Why feature branches fight best practices—and how stacked, reviewable patches enable continuous integration, better reviews, and cleaner Git history.

Notes on how I hosted my Git Repositories and why I decided to do it.

An exploration of thoughts I had while taking a shower on 2026-01-01.

My attempt at producing the ultimate guide to creating Git commits that I wish I had when I was a less experienced developer.

This is a post exploring the "Don't rewrite shared history" rule that people often religiously follow without understanding the impacts or alternates.

A walk through of a portion of a code review I gave recently on code organization.

A deep dive about the 7.0.0 release of Git Patch Stack and how it differs from previous versions.

An exploration of the goals and intent behind the Git Patch Stack project.

An exploration of the Feature Branch, Classic Continuous Integration, Stacked Branch, and the Patch Stack workflows.

Part 3 of A Design Exploration of building a Backend Web Framework using only functions, strong typing via TypeScript and requiring everything be easily testable

Part 2 of A Design Exploration of building a Backend Web Framework using only functions, strong typing via TypeScript and requiring everything be easily testable

Part 1 of A Design Exploration of building a Backend Web Framework using only functions, strong typing via TypeScript and requiring everything be easily testable

A walk through in how to Add a Patch in Git Patch Stack

How I created a SwiftUI Micro Framework to make Button Styling composable

A breakdown of how I think about Codebase Organization

Announcement about Pullwalla iOS new Pull Request Diffs view and have we are now in the state of being a full blown pull request management tool.

An explanation of what to do when git add -p won't let you split hunks.

A walk through in how to split a git commit into multiple commits.

A deep dive into the zsh startup configuration process and diagram.

Announcing the official release of Git Changelog v3.3.2. This includes a deep dive on whats new and what has changed in this release.

Announcing the official release of Git Patch Stack v0.5.0. This includes a deep dive on whats new and what has changed in this release.

Announcement about numerous Pullwalla releases and support for macOS Big Sur.

Introduction to git-cl, a tool we built to facilitate managing CHANGELOG.md files without conflicts.

Announcement about numerous Pullwalla releases and significant changes made in them.

Announcing the official release of Constraid v7.1.0. Proxy pattern based convenience API to streamline things.

Announcement about Pullwalla 2.0 being released and details about the refresh.

Announcing the official release of Constraid v7.0.0. Now with Swift Package Manager support.

Announcing the official release of Constraid v6.0.0. This includes a deep dive on whats new and what has changed in this release.

How I created a Failable Decodable in Swift using Result type to enable partial decoding of JSON collections.

Announcement about Pra v1.4.0 being released and what was included and why.

Announcement about Pra v1.3.0 being released and what was included and why.

A look at our failed App Store launch and where it took us

Hot tip on programmatically creating macOS SideBar in Swift

A look at where I currently am with Pra

Dive into Exploration I took pondering about the different ways I could have Pra make money.

Exploration of problems around pull requests, a proof of concept of a possible direction, and discovery of demand and interest in solutions in this space.

Real world example of how we decide how to size and optimize images for use in an iOS application.

Adding links inline with text in your iOS app

A brief look at the how and why we chose to build what we did.

Git Commits and Tags are great on their own, except they don't really guarantee identity unless you sign them.

Daily stand-up meetings are great, but hard when some (or all) of your team works remotely. At UpTech we rely on Slack to hold virtual standups.

A screencast introducing the basics of RSpec

A real introduction and demonstration of applying Cucumber.

Beginnings of looking at Git trees and the core components.

A quick tutorial & example of building a SegmentedViewController in iOS

Explanation of how I managed to successfully shrink Vagrant Linux boxes

RVM Installed Ruby (SSL certificate verify failed)

Breakdown of some recent updates to Sublime Guard

An exploration through some of the hiccups I ran into when upgrading to MacOS Mountain Lion.

Breakdown of some recent updates to Sublime Guard

Introduction to a new Ruby on Rails gem I built for tagging

A quick update on OctopusCI

A quick update on my Sublime Text 2 Guard Plugin

An introduction to my zsh setup

Intro to my VIM Setup and how I manage it.

Some more updates on progress with my SublimeText2 Guard Plugin

Announcement and introduction to Color support in Sublime Text 2 Guard Plugin.

Introduction to Archaic - an archived chats and dev helper tool that I built

Just sharing some learnings about the friendly_id plugin.

A little diagram I whipped up to help express Ruby Class vs. Insance

A small exploration into discovering and recovering forgotten/abandoned commits.

A quick intro to a jQuery Comparative Histogram Plugin I created

A small screencast introducing a TextMate bundle I created for Autotools