4 easy things you can do to make your website less Bootstrap-ey

November 27th 2014 - Aaron Larner - web-development

I'm going to give it to you straight people of the internet. I'm sick and tired of seeing Bootstrap everywhere I look. read more

Connecting the Design Community

April 30th 2015 - Aaron Larner - web-development

Back when Abby and I started 900dpi we had a few worries, the biggest of which was that building things for designers seemed really hard. Not just because they have high standards for the tools they use, but because their community is very fragmented. This means that even if you have a great product, it's really hard to let everyone know about it. read more

Developer tools are killing my buzz

October 1st 2014 - Aaron Larner - web-development

You know that amazing feeling that you get when starting a new development project? Code that doesn't smell. No technical debt. A clean architecture that hasn't seen battle with changing requirements. Lately that sweet, relaxing feeling has been dulled on my new projects. read more

Zero Downtime Deploys on Node with AWS

September 21st 2014 - Aaron Larner - web-development

A year ago I decided to switch my main back-end language from PHP to Node and so far I've been mostly happy with that decision. There are a ton of advantages of using Node over PHP, but in this post I'm going to talk about one of the really annoying disadvantages. read more

Documentation-First Design

March 11th 2015 - Aaron Larner - web-development

Great frameworks are not defined by fancy algorithms, optimal performance, big communities, or even good test coverage *gasp!* read more

Why my Node journey lead me to Perk

July 22nd 2016 - Aaron Larner - web-development

Four years ago I started my journey to learn Node. I started where most Node developers start, with Express, the most popular and oldest Node framework. Back in 2012 Express was still young, and from my perspective frustratingly immature. It lacked a lot of the features that I had come to expect from frameworks in other web development languages. read more

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This is an experiment to help me get better at writing. That said, I'm only planning on writing about things that I'm interested in, so if you want to talk to me about a topic that you see on here please feel free to reach out (, , ). I'm currently working on Perk and Internal Tools at Trello.