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the full text of my State of JS writeup!

An insightful discussion on how to trade off aiming for viral or permanent posts.

Discussing the 2022 migration of swyx.io to SvelteKit and GitHub Issues

The case for having a -Public- Second Brain, and why I picked Obsidian.

As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to refactor with confidence.

Discussing the 2022 migration of swyx.io to SvelteKit and GitHub Issues

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…

The default Transistor.fm website is kinda ugly.

My picks of best podcasts I found in 2021, across tech, business, and creator categories.

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.

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…

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.

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.

Learning is BOTH a discrete and a continuous process.

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!

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

This post originated as an AMA on IndieHackers

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

A case study I published for my work at Temporal

Expertise in a subject often goes in a bell curve of simple → complex → simple.

Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.

Don't spend your life spraying 20% effort all over the place, hoping for 80% results, only to look back and wonder why you never hit 100% on anything.

a simple tutorial

I turn 35 today.

First we shape X, then X shapes us.

A simple way to normalize asking for help.

Letting my writing improve under the heat of feedback

Comparing the two popular custom dynamic content solutions!

Why we need more people creating Part Time and how you can do it too.

What if we just assumed we might have two of everything?

A recap of my first ever conference talk

What if the real product was the friends we made along the way?

Produce Consistency, Publish Quality by buffering.