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Hey, I’m Nick, CTO at a startup called Wakelet. I love systems and infrastructure, but I enjoy learning about everything Web. Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with my wife and two young daughters, producing electronic music, and playing video games.

Latest Posts

5 June, 2025

I've Soured on Go

Why I don't think Go is the future.

18 May, 2025

Hypermedia in the Age of AI

In which I make the case for hypermedia for LLMs.

9 May, 2025

Serverless Straight to S3 Uploads

A 'fun' technique for emulating some of the functionality of Cloudflare Workers

21 March, 2025

Running Planetscale's Serverless Driver Locally

Some example code for using a local MySQL instance with planetscale's serverless driver

12 Jan, 2025

The books I read in 2024

A retrospective and mini-review of the fiction and non-fiction I read last year.

25 Nov, 2024

I made the mistake of trying to write a test

My odyssey to get a single unit test passing with Durable Objects.

4 Oct, 2024

Another hack for durable objects and Astro

Working around various wrangler limitations. Is the DX better? I can't tell.

2 Oct, 2024

A hack for durable objects and Astro

I wanted to use Durable Objects with the new Workers Assets Astro integration...

27 July, 2024

I have mixed feelings about LLMs

In which I explore my complicated relationship with generative AI

31 May, 2024

Solid Start inside a Durable Object.

Running Solid Start inside a durable object was fairly simple thanks to the pluggable architecture.

6 April, 2024

Tailwind is not always optimal. And that's okay!

Weighing in on the Tailwind 'discourse'.

19 March, 2024

This blog is open source!

Plus some fiddly things about deploying Remix to Cloudflare Pages.

18 March, 2024

9 Lessons from 9 Years of Serverless

Serverless is great, and it keeps getting better. Here, I share some tips and tricks that I've learned over the years.

More posts coming soon!