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The most underrated part of Singapore that foreigners don't appreciate

My first time being a technical reviewer for a published book!

You can enhance the web by making wrappers around it.

Two ways to approach responsibility in a company.

Understanding new social media is a sociological exercise, not a logical one.

Many language ecosystems use try/catch paradigms to represent both errors and exceptions.

Every creator wrestles with the tradeoff between quality and consistency.

Don't play games you don't want to win.

A simple way to decide when and what to write.

What got you here won't get you there.

A tutorial on data scraping with AWS Amplify

The biggest unanswered question in the study of systems.

A review and reflection of Morgan Housel's bestselling collection of essays on personal/behavioral finance

A system for goalsetting.

Alex Lakatos interviewed me for the Devrel Advent calendar he put together

I was interviewed by Pete from No CS Degree on my journey, here are some extracts!

I was interviewed by Chris Bongers on Daily Dev Tips, here are some extracts.

Making personal side projects for fun and profit.

React Server Components are a nuanced, sweeping addition to React's existing capabilities.

With the Amplify Sandbox, it is really easy to model and think through any app backend scenario

My thoughts on preselling, from having done it successfully exactly one time.

Two opposing forces that describe how perception and reality do battle.

AWS just added the easiest way to deploy long running serverful code alongside a serverless architecture.

Why are so many CS pioneers from Denmark?

Developer Experience is shifting left, all the way to onKeyUp.

What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?

An update to my favorite podcasts list with the ones I have found this year

How we plan to fail with Thoughtful Error Message Design at Temporal.

Five themes I am optimistic about for the next decade - and more open questions I have no idea about.

The 'API Economy' is a popular term for VC's and tech media, however Developers seem ironically out of the loop despite their central importance to the whole story.

Our 9th transparency update describing how we are shipping the upcoming Authentication feature

Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't.

My Notes on Slobodan Stojanovic's Serverless GraphQL with AppSync talk

'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models.

Reflections from two-and-a bit years helping to run /r/Reactjs

Why we should stop trying to use the same tool for different jobs.

A demo using AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service) using Amplify Storage, Svelte, and Tailwind CSS

Notes on Randy Pausch's lecture on Time Management

Reflection on how both gyms and startups do choice architecture and how we can be more conscious of this

Before you start offering Software as a Service, perhaps just offer a Service.

Following up and following through is a well known formula for success.

Why I changed my mind on Tailwind CSS, and why I now consider it the Goldilocks Styling Solution

Many things that make sense individually don't make sense as a group.

5 Things I Learned about Node.js Fundamentals from the Node.js Design Patterns Book

A lightning fast overview of everything you need to know to set up a REST endpoint with full CRUD capability with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB and AWS Amplify in 2 minutes.

Notes from an a16z podcast about developer relations that I thought was valuable

This is the blog version of a talk I am giving at React Summit 2020

One of the greatest autobiographies by a business icon and great writer

Summarizing thoughts from Seth Godin and Cory Doctorow on Interoperability

I care a lot about creating Cool URIs so I have been paralyzed more than I should be about what I'm calling "URL Architecture".