
Hi, I’m Payton!
I’m a passionate coder by day and an enthusiastic tabletop dungeon master by night.
This blog is a place for me to tell stories and share fun things I’ve made. I write about insights from my coding projects, philosophical thoughts, and tales from epic D&D campaigns. Whether you’re a fellow developer, someone looking for a one-shot game, or a good friend, I’m excited to share my knowledge and adventures with you.
Here’s some of my latest posts
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Good coding practices
I recently had to give a talk on “Good coding practices” for some new developers at Automattic. At first I had no idea how to…
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Writing a diff/PR description to get better reviews
During a recent work meetup, we had an impromptu exercise where we went over what makes a GitHub PR description most useful to the people…
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Valley of the Machines
I wrote this one-shot D&D adventure to share with my co-workers on a recent work meetup; it was the first in several years! I now…
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Common TypeScript errors and how to fix them
At work we recently changed the builds for our project to fail when new TypeScript errors are added, so I took some time to clean…



