Hey! I'm Max.

I'm a software developer based in Canada, working on storefronts at Shopify. I care about empowering engineering teams and building software that respects people. Areas of interest include digital well-being, privacy, and sustainability.

I'm active on Mastodon and Twitter — direct messages are open!

Blog posts

Monitoring a grain dryer via the Internet (2020-11-08)

Agriculture meets static IPs and cellular APNs.

Turning my smartphone into a boring tool (2020-11-03)

Tools do their job then get out of the way.

Automatically labeling GitHub notification emails with Gmail filters (2020-10-15)

Cut through the noise and identify what's important.

How Shopify reduced storefront response times with a rewrite (2020-09-03)

Making server response times 4x faster than before.

Two Ruby apps, same code, different output (2020-08-13)

Debugging a weird Ruby string sorting issue with GDB.

Three hours of Swift (2020-08-09)

What I learned during my initial exploration of iOS development.

Accelerating software onboarding with code walkthroughs (2020-07-28)

Welcoming newcomers with high-quality, high-context code comments.

I wrote 17 more posts. This blog is also available as RSS and JSON feeds.

Podcast appearances

The Changelog, episode 416 (2020-10-16)

A conversation about Shopify's massive storefront rewrite with Adam and Jerod.

Randomly Typed, episode 26 (2020-03-21)

Chatting with my friend Jean-Samuel about dial-up modems.

Side projects

Digital garden Jekyll template (2020-05-19)

A Jekyll template to start your own digital garden.

Freshreader (2020-03-14)

Read-it-later service with a twist: saved content disappears after 7 days.

Trace (2018-02-01)

Supply chain transparency platform PoC based on the Ethereum blockchain.

JSON Feed Viewer (2017-05-01)

The world's first JSON feed viewer, as seen on Daring Fireball.