Hey. My name is
Isaac
and I write
Apps
Book
Articles
Documents: The architect's programming language Stack Overflow Blog, 2025 How software architects can use documentation to lead and influence others more effectively.
Navigating cities of code with Norris Numbers Stack Overflow Blog, 2024 Codebases of different sizes, what makes them fundamentally different, and how to maintain them.
Comparing frameworks for cross-platform apps: Flutter vs. React Native Stack Overflow Blog, 2022 Comparison of Flutter and React Native based on my experience building the same app from scratch in both frameworks.
How to interrogate unfamiliar code Stack Overflow Blog, 2022 Techniques for understanding difficult pieces of code.
C#: IEnumerable, yield return, and lazy evaluation Stack Overflow Blog, 2022 Introduction to IEnumerable, the common interface for iteration in C#.
Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and empathetic programmers Stack Overflow Blog, 2021 Causes and effects of high-quality code in technology orgs.
Can developer productivity be measured? Stack Overflow Blog, 2020 Defining and measuring productivity on engineering teams.
Open source
JS Powered Search Maintainer A VS Code extension for fast, powerful, programmatic, repeatable codebase searches. VS Code API, TypeScript Compiler, Mocha, Sinon.JS
Novel Word Count Maintainer An Obsidian knowledge base plugin that displays a word count, page count, or other statistic for each file, folder and vault in the File Explorer. Obsidian Developer API, TypeScript
Cashmere Contributor, 2018–23 An Angular component library and living style guide for Health Catalyst software products. Angular, SASS, Webpack
Viano Maintainer A code toy that lets you write songs using Vue components. Web Audio API, Vue, SASS
JSON Measuring Tape Maintainer An in-browser tool that displays an expandable tree of any JSON object with the size of each property and its percent share of the entire object. Vue, JSON
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