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I found my grail keyboard.

I recently bought a Kenesis mWave keyboard and it might be my favorite keyboard yet.

Need Help? Go Slack Yourself!

Rubber duck debugging in 2025.

Getting TailwindCSS to play nice in monorepos.

How to configure Tailwind so you can import components from other packages

Why I bought a 5 year old laptop.

I've had great luck over the years buying used laptops but this most recent purchase is my most audacious yet.

Keeping your Javascript Project Updated - 2025 Edition

How to keep your Javascript (or Typescript) project up to date - the 2025 edition.

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.

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.

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.

Emulating my childhood with a Steam Deck

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

Agility - The Edge Startups Have

Engineering agility is the most underrated advantage that startups have.

Why I love my old 4Runner

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

Success Takes Time

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

Three Links - A Wikipedia Game

A wikipedia game inspired by cards against humanity

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

Migrating from Gatsby to NextJS

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

Integrating Styled Components into Storybook

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

Keeping your Javascript project up to date

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

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

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.

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

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

Building SunnyGolovine.com - Part 1

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

Build a Chrome Extension using ReactJS and Webpack - Part 1

Browser bookmarks suck, so I built an extension to make them suck less

Bootstrapping a React Native Application with react-native init With Android Studio

VSCode debugging with custom Jest configurations

Personal Websites - Keep it Simple

A USB-C World

Build a powerful laptop for development on the cheap