Gaia Online

(6 min read) Web apps are heavy, and wait times suck. For every interaction you build, there's that much more code being added to the project.

(7 min read) Belonging makes you an evangelist. An exploration into what makes users passionate and how Maslow and Nevis fit into the idea of how social belonging feeds this loop.

(2 min read) For the legacy code around Gaia, we have forms with more than one possible "submit" for an action. The most common case of this is preview and submit buttons we traditionally use in the forums.

(4 min read) Behind the scenes of the Bank Transaction Manager at Gaia, responsible for escrowing items between accounts on different MySQL shards.

(8 min read) Sagas before we really had the right word for it.