Post Archive

Mar 15, 2025

How Grand Theft Auto got me into tech.

The story of how my parents telling me I can't play Grand Theft Auto 20 years ago eventually led me into technology.

Feb 10, 2025

Bad for Business. Good for Humanity

Companies like SpaceX, AstroForge and Boom Supersonic may not be the best deal for investors looking for a return, but it's a great deal for humanity.

Jan 17, 2025

Done with Airpods

I used to love Airpods and thought they were the best product Apple made besides the iPhone. But now I'm not so sure.

A pair of Apple Airpods next to a Macbook.

Nov 5, 2024

Emulating my childhood with a Steam Deck

I think I've finally scratched the itch to play my childhood video games.

Steam Deck Device

Oct 21, 2024

Agility - The Edge Startups Have

Engineering agility is the most underrated advantage that startups have.

a startup

Oct 3, 2024

Why I love my old 4Runner

With cars getting ever more technologically advanced, I've never loved my dumb 4Runner more.

my beloved 4runner.

Feb 16, 2024

Success Takes Time

One piece of advice I would give to my younger self is success takes a long time.

Jul 27, 2023

Three Links - A Wikipedia Game

A wikipedia game inspired by cards against humanity

Nov 17, 2022

So how much do I owe in taxes?

I got five letters from the IRS about my 2020 taxes. And I still have no clue if I owe them taxes...

Oct 28, 2022

Building a better guestbook for my site.

Last year I built an old school style guestbook for my website. This year I built it again, taking in all the lessons learned to make it even better.

Oct 2, 2022

America Needs Better Zoning

The white picket fence may be in the American Dream, but the zoning policy behind it is destroying our cities and making us less healthy.

An American neighborhood

Sep 22, 2022

File Based Routing Needs to Stop (Being The Only Option)

Frameworks like Gatsby and NextJS use file-based routing for "simplicity", but they need to offer a programmatic routing method.

NextJS Logo

Jul 12, 2022

Configuring NetlifyCMS with JS instead of YAML

Wouldn't it be nice to have your NetlifyCMS configuration in JS rather than YAML? Here's how you can do that.

Jul 9, 2022

Migrating from Gatsby to NextJS

Instead of rebuilding my website this year, I migrated it from Gatsby to NextJS. Here's how that went.

Jan 27, 2022

Integrating Styled Components into Storybook

How to setup Storybook to work nicely with Styled Components custom theme.

Apr 14, 2021

Keeping your Javascript project up to date

A few tips and tricks to keeping dependencies in your JS project fresh

Mar 17, 2021

Fuzzy Git Branch Checkout

If you use JIRA at work then your git branches likely look like PROJ-12345-description. Here's a little script you can use to checkout these branches quicker

Feb 17, 2021

Building a Guest Book for my Site

I've always wanted to have an old school guestbook for my site. I finally built one using Netlify Functions and Github Gist.

Feb 10, 2021

Building SunnyGolovine.com - Part 3

With most of the site up, in this post I want to talk about landing pages and my blogging workflow

Feb 8, 2021

Building SunnyGolovine.com - Part 2

In my last post I talked about some of the decisions I made when building my site. In this post I'll talk about the architecture

Feb 7, 2021

Building SunnyGolovine.com - Part 1

I recently rebuilt my personal website. In this part I'll talk about some of the decisions I made.