Hey, I'm Nick. 👋

I'm currently an Engineering Team Lead at Smartly.io. I write about a broad range of things that I learn and observe, and they seem to coalesce around topics like technology, living a meaningful life, and communicating well.

I publish new articles every Sunday. Subscribe for free occasional updates. I try to be helpful with each article I publish. If something you read helped you, please reach out and/or buy me a coffee.

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Recent articles

• 02 Jan 2022 - My 2021 Annual Review
• 23 Dec 2021 - Write quicker tests with console.assert and blocks
• 22 Dec 2021 - What the duck is Duck Typing?
• 21 Dec 2021 - How URL shorteners generate 3 trillion unique URLs with just 7 characters
• 20 Dec 2021 - Counting up in Binary
• 19 Dec 2021 - What is a cache? What is an example use case?
• 12 Dec 2021 - Choose friends like your foods
• 04 Dec 2021 - Labeling things properly in a digital garden
• 28 Nov 2021 - How to implement an LRU cache in JavaScript
• 19 Nov 2021 - Prioritise regularity over quality
• 14 Nov 2021 - Technical or not, the hardest part of blogging is still writing
• 07 Nov 2021 - Why I'm active on Instagram again
• 01 Nov 2021 - What I learned asking 120 people about my writing
• 24 Oct 2021 - Stop thanking me for what I ought to be doing as a father
• 17 Oct 2021 - Employment sweet spot
• 10 Oct 2021 - Specialist or Generalist?
• 03 Oct 2021 - 6 Things I’ve Learned from my Second Year Living in Berlin (away from Singapore)
• 26 Sep 2021 - The newborn bubble
• 19 Sep 2021 - Retreat
• 12 Sep 2021 - 9 Questions for 1-1s