A professional full stack software engineering blog.

Chris is in the holiday spirit!

Detailed full stack software tutorials, walk-throughs, and more: battle-tested and directly from the front lines of industrial, startup, and SaaS product full stack software development. Learn techniques, patterns, and code that I've used on my dozen+ products I've built in my 10+ year software career.

Most Recent Post:

Goals for 2026

December 12, 2025

2025 in Review What a year, what a year, what a year... In short, it was an insanely successful and productive year: Various pieces of my…

Other Recent Posts:

Fun with MCP - an "O RLY?" Book Generator MCP Tool

July 12, 2025

Perfect to use at almost any moment in a software engineer's life, this tool generates "O RLY?" books from just a simple query.

AI Fun LLMs MCP Python

Two of My Favorite Custom MCP Tools I Use Every Day

May 11, 2025

A step-by-step guide to creating 'list_repo_locations' and 'issue_terminal_command' tools that unlock fully agentic workflows with Claude Desktop.

AI Claude LLMs MCP

How To Manage Multiple Environments with MCP

May 10, 2025

A simple but effective solution for juggling multiple environments with MCP servers.

AI Claude LLMs MCP

🎂 I've Been Building Software for 13 Years. Here's 13 Bits of Wisdom Observed During My Career

April 14, 2025

Heavily influenced by recency bias of AI and LLMs, here are 13 bits of wisdom, some positive, and some negative, of software-related topics I hope I can impart to anyone in the software world willing to read it.

AI Career Life Machine Learning SaaS Software

My Newest SaaS Product: CodeVideo

March 14, 2025

Launching CodeVideo after over two years in the making: this is the story of a domain exploration that kept growing… and growing… and growing!

Codevideo Ffmpeg Gatsby Golang Netlify Puppeteer React SaaS

Popular Posts:

A Keyboard Avoiding View for React Native in 2021

September 22, 2021

A Copy-and-Paste Solution that Supports all iOS and Android keyboards!

React React Hook React Native TypeScript UI/UX

Back By Popular Demand: React + Redux + Shopify + TypeScript Boilerplate

July 21, 2020

Now with TypeScript: Strongly typed E-commerce for all!

React Redux Shopify TypeScript

C# .NET Core and TypeScript: Using Generics and LINQ to Secure and Filter Operations on Your JSONPatchDocuments

November 23, 2020

Full stack: React with TypeScript frontend, .NET backend!

C#.NET TypeScript

Let's Build a Snazzy Animated Sticky Footer For GDPR Compliance!

April 19, 2021

Leveraging react-reveal, react-cookie, and Bootstrap styles.

Bootstrap Gatsby React TypeScript

The Last Bitbucket Pipelines Tutorial You'll Ever Need: Mastering CI and CD

February 1, 2021

An incredibly powerful tool that saves time, headaches, and much more!

Automation Bitbucket Pipelines CI/CD

Welp, I Did It. I Quit.

July 25, 2018

Thoughts of yet another full-time worker going full-time freelance / tinkerer / creative / nomad. ***Note: this post is mirrored on Medium…

View All Posts

Post Series:

Clean React TypeScript Hooks

Clean CRUD APIs

Things I'm Working On / In:

C#Gatsby Golang React Rust TypeScript WPF

Posts By Tag:

ABAP AGI AI Algorithms Apache API APIs Applications Auth0 Automation Bash Bitbucket Pipelines Bitcoin Blazor Blog Meta Books Bootstrap Burnout C#Career CI/CD Claude Clean CRUD APIs Clean React TypeScript Hooks Cloud Cloud Architecture Code Organization Codevideo Companies Crypto Data Data Challenge Development DevOps Docker Enums Environment Expo Ffmpeg Fun Functional Programming Gatsby Generics Github GitHub Golang Google Cloud Platform gRPC Hackathon Hacktoberfest Integration Tests JavaScript Jest Kestrel Kubernetes LaTeX Learning Series Life LLMs Mac Machine Learning Magento Markets MCP Microservices Miscellaneous .NET Netlify NGINX NLP Node Npm Object Oriented Programming Object-Relational Mapping Open Source OpenUI5 Package Pandoc Postgres PostgreSQL Products Puppeteer Python RAG React React Hook React Hooks React Native Redux Redux Toolkit Reflection SaaS Saas SAP SAPUI5 Server Side Rendering Serverless Shell Script Shopify Singularity Slack Software Software Graveyard Startup Stripe Substack Supabase Sustainability System Design Tampermonkey TDD Testing TypeScript TypeScript Generics UI/UX Unit Tests Utils VM Webhook Webpack WebSockets Windows WPF Writing Yearly Goals Zapier

You made it all the way down here?! Well then, please enjoy these three ducks:

   _
__(.)=
\___)

   _
__(.)<
\___)

   _
__(.)<
\___)