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François Wouts

The developer happiness engineer

I write about software engineering and developer productivity.

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Articles

Detecting UI components with TypeScript Compiler API
April 2022
One year of Preview.js, aka React Preview
April 2022
JSON over POST: A simple alternative to REST, gRPC and GraphQL
February 2022
Evaluating technical debt's interest rate
December 2021
A different view of TypeScript's type system
January 2020
The journey of building React Screenshot test
December 2019
Thinking inside the box
September 2019
What does a great software engineer look like?
February 2019
The inefficiency of storing code as text
August 2018
How to network
June 2018
Project: OpenAPI definition generator
June 2018
How could we fix programming?
April 2018
Modular code is the priority
April 2018
Choosing the right technology for your mobile app
January 2018
Learning to fail — a startup diary
December 2017
Answering the question: “What programming language do you write?”
September 2017
How yoga helped me become a better programmer
September 2017
Parsing JavaScript in JavaScript
August 2017
Productivity tips for procrastinators who work from home
May 2017
Parsing your own language with ANTLR4
April 2017