Hi, I'm @jonniesweb.
I'm Jon Simpson, a software development professional living in Ottawa, Canada.
I'm passionate about super great tech, cycling, and DIY, with a little craft beer sprinkled in. I mainly blog about technology, software development, and engineering leadership, but my other hobbies tend to make appearances every once in a while.
In my professional life I work at Mantle, a startup disrupting the revenue operations space for SaaS companies. I have also spent six years at Shopify leading and managing teams in the CX (customer experience) space. Prior to that, I worked at TravelClick building their CRM and first-in-class loyalty programs for the hospitality industry.
Recent Posts
Give your agents everything
Git Worktrees: The Simplest Way to Parallelize Your Coding Agents
From Phone to E-Ink: How I Built My Perfect Reading Setup with Wallabag
To plan or yolo, and everything in between
Using Beads to supercharge my workflow
Takeaways from leaning into agentic coding
How I Inadvertently Failed Half a Computer Science Class
Discovering podcasts in 2006
Thirty one
Dogfood calculator
Just go build it!
Fixing WiFi for Fun and Profit
One year at Mantle
Using Codesandbox for coding interviews
Thirty
Gotchas with the HubSpot API
Plex hardware transcoding with a consumer GPU in a Dell server
How I installed and configured a consumer NVIDIA GPU in a Dell server for Plex hardware transcoding, including power, cooling, Docker, and NVENC.
Growing Teams with the SBI Model: A Framework for Effective Feedback
Twenty Eight
Twenty seven
Binge-worthy podcasts discovered during the pandemic
ZFS snapshots in action
ZFS takeaways
How to set up a local DNS server for your home network
Set up a local DNS server with Dnsmasq to give devices memorable names, manage your home network, and stop relying on IP addresses.