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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