Jamie Dumont

Software Developer

October 2024

Returning to software development

After two years away from software, it's time to come back

January 2022

The Last Straw

When a regular expression failed to work as expected I almost renounced software development entirely. Warning: this post contains a vent.

April 2018

A Caveat to 'Consumption Spirals'

Sometimes buying 'nice things' is the start of a dangerous spending spiral. Sometimes it's the start of a long and beautiful relationship full of love and care.

March 2018

Private Content with Statamic

How to protect content when building a membership site with Statamic, adding different membership 'tiers'.

One Percent Better

Regular, incremental improvements can deliver incredible advancements — if you let them! I examine how focusing on the little details can improve your software and business.

Analytics vs. User Surveys

Making analytics-lead changes brought us to a local maximum. Running a user survey helped me take the business to the next level.

Build a membership site with Statamic

How to build a basic membership site with Statamic 2 and the Charge add-on.

'Deep Work' by Cal Newport

'Deep Work' by Cal Newport is an easy addition to my 'never get rid of' collection of books.

February 2018

Wordpress to Statamic migration

A data migration is always a horrible task, but migrating Wordpress' tangled content to clean markdown and YAML was a real test.

September 2017

Going It Alone

After two years at Bikesoup, I'm leaving for pastures new. Here's what I intend to get up to.

July 2017

A More Sustainable iPhone

Is Apple shifting to more expensive devices that are more powerful, better made and last longer?

May 2017

Thoughts on Things' Pricing

Pricing software is hard — and the right decision seems obvious — but CulturedCode shows that a conventional approach can still work.

December 2016

Discovering Tachyons

Tachyons by Adam Morse was Tailwind's predecessor and introduced utility-first CSS to the world. Here's how I found it and slowly adopted the approach.

November 2016

Why I Axed My Serverless App

Building Javascript, single-page, serverless apps is about as convoluted as it gets. I killed mine before ever launching it.