Paul Armstrong is an experienced software engineer focused on Node.js, JavaScript, and modern web development. He builds and maintains popular open-source tools for React, performance benchmarking, and scalable user interfaces.
31 articles from this blog
A template for creating structured technical design documents to record decisions, scope, and solutions for software projects.
A technical guide on setting up a Firebase project, Parcel bundler, and Tailwind CSS for building a modern wedding website with Preact.
A developer shares their experience migrating a personal blog from Docusaurus to Astro, highlighting the ease of customization and static site generation.
A developer details building a custom, open-source photobooth application using web technologies for their wedding to save costs.
A guide to automatically wrapping Express.js middleware to enforce request timeouts, eliminating the need for manual checks in each middleware.
A developer's technical evaluation of Firebase and AWS Amplify for building a wedding website with custom domain, auth, and email features.
A developer resigns from the AMP Technical Steering Committee, citing concerns over Google's control and the project's failure to diversify and uphold web standards.
A developer reflects on the burnout and challenges of maintaining an open source project, leading to its eventual abandonment.
Explains how to safely generate HTML responses in Express.js without a templating engine, focusing on preventing XSS attacks.
Essential Git helper functions for automating common tasks like switching to main, rebasing, and cleaning up branches.
How Twitter Lite, a large-scale React PWA, achieved high performance by tackling bottlenecks like code splitting, rendering, and image loading.
