Hi, I'm Jacob.
Full Stack Software Engineer building UI's and enabling product teams through design & developer tools.
Minneapolis, USA | UTC -5hrs
Product Engineer @ Stylitics
Writing
Losing Faith in Bun
Over the past year, like many JavaScript developers, I have fallen in love with Bun. However, recent choices made by the Bun team have started to taint these feelings.
Implementing Preview Deploys via Github Actions
Lately over on tech twitter, there's been quite a bit of talk around Platform as a Service (PaaS) infrastructure providers like Vercel and Netlify. Today I'll show you how to implement one of their most killer features, on your own cloud infra: preview deploys.
Monitoring Errors in Third-Party JavaScript Applications
Over the past 9 months I've been designing, building, and iterating an error monitoring system for the suite of Third-Party JavaScript widgets I contribute to at my day job. I recently re-designed the client portion of this system and wanted to walk through the solution we ended up with.