Wilcox Development Solutions Blog

An Architecture Notebook Sometimes changes in a codebase are straight forward, sometimes they require a bit of research and investigation…

The quest for request makers As a backend developer I’m often looking to make some one-off requests to test new API endpoints, or to explore…

Rash and Unix Exit Codes I continue to play with Rash as a language for small shell scripts I know I’ll have to enhance over time. Through…

GToolkit provides AST analysis tools for Javascript & others! Let’s see how much we really use a dependency! The problem with any package…

A long while ago I - Ryan Wilcox - wrote an article for Toptal on Behavior Driven Development (or BDD). I’ve learned a lot in the years…

The term “software artifact” is often seen as being about only the runnable bits of a program: what’s the steps to getting ideas to bits…

Intro In a long standing blog patterns start to emerge. I’m interested in what I call ”Systems Level Programming“. By “Systems Level…

My Personal History with Early Blogging Tools: From Jan 15, 2002 until Feb 18, 2009 I kept a personal blog with Radio Userland. Radio…

DuckDB Explorations: Approaching data persistence in exploratory situations In software, I believe exploration and experimentation means a…

Leading Technical Change across the Herd. Software has evolved from a team activity to teams activity: multiple teams, each with their own…