Charlotte
Software engineer
from South Africa 🇿🇦
Bringing a teacher's curiosity to engineering, Geoffrey has evolved from ActionScript and teaching to being a product engineer, primarily focusing on the front-end (React/Next.js) while acknowledging the blurred lines of modern software engineering.
On the job, his passion lies in coaching, continuous learning, and product-first thinking, exploring technologies like Node.js and Python across the stack. While not on his day job, he values spending as little time on a screen as possible, enjoying nature through running, cycling, bikepacking, and adventures with the kids in his cargobike, as well as enduring the rollercoaster of owning a season ticket for a top-flight football team.
If you could go back in history what event would you love to experience?
I can think of a couple of iconic concerts: Sex Pistols in Manchester, Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Joy Division at The Factory, almost every concert at CBGB (Talking Heads, Television, DNA, and Mars). I would like to be able to see some bands and artists in their prime. I was born in the wrong decade :-).
We all love technology. But if you weren't working in it, what would you be doing?
I would open a record store, where I could spend my time listening to and talking about (obscure) music. A bit like the record store conversations in High Fidelity. Selling music wouldn't be a top priority.
Articles by Geoffrey
Giving a codebase a memory
Documentation rots, and what your product does ends up in a few developers' heads. So I stopped writing docs and started extracting them: small, typed, linked notes pulled from the codebase, written for product, with every claim traced back to the line it came from.
From template tag to hydrated component
A React island inside a Django page needs three things: a template tag that records rather than renders, one batched call to a render sidecar, and a browser that hydrates only the IDs the server named. Shared state then lives outside React, in a small store or the URL.
One screen doesn't need a rewrite
You don't need a front-end rewrite to make one screen feel like an app. A small render sidecar lets an existing back-end server render React components, hydrate only the islands that need to be interactive, and leave auth, the ORM, and your templates exactly where they are.
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