$59 USD for a web-book/course as well as PDF and EPUB versions.
Uncluttered: free yourself from Node with import maps and test-driven web development is a web-based course or web-book that will guide you through test-driven web development using just the web browser, a web server, some HTML, and some JS modules that run natively in the browser without building.
Free yourself from Node with import maps and test-driven web development
$25 USD for twenty videos as well as PDF and EPUB versions of the text.
Yellow is an experiment.
In it, I use audio and video to outline some of the core principles that drive my work using casual and approachable language, even when I’m covering potentially complex topics such as Gall’s Law or loose coupling.
$35 USD for PDF and EPUB.
What are the major risks to avoid with generative AI? How do you avoid having it blow up in your face? Is that even possible?
The Intelligence Illusion is an exhaustively researched guide to the risks of language and diffusion models.
$35 USD for PDF and EPUB.
Software projects keep failing, not because we don’t have the right team or tools but because our software development system is broken. Out of the Software Crisis is a guide to fixing your software projects with systems-thinking making them more resilient to change and less likely to fail.
$10 USD for the ebook-only version, PDF and EPUB.
Yellow is a short ebook (around 90 pages).
In it, I outline some of the core principles that drive my work using casual and approachable language, even when I’m covering potentially complex topics such as Gall’s Law or loose coupling.
Hi, I’m Baldur Bjarnason, and I’m available for consulting and web dev work
I’ve been making websites for over twenty-five years, working as a web developer (front-end, back-end, or full-stack) for both companies and charities, small and large, in a variety of programming languages.
I’ve written two books, a course, and a video series on topics related to software development and have been writing about web development online for years.
My preference and primary expertise these days is concentrated on web languages: CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. My JS experience covers Node, Deno, and the Browser, both with frameworks or without.
Projects and code I’ve worked on are being used in production on a number of ecommerce and business sites across the world.
I strongly prefer non-framework solutions – not because I can’t but because standard JS is usually the most cost-effective and efficient approach for most web software projects.
You can find me online at Bluesky, Mastodon, this blog, or my newsletter.
Email me to see how I can help you.
Recent blog posts
- From ‘Yellow’: Gall’s Law
- On code smell and gut feeling
- Keep your browser fresh for dev, last day of the bundle offer, and links
- Launching a new course with a massively discounted Black Friday bundle
- The Ebook Bundle
- The Everything Bundle for $95
- Did you know that import maps can be rendered client-side? (And links)
- Web developers: remarkably untalented and careless?
- Notes, Links, and Weeknotes (6 November 2023)
- Notes, Links, and Weeknotes (3 November 2023)