Mike Bifulco

This week, I'm thinking about the lifecycle of moonshot companies.

Recently, I've been asking developers what they think of no-code tools.

## I publish a newsletter called Tiny Improvements [My little newsletter](https://mikebifulco.com/newsletter) is all about making small, incremental improvements to your work and home life, especially if you're building a product or company.

Hi there, I hope you're well.

## I publish a newsletter called Tiny Improvements [My little newsletter](https://mikebifulco.com/newsletter) is all about making small, incremental improvements to your work and home life.

_This article was written during my time at Stripe as a Deveoper Advocate, and was co-authored by my inimitable teammate, [Charlie Gerard](https://charliegerard.dev/)._ I do not speak for Stripe, and this article is not official company policy, etc. and so

Hey - stop keeping your work a secret.

The [Orton Effect](https://www.capturelandscapes.com/orton-effect-explained/) is a photography technique that involves taking two pictures of the same scene, one with a long exposure and one with a shorter exposure, and then combining them.

I live in a fast-growing city in the southeast US, where urban design and city planning are always a hot topic.

## SEO & analytics help grow site traffic Whether you're working on your own blog, a news site, or building a product, you _absolutely must_ care about your site's SEO.

## Semantic HTML makes your sites better Semantic HTML is important because it helps improve the accessibility of a web page and makes the code more readable.

Building a website using the Remix.run web app framework?

## Right then, that settles it.

## You’re building relationships with all of your customers… …whether you know it or not.

[APIs You Won't Hate](https://apisyouwonthate.com) is a resource for developers who want to learn how to build APIs that are secure, performant, and easy to use.

## Why you should link to headings in your articles You may have come across this pattern in articles and posts on sites you frequent - article headings (think ` `, ` `, ` `, ` `, ` `, and ` ` in html) will be be wrapped in links that point to themselves.

On my past few weekend Twitch streams ([twitch.tv/irreverentmike](https://www.twitch.tv/irreverentmike) by the way) I've been working on a browser-based guitar tuner, to make usre of silly domain name I bought a year or so ago, [guithub.org](https://guith…

Dependabot is a fantastically useful tool provided by GitHub to monitor security vulnerabilities in your project's dependencies.

One of the most famous ad campaigns in history is Yellow Tail wine's "Crazy Rooster" campaign.

**Note:** This is an update to my recent post, [How to make VS Code load faster with a little bit of housekeeping](https://mikebifulco.com/posts/make-vs-code-load-faster-by-removing-extensions).

As I write this post, I'm working through taking my second course on [Buildspace](https://buildspace.so/).

Recently, I've been getting back into live coding on the weekend.

## What does the Nullish Coalescing (`??

## What does .filter(Boolean) do on Arrays?

**🚨Update: 11-24-2021🚨** If you're looking to speed up VS Code and you're _also_ using a Mac with an Apple Silicon Chip (an M1, M1 Pro, or M1 Max), you should read this article first: **[Massively speed up VS Code loading time on Apple Silicon Macs in one…

import CenteredTextDemo from '../..

I recently finished reading _Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software_ by [Nadia Eghbal](https://nadiaeghbal.com/), thanks to a book club organized by [Chris Traganos](https://twitter.com/chris_trag) at [Stripe](https://press.…

## Earlier today, we had a problem at [Gymnasium](https://thegymnasium.com).

Put simply, [gitignore.io](https://gitignore.io) is a tool that is so profoundly helpful that I've _forgotten what life was like without it._ Its purpose is simple: for any project you're working on, it'll generate a valid [`.gitignore`](https://docs.gith…

As of _this very post,_ I've added support for [MDX](https://www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/mdx/plugins/) to my site.

This morning, I fully switched my personal site from Google Analytics to [Fathom](https://usefathom.com/) - something that I had been considering for a while, and finally decided to go all in on.

**Note:** This post came from my work on [Surviving Other People's APIs](https://leanpub.com/surviving-other-peoples-web-apis).

On my walk this morning, I found myself wondering what it's going to be like when things go back to normal.

Hey there - I’m [Mike Bifulco](https://twitter.com/irreverentmike).

## An (extremely brief) history If you follow me across the various other social networks I use, you'll likely stumble across my passion for cycling.

_Note: I updated some names and links in this post.

**Update (2021, pt.2): Do you want to know how to run Dependabot locally?

I often joke that to learn about design is to doom yourself to be lightly annoyed by everything.

This is a follow-up to my [first post](https://mikebifulco.com/posts/solve-all-your-problems-with-promise-allsettled) on the upcoming `Promise.allSettled()` function, coming soon to a node application near you.

Note: this is a follow-up to my [first post](https://mikebifulco.com/posts/deconfusing-javascript-destructuring-syntax) on destructuring.

(Note: This post was inspired by a talk from [Wes Bos](https://twitter.com/wesbos) at JAMstack_conf_nyc.

## I really don't like my laptop.

## We did it!

(note: the header photo from this article is from [Dakota Roos](https://unsplash.com/photos/dSRhwPe6v9c?

# The Problem Earlier tonight, my Macbook Pro decided it was done having disk space, and in the middle of a Time Machine backup, it started gnawing through every last bit of free space I had left.

I wish I could do as much as I can to spare you the pain of hearing about the horrible shooting that happened in New Zealand last week.

# Dashlane First thing's first - get yourself a good password manager.

It's one of those things.

[Prettier](https://prettier.io/) is "an opinionated code formatter", built to fit into your developer workflow.

### This is happening.