Roughly half of this story first appeared on the preface to my first book, JavaScript Application Design, but I’ve always felt that the story also belonged on …

With almost 3000 commits on record, I’m pretty sure that Pony Foo is one of the most, if not the most, over-engineered blogs ever. This article goes over how it all began as a learning experience…

I’ve been experimenting with elasticsearch – and working at the company behind it for a while – so it only made sense to incorporate it as Pony Foo’s search provider.

I got married last friday, and then we threw a party on saturday.

I wanted to extend the celebration a little bit longer by sharing a few pictures on my blog.

There’s a few different ways you can subscribe to read Pony Foo. What’s your favorite?

Almost since day one you could follow Pony Foo using the RSS feed. …

Pony Foo’s design remained largely the same throughout its history so far, as I never really spent a lot of time on its design. Today I’m thrilled to …

In this article I’ll analyze the past and present of UX in Pony Foo. In doing so, we’ll go over the features that were introduced to improve the lives of …

This article aims to cover the performance gains I’ve attained in the redesign of Pony Foo, deployed last week to production. I’ll be covering a few …

In the past I’ve wrote about a small alternative to async, named contra, which is barely over 2kb, and has the browser at its heart. It comes with the usual …

A week ago I wrote about a few goals I’ve set for myself in 2014. In particular, I alluded to writing code that’s more modular than what I’ve been writing so far:

Client-side asset management reveals a series of issues with Node.JS and npm today:

• Node.JS is just a few years old (it was born in 2009)
• Some areas, such as client-side …

In my previous installment, I prognosticated the discussion topic for this post.

In the next post I’ll delve into MongoDB, how to pair it with Node, and figuring …

A few days passed, a couple lessons learned. I promised myself not to spend too much time trying to make something perfect, but rather keep a lean approach and moving …

As I start writing this post, I set out with a purpose. To write a micro-blogging engine. The language of choice is Node.JS. I chose this language because I want to see …