H5BP As an Open Source Incubator

I’m looking at the future of the HTML5 Boilerplate (H5BP) organization and repos right now and, in addition to formulating plans for the existing projects, I’ve decided to try something new. Maintenance of the existing projects is vital, but passive stewardship isn’t enough for where I’m at right now. The web changes too quickly. AI […]

The Mastra Poisoning and the Yin/Yang of Ecosystem Velocity

The modern JavaScript ecosystem is incredible. If you need a utility, library or framework for anything it’s probably out there in the npm registry. Things that used to take us a week are now available as a simple `npm install.` But last week, the ecosystem reminded us of the exact tax we pay for that […]

Alternative Assets, Open Source Infrastructure and Data Standards

For the past few years, a big portion of my professional energy has been focused on managing scale, overseeing engineering teams, and navigating corporate technology strategy in private equity and traditional asset management. Global finance! It was challenging work, but it pulled me away from a fundamental truth: I am a builder who loves to […]

Why Tooling Performance is No Longer a “JavaScript” Problem. Let’s Go?

In general, the JavaScript ecosystem has operated under a simple rule: web development tools should be written in web development languages. Since we could (thanks Node,etc.) we should! I remember when this started and it’s been fun, of occasionally frustrating as we inevitably ran into performance issues as JavaScript codebases got larger and larger and […]