Five years ago (to the day!) I published the first version of KeystoneJS to npm. Today, I’m proud and excited to officially release the long awaited version 4.0.0! No more beta tag for you :) We couldn’t have done this without our amazing community — with over 200 contributors, 2000…

… and this is what I learned about myself, and open source, along the way. I was always planning to write a post when I broke my contribution streak. My first child (a beautiful baby girl we named Grace) was born five weeks ago, and I honestly didn’t think my…

Or, the importance of being good to each other. Before we begin… It’s a new year and I’m going to open with a bit of a personal “2015 retrospective” to frame these thoughts. You’ve been warned. 2015 was a huge year for me, and also I think the whole JavaScript community that I…

An open letter to @SlackHQ — I ❤ Slack Before I get to the point, let me say I love Slack, and have been on board since pretty much the start. I’m not sure how many thousand companies starting using it before Thinkmill, but I am fairly sure it wasn’t too many. Something about the design, usability, speed and…

The last question I need answered before getting on board with the craziest “all-in” JavaScript movement I’ve seen yet. I was at ReactEurope last week, and thoroughly enjoyed Michael Chan’s talk on how and when to use inline styles in components, and when to use css. If you haven’t seen…

I’m crediting Mark Dalgleish for this one, but I want to make the case because it’s the best alternative I’ve heard to “Isomorphic Javascript”. Read on to learn why. Quick background The web development community has been in love forever with the idea of writing code that can be shared across the…

If you want to do something, do it every day. This is the story of my first year writing open-source software. Today marks one year of my GitHub streak, and coincidentally the first birthday of my company Thinkmill. It’s also, roughly, a year since I released the first prototype of…