Building software, breaking things, and documenting the journey
Every ambitious project hits a wall of negative feedback. The difference between failure and breakthrough is knowing whether the crowd is correcting your course or simply reacting to disruption.
Joe Peterson
How I built Year Progress—a highly stylized, multi-theme application that scores a flawless 100 across the board on Lighthouse without shipping a single megabyte of framework code. Welcome to the joy of raw, unadulterated web development.
Joe Peterson
LLM coding assistants excel at the easy 80% that takes 20% of the effort. But that leaves the hard 20% that requires 80% of the expertise, and that's where the real engineering happens.
Joe Peterson
Updated October 2025 - From Next.js 15 and the mature App Router to advanced caching strategies and edge computing - here are the battle-tested patterns for building applications that scale to millions of users in 2025.
Joe Peterson
Key insights from 6 years leading technology development at POUND, growing from startup to global fitness brand with millions of users.
Joe Peterson
Every ambitious project hits a wall of negative feedback. The difference between failure and breakthrough is knowing whether the crowd is correcting your course or simply reacting to disruption.
Joe Peterson
How I built Year Progress—a highly stylized, multi-theme application that scores a flawless 100 across the board on Lighthouse without shipping a single megabyte of framework code. Welcome to the joy of raw, unadulterated web development.
Joe Peterson
Porcupin is a unified, cross-platform NFT backup solution for the Tezos ecosystem. Built with Go, Wails, and Kubo IPFS, it offers a robust tool for digital art custodianship.
Joe Peterson
LLM coding assistants excel at the easy 80% that takes 20% of the effort. But that leaves the hard 20% that requires 80% of the expertise, and that's where the real engineering happens.
Joe Peterson
Like the steam engine in John Henry's time, AI coding assistants aren't here to replace developers—they're tools that amplify human capability and create entirely new opportunities. Here's why this technological shift is a transformation, not an extinction.
Joe Peterson
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