Andrew Shell

Today is the 30th anniversary of Dave Winer's blog, Scripting News.

I've been programming in one form or another for as long as I can remember. Since my family got its first computer when I was five, I couldn't have programmed much before that. However, I knew DOS well enough to help teachers with their computers in first and second grade, so I...

In 2018, I built a time-tracking demo in React for a job I was applying for.

Have you ever felt like no matter what you do, the scale just won’t budge? This might be because you're focusing on the wrong type of metric.

Many have told us that to achieve our goals, we should focus more on building effective systems rather than setting specific objectives. But this advice skips a crucial first step: setting goals is essential because it guides how we create those systems. Let's look closer at why...

The first question I had while reading the ActivityPub specification was, "How do I find the different feeds and documents defined by the spec?"

I define a project as something I do with an outcome I want. The problem is when I keep starting projects, then one day, I realize I have created dozens of projects. Every week the list grows longer.

Today I created my first NFT. I'm not really sure how useful it is, but what the heck.

Today is the last day of my Ship 30 for 30 cohort.

Early in my career, I worked for an SEO company. I was pretty low on the totem pole but had a lot of chutzpah.