Programmer and founder of Bumpkin

I’m David Oliver, a full stack web applications developer and engineer based in Tulsa working for TriumphPay. I’m the founder of Bumpkin, where we (I) try to find PMF one of our (my) ideas (someday). Joking aside, I'm looking for freelance gigs on the side.

Migrating from React to PureScript & vanilla DOM

June 14, 2025

Front-end frameworks are just tools; they aren't a necessity for modern development, and there are lot of advantages to dropping them entirely.

Engineering well means gaining confidence in quality by any means available

May 14, 2025

Writing code is cheap, but getting it right is expensive. Every means of ensuring code correctness has significant drawbacks.

A skeptic's review of Cursor

May 1, 2025

While I have used coding assistants in the past, I understand that it's a rapidly evolving area with a lot of money being poured into it. A lot of proponents seem to like Cursor, so in this post I'm going to use it to explore a few typical scenarios where a coding assistant might be useful.

AI Coding assistants provide little value because a programmer's job is to think

April 26, 2025

Writing code is easy; getting it right is hard.

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Work

Company
TriumphPay / BravoTran / HubTran
Role
Senior Software Engineer
Date
2021 Present
Company
Waterfield Energy / W Energy Software
Role
Senior Applications Developer
Date
2017 2021
Company
AT&T - Web Applications Developer
Role
Web Applications Developer
Date
2015 2017
Company
Nutraspace
Role
Web Applications Developer
Date
2014 2015