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The good parts of Docker without the terrible UI

TurboRepo is a big deal for the JS community because it addresses the monorepo problem head on, bringing 85% faster build speeds and great architecture/docs/marketing.

EDA tools like Datasette dramatically lower the cost of data analysis, with a surprisingly simple ELT contract - You handle the Extract phase, it handles the Load, and exposes a standard UI for you to do dynamic Transforms.

The default Transistor.fm website is kinda ugly. Here's how to customize your Transistor.fm website if you use Transistor. But also it's a simple guide to do clientside customizations of almost any website whose code you don't control.

My picks of best podcasts I found in 2021, across tech, business, and creator categories. I also pick up on best of the best from 2020.

A piece of advice I heard about marketing and community that I've repeated to founders ever since - Get Good at Events.

Simple grab and go upgrade to the base user agent stylesheet to make for readable sites

AWS is playing Chess. Cloudflare is playing Go.

How I broke out of the tiresome REST vs GraphQL debate - by realizing that the real battle is between Smart Clients and Smart Servers!

just some memories 20 years after 9/11.

Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator journey.

Relatively new Git features that actually have me excited

Improvements in DX in both programming languages and cloud infrastructure will eventually converge in a single paradigm, where you truly "just write business logic" and the platform mostly figures out the rest.

Usage billing is the new hotness for SaaS, and I have personally seen the pain it caused, but I was ultimately scared off from investing in it.

DevRel is hot but nobody knows how to measure it. That's because we don't agree on what effective DevRel *is*, and we don't agree on the tradeoffs of lagging vs leading metrics for a creative, unattributable, intimately human endeavor.

There is too much money chasing too few operators.

An excerpt from Becoming Steve Jobs that made me stop in my tracks.

Temporal ties Orchestration, Event Sourcing, and Workflows-as-Code in one distributed system and it is eating the world.

I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.

Learning is *BOTH* a discrete and a continuous process. If the tools we use don't respect this duality, information is lost — either writing involves too much effort, or reading requires too much context.

This post (together with the embedded talk) aims to give you a solid mental model on what each Activity timeout in Temporal does and when to use it.

Remember what life can do.

The conclusions are far more nuanced when you ask the people involved at the time.

My own content creation philosophy, explored through my own personal story with React

Celebrating following 100 episodes of my mixtape, and reflecting on why this works

Stripe has entered the No Code market in a big way! I take a crack at explaining what it's doing and why.

Automated code quality with GitHub Actions, Husky, Lint-staged, Prettier, and ESLint

This post originated as an AMA on IndieHackers I launched the Coding Career Handbook almost a year...

Lessons from React, GraphQL, and Rich Hickey on how to design software that doesn't implode the first time requirements change.

The Innovator's Dilemma according to MKBHD, applied to YouTube's attempt to clone TikTok