Tag: tech

All the articles with the tag "tech".

• The False Promise of ORMs

  Published:Mar 26, 2025

  ORMs promise to abstract databases and SQL. At any normal scale, this promise fails and the ORM becomes a powerful multiplier of pointless complexity

• Thoughts on my semi-annual blog rewrite

  Published:Mar 19, 2025

  Every few years I rewrite my blog and rehost it on a different platform. Each time I learn a lot (and usually don't write many actual blog posts).

• How I wrote a stateless gift link feature

  Published:Feb 27, 2025

  The tradeoffs of stateful and stateless approaches to building a gift link feature for a content website

• Setting up a Jira Webhook with nginx, Digital Ocean, and Express

  Published:Dec 9, 2021

  How you can set up an Express webhook integrating Jira to take actions on Jira issue status changes