Overcome perfectionism and get things done.