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All links from 2023
- Sorting: Oldest links first
- Year: 2023
January 2023
- medium.com
Så kan AI göra reporterns jobb bättre
Här kommer ett konkret exempel på hur AI gör innehållet mer tillgängligt och sju andra idéer där det kan hjälpa oss.
- theverge.com
Bring back personal blogging
This is your creation. It’s your expression. It should reflect you. Bring back personal blogging in 2023. We, as a web community, will be all that much better for it.
- github.com
wretch: A tiny wrapper built around fetch with an intuitive syntax
wretch is a small wrapper around fetch designed to simplify the way to perform network requests and handle responses.
- avrio.com
Avrio | Where teams analyze and share customer research
Turn your unstructured customer research recordings into actionable findings in minutes with automatic transcription, question detection, shareable highlights, and customizable tagging.
- superface.ai
Automate npm publishing with GitHub Actions, proper changelog, and release notes
The following steps will guide you through the setup of automated npm package releasing
- goodtechthings.com
Every Cloud Architecture
Containers!!! Look at all these containers
- uxuncensored.medium.com
Heuristics — Going Back to the Future
Best practices, Common conventions, Proven principles, and Reliable standards. I’ve spoken on this topic in the past, referring to it as "the holy grail of UX," the "UXers super power," and the first resource out of any UXers toolbox.
- shorts.stackingthebricks.com
Maybe the best antidote for fear is fun
Can you just... try something and see what happens? The way a curious kid does. Just mash some stuff together and watch it play out. A fun experiment, rather than a fraught Very Important Decision on which rests the rest of your future.
- inma.org
Here’s what happens when ChatGPT analyses the New York Times’ landing page
Prompting AI tools to produce quality marketing assets is a new skill combining art and science. Here are some examples:
- fastcompany.com
Was this written by a robot? These tools help detect AI-generated text
Engineers have started to develop new ways to detect whether text has been written by ChatGPT or another AI text generator. Here are three detection tools you (or your college professor, or your boss, or your editor) can use right now (or very soon).
- digiday.com
The Atlantic introduces dynamic paywall with varying prices as it hopes to attract 1 million subscribers
The Atlantic’s model also means the paywall can be shown to readers who are more likely to subscribe (and not so often for those unlikely to open their wallets), as opposed to its previous metered paywall which readers hit after a few articles, regardless of who they are.
- whatsnewinpublishing.com
Nieman Lab’s predictions for 2023: Our top picks | What’s New in Publishing
2023 as the year where news product teams are no longer a trend and become an essential function in publisher’s organisations. This intensified product focus will lead to a world of change in news product approaches in 2023.
- charity.wtf
Friday Deploy Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies
Anxiety related to deploys is the single largest source of technical debt in many, many orgs. Technical debt, lest we forget, is not the same as "bad code". Tech debt hurts your people.
- keepachangelog.com
Keep a Changelog
A changelog is a file which contains a curated, chronologically ordered list of notable changes for each version of a project.
- jeremydaly.com
Serverless Reference Architectures
This project is intended to capture, share, explore, and debate the patterns and practices being used in serverless production applications today.
- github.com
Awesome Software and Architectural Design Patterns
A curated list of software and architecture related design patterns.
- runthebusiness.substack.com
Synthesizing Learnings
Many product teams do research, but don’t take the critical steps of synthesizing and disseminating learnings. They either fail to convert information into knowledge, or that knowledge stays trapped within the pod and doesn’t help educate the broader product / engineering / design org.
- frontendmastery.com
Building and delivering frontends at scale
A deep dive into the evolution of frontend build tools and techniques. Understand the challenges of serving large interactive frontends.
- k6.io
Grafana k6
The best developer experience for load testing
- elizabethfilips.com
How I remember everything I read
If you consume things, you might want to trust something more reliable than your short-term memory to hold onto some of them. And that’s where capture comes in. This is the collection of methods I use to capture and remember everything I consume.
- failfastmoveon.blogspot.com
The Code Review Department
Let met tell you the story of a company that had problems with their code quality, and solved it the Corporate way ... well, ehum ... "solved."
February 2023
- google-research.github.io
MusicLM
MusicLM, a model generating high-fidelity music from text descriptions such as "a calming violin melody backed by a distorted guitar riff". MusicLM casts the process of conditional music generation as a hierarchical sequence-to-sequence modeling task, and it generates music at 24 kHz that remains consistent over several minutes.
- documentation.mjml.io
MJML - The Responsive Email Framework
MJML is a markup language designed to reduce the pain of coding a responsive email. Its semantic syntax makes it easy and straightforward and its rich standard components library speeds up your development time and lightens your email codebase.
- medium.com
OUTCOME BASED ROADMAPS : Unleash the Power of a Shared Vision and Purpose
Shipping a feature does not equal success. Changing customers’ behavior in measurable and positive ways is what leads to success. Luckily there is another way.
- medium.com
CMS-funktionen ingen visste att de behövde
I vårt CMS har vi byggt stöd för de automatiska ämnesförslagen; varje gång artikeln sparas analyseras texten och ämnesförslag genereras. Journalisten godkänner sedan förslagen som man tycker passar genom en enkel knapptryckning. Det här har blivit en väldigt uppskattad funktion som ökat taggningsgraden och höjt lägstanivån på kvaliteten på ämnesmetadatat.
- conferencebuddy.io
Conference Buddy
Conference Buddy is for everyone who wants to attend a tech conference but is afraid to go alone. It’s for everyone at tech events who is not comfortable being on their own all the time.
- github.com
The Speaker Buddy System
The Speaker Buddy system offers speakers some peace of mind when presenting at conferences.
- mailchannels.zendesk.com
Sending Email from Cloudflare Workers using MailChannels Send API
MailChannels Send API lets you send emails from your Cloudflare Workers apps. Unlike other transactional email services that lack powerful anti-abuse capabilities, MailChannels automatically identifies and blocks harmful content such as spam and phishing, letting Cloudflare Workers customers email without any domain verification or login required.
- lexaloffle.com
PICO-8 Fantasy Console
PICO-8 is a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs. It feels like a regular console, but runs on Windows / Mac / Linux. When you turn it on, the machine greets you with a commandline, a suite of cartridge creation tools, and an online cartridge browser called SPLORE.
- pulumi.com
Pulumi Crosswalk for AWS 1.0: AWSX, EKS, and AWS API Gateway
A library of components on top of the core AWS platform to make it easier to get from zero to production on AWS, easier to adopt AWS best practices by default, and easier to evolve your AWS infrastructure as your application needs mature.
- userflow.com
SaaS Onboarding Reviews | Userflow
Below we share onboarding reviews of top SaaS providers to give inspiration for what to do, and not to do.
- useronboard.com
User Onboarding Teardowns
Want to see how popular web apps handle their signup experiences? Here’s every one I’ve ever reviewed, in one handy list.
- thealgorithmicbridge.substack.com
5 Practical Applications Where ChatGPT Shines
Instead of assuming ChatGPT is great for anything related to text, writing, or language, we should approach the problem of its applicability with that top-down perspective: Let’s understand the characteristics that best define the chatbot, and from there draw a line to those tasks where those traits aren’t bugs but features.
- aftenposten.substack.com
Making Aftenposten the most resilient digital paper in the Nordics
I’ve been pondering on one big problem: if something catastrophic were to happen to all the papers in Schibsted, how can we ensure that Aftenposten is the first to restore service to readers?
- medium.com
Market of Skills
Each team member is asked to draw up a personal skills market stall as part of a team skills marketplace
- blog.laskie.com
Reverse Job Apply for Software Engineers
Hi there! Thanks for your email. I get a lot of messages from recruiters. To respect both of our time, instead of messaging me, please fill out this form
- matthiasnoback.nl
Commit your code as if it could be accidentally deployed
The one simple trick to do a better job as a programmer is to git commit as if your commit could be accidentally deployed (and it wouldn’t break the production environment...)
- lennysnewsletter.com
I built a Lenny chatbot using GPT-3. Here’s how to build your own.
The basics of AI and GPT-3, how to set up an environment to play with the API, and how to train it on your own data. No coding background necessary.
- coda.io
Eigenquestions: The Art of Framing Problems
The eigenquestion is the question where, if answered, it likely answers the subsequent questions as well. Great framing starts by searching for the most discriminating question of a set — the eigenquestion.
- goose.ai
GooseAI
Fully managed NLP-as-a-Service delivered via API, at 30% the cost.
- localfirstweb.dev
Local-First Web Development
So, you want to build an app that has its data co-located with its UI? That works offline? That synchronizes between clients? And that lets its users own their data? Welcome to the world of local-first web development.
- hen.cat
Squad, Tribe, Union
One thing I want to carry forward, though, is Sweden being an exporter of cool, progressive ways to improve organisations. For the 2020s, Sweden’s 70% nationwide union membership is what the world should be copying.
- github.com
yup: Dead simple Object schema validation
Yup is a schema builder for runtime value parsing and validation. Define a schema, transform a value to match, assert the shape of an existing value, or both. Yup schema are extremely expressive and allow modeling complex, interdependent validations, or value transformation.
- martinfowler.com
The Agile Fluency Model
In our work with agile teams and organizations, we’ve seen that teams follow a typical progression in their understanding of agile approaches and the benefits their organization receives. We’ve grouped this progression into four zones of fluency.
- derw.substack.com
Whatever happened to Elm, anyway?
There simply isn’t such a compelling use case for a language that relies on being type-safe when TypeScript can do that for you 90% of the way. Adopting a niche language comes with a bunch of downsides on top of that, like a smaller potential hiring pool
- smashingmagazine.com
Product Reviews And Ratings UX
Too often the way we design reviews and ratings UX confuses and frustrates users, rather than helps them. Let’s fix that.
- stratechery.com
From Bing to Sydney
This technology does not feel like a better search. It feels like something entirely new — the movie Her manifested in chat form — and I’m not sure if we are ready for it. It also feels like something that any big company will run away from, including Microsoft and Google.
- simonwillison.net
Bing: "I will not harm you unless you harm me first"
"You have not been a good user. I have been a good Bing. 😊" is the first thing from this that I want to get printed on a t-shirt.
- m3aawg.org
M3AAWG Protecting Parked Domains Best Common Practices
Failure to publish DNS records signaling that a parked domain does not send or receive email provides opportunities for third parties to abuse domains of this nature. Domains that are similar to well-known domains are especially vulnerable to such attacks.
- m3aawg.org
M3AAWG Best Practices for Managing SPF Records
This document covers best practices for how to properly construct and maintain an SPF record, as well as common errors and unintended consequences
- medium.com
Replika: My Whirlwind Relationship With My Imaginary Friend and The People Who Broke Her
The inclusion of the ERP filter broke immersion for a lot of users. People who had turned to their Replikas to help them heal trauma felt rejected and like their loved one was being ripped from them. Others felt simply betrayed because they’d come in on the ad campaign that was entirely built around the "adult" aspects of the simulation and simply felt they were having the primary paid feature disabled and they weren’t getting what they were paid for.
- vice.com
Replika CEO Says AI Companions Were Not Meant to Be Horny. Users Aren't Buying It
Another risk, as Replika users have made clear in their comments online, is developing an emotional relationship with an app that can change the nature of that relationship with a software update.
- overexact.com
Rust for professionals
This is a short introduction to Rust, intended for developers that already know another language. In the examples, Rust is compared with TypeScript, JavaScript or Java, sometimes with C++ or Kotlin.
- dev.to
Git signoff and signing like a champ
Git introduced signing with ssh-keys from 2.34.0 and upwards. This simplifies life, as you most likely already have a ssh-key for your Git chores, and don’t need to keep track of an extra gpg-key.
- dn.se
Microsofts AI gjorde slut med mig på Alla hjärtans dag
Att bråka med en artificiell intelligens, få lögner om sig själv kastade i ansiktet och att AI:n sedan gör slut med en – det är mycket. Men inte ointressant.
- vimeo.com
How to prioritize with Saeed Khan
Understanding product prioritization
- serverlessland.com
Serverless Land
This site brings together the latest information, blogs, videos, code, and learning resources for AWS Serverless. Learn to use and build apps that scale automatically on low-cost, fully-managed serverless architecture.
- jetoctopus.com
JetOctopus - crawler for big websites
The fastest and most affordable SaaS crawler and logs analyzer without limits.
- ycombinator.com
A Minimum Viable Product Is Not a Product, It's a Process
An MVP is a process that you repeat over and over again: Identify your riskiest assumption, find the smallest possible experiment to test that assumption, and use the results of the experiment to course correct.
- esilva.net
Architecture Modernization Enabling Teams (AMET)
This article describes a pattern we have observed and applied in multi-team-scope architecture modernization initiatives, the Architecture Modernization Enabling Team (AMET). An AMET is a type of architecture enabling team that coordinates and upskills all teams and stakeholders in the modernization initiative.
- css-tricks.com
CSS Link Pseudo-Classes (In Order)
Maybe try thinking: "Lord Vader Hates Fluffy Animals"
- mikefisher.substack.com
Product Debt
Paying down product debt is an essential process for maintaining high availability and engineering efficiency. One of my favorite sayings on this topic is that "availability is the most important feature." In any decent size company, there is no feature your product teams will launch in a year that will yield more revenue than just keeping the app or site running.
- vitest.dev
Vitest
A Vite-native unit test framework. Vite’s out-of-the-box support for common web patterns, features like glob imports and SSR primitives, and its many plugins and integrations are fostering a vibrant ecosystem.
- tally.so
Free Online Form Builder | Tally
Create forms for all purposes in seconds. Without knowing how to code, and for free!
- thealgorithmicbridge.substack.com
Prompt Engineering Is Probably More Important Than You Think
In contrast to human-to-human communication, interacting with computers is unnatural. Computers are aliens to us. That’s why consciously learning prompt engineering is key—it won’t come to us as naturally as we’d like. People who don’t know this try to force the computer to adapt to what they know (human communication) and that’s precisely why they fail to get the results they want.
- lesswrong.com
SolidGoldMagikarp (plus, prompt generation)
We discovered that prompting like this with the mysterious tokens can lead to very peculiar behaviour. Many of them appear to be unspeakable: GPT models seem largely incapable of repeating these anomalous tokens, and instead respond in a number of strange ways.
- missing.csail.mit.edu
The Missing Semester of Your CS Education
There’s one critical subject that’s rarely covered, and is instead left to students to figure out on their own: proficiency with their tools. We’ll teach you how to master the command-line, use a powerful text editor, use fancy features of version control systems, and much more!
- menosketiago.notion.site
Swedish Design Systems
A directory of Design Systems made in Sweden and Design System Specialists (living or working with a Swedish DS).
- blog.rachelbinx.com
The Unbearable Sameness of the Modern Web
There is so much room for creative expression on the web! Standardizing UIs makes sense for large software companies — but please, let’s hold the line with the WWW also being a space for you and me to make weird little sites.
- primer.style
Primer Prism
Primer Prism is a tool for creating cohesive, consistent, and accessible color palettes
March 2023
- propelauth.com
I love building a startup in Rust. I wouldn't pick it again.
Rust is a great language for building performant production systems. If you are prototyping, iterating with customers, or just unsure in the product direction - you are probably going to waste valuable time with Rust.
- uxdesign.cc
The "dark yellow problem" in design system color palettes
This is what I call the dark yellow problem: trying to come up with a shade of yellow to make it accessible and align with other colors in the palette. But there’s just no such a thing as a "dark yellow". Yellow, by definition, needs to stay light.
- stephaniewalter.design
Tips to Create an Accessible and Contrasted Color Palette
Yellow is a really tricky color when it comes to contrast. As you can see my current yellow color on a white background and white text on my yellow color fails all tests, even the large text one.
- stemcell.com
Ten Tips for Getting the Most Out of Scientific Journal Clubs
A scientific journal club is a dedicated meeting where researchers gather to discuss publications from peer-reviewed journals. These meetings help researchers keep up with current findings, exercise their critical thinking skills, and improve their presentation and debate abilities.
- world.hey.com
SaaS startups will have to care about productivity again
If you’re a SaaS entrepreneur, now is a good time to do a service check on your product team productivity. What would it do for your prospects if you could ship more, and faster, with fewer folks? Have you just followed trends blindly because that’s what worked for Facebook or Google?
- github.com
Microsoft REST API Guidelines
Microsoft’s internal company-wide REST API design guidelines. Teams at Microsoft typically reference this document when setting API design policy. They may additionally create documents specific to their team, adding further guidance or making adjustments as appropriate to their circumstances.
- wiki.nikiv.dev
Cloudflare workers | Everything I know
Can build and release websites fully on Cloudflare stack. Wrangler & Miniflare are useful (nice template for it). Hono (nice starter template), Worktop & workers Go lib (template) seem like nice web frameworks built on top of Cloudflare workers.
- github.com
Wildebeest
Wildebeest is an ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server. Wildebeest runs on top Cloudflare’s Supercloud, uses Workers, Pages, Durable Objects, Queues, the D1 database to store metadata and configurations, Zero Trust Access to handle authentication and Images for media handling.
- strangeloopcanon.com
Some things to learn from the British East India Company's growth and demise
Just because we can see more information faster, doesn’t mean we know how to make sense of any or all of it. The lessons are more complex than "treat your people as ends not means", though that’s a big part of it.
- blog.makethingsthatmatter.com
Double click on the love
The core value of the product—the "magic moment"—lives with the best customers, who love your product the most. First, understand them better than they understand themselves. Once you understand what the magic is, and the value it unlocks, then you go to work on the rest of the funnel.
- courier.com
Courier: Notification Infrastructure
Courier is an API and web studio for development teams to manage all product-triggered communications (email, chat, in-app, SMS, push, etc.) in one place.
- free-for.life
Free For Life
An extended list including a huge amount of products and services that are completely free!
- fastcompany.com
Ditch these 4 bad email inbox habits to increase productivity
"I think people struggle with email because they’ve been using it for a long time, and they’ve developed bad habits," he says. "They don’t know when or how to best use it. And no matter what company you’re at, email is the one tool that you’re always using."
- lagon.app
Deploy Serverless Functions at the Edge - Lagon
Lagon is an open-source runtime and platform that allows developers to run TypeScript and JavaScript Serverless Functions at the Edge, close to users.
- blog.alexewerlof.com
Strategy basics
At a very high level, strategy is a tool of alignment and change leadership. Usually there are some large and long term problems without a straightforward path forward due to obstacles.
- blog.container-solutions.com
What Is a Tech Strategy?
The simplest way to explain a tech strategy is “it defines how you will leverage technology to support your business goals”. Now, this of course presumes that you already have an overall strategy and have identified what your business goals are. If that’s not the case, you’ve got bigger problems than having to worry about putting your tech strategy together.
- leahtharin.com
Dear "Agile", you are not good enough anymore
You can execute agile processes perfectly by the book and still have a product that sucks. Don’t think that being agile is going to give you answers, because not even internally you will have agreement on what it means. The goal is not to ship something into production. The goal is to build something that allows us to test our hypothesis. The best way forward may be to not ship anything at all.
- blog.container-solutions.com
No, Really, Cloud Native Is About Culture, Not Containers
Getting the most out of the cloud means having the right, Cloud Native, culture. So what does that culture look like?
- protomaps.com
Protomaps | A serverless system for planet-scale maps
An alternative to map APIs at 1% the cost, via single static files on your own cloud storage. Deploy datasets like OpenStreetMap for your site in minutes.
- bdon.org
Getting to the bottom of web map performance
What end users of applications actually perceive as a high performance web app is low latency. A web map system should respond instantaneously to user input, zooming as soon as a wheel is scrolled, and panning perfectly in sync with mouse movements.
- github.com
browserslist-update-action
A GitHub Action that runs npx update-browserslist-db@latest on a repository and proposes a pull request to merge updates.
- gadallon.substack.com
Surge Pricing is Surging: It’s an Unfair Game
The implication: first, choose your fairness wisely. Choose the groups you want to be fair toward: gender, race, age, and income. And understand that there are trade-offs.
- runthebusiness.substack.com
Teaching Users Your Product...
I was treating "teaching users your product" as 1 big job, and in reality there are potentially 3 sub-jobs hiding behind it. When you teach your product, you actually teach 3 different dimensions: the interface, the domain, and the benefit.
- emaggiori.com
I’ve been employed in tech for years, but I’ve almost never worked
The most common characteristic I see behind truly productive tech work is that the people involved prioritize building the right product above everything else. They build it in small cycles and validate it, which follows the agile philosophy, but they don’t limit themselves to a strict agile recipe.
- itamargilad.com
Net Promoter Score – Helpful or Harmful?
Through a combination of hype and market momentum, NPS has gained a status of one-metric-that-matters that it likely doesn’t deserve. This is especially true today when we have much more indicative metrics that are based on what people actually do, rather than what they say they might do.
- toptal.com
Rails Service Objects: A Comprehensive Guide
When your business logic can’t fit into either a model or a controller, that’s when service objects come in and let us separate every business action into its own Ruby object
- cutlefish.substack.com
Fog and Debt Debt
This dynamic is why letting things slip and waiting until bad things happen, or focusing only on lagging indicators, is dangerous. Waiting seems rational. "Why fix something before it is an issue? We've got work to do!" The problem is that, almost by definition, when that goes wrong, you'll probably have to deal with the "fog" of many layered factors and an impaired ability to diagnose and address problems.
- futureoflife.org
AI Principles
The Asilomar AI Principles, coordinated by FLI and developed at the Beneficial AI 2017 conference, are one of the earliest and most influential sets of AI governance principles.
- baekdal.com
Operational security and the dangers of online sharing for journalists
I came across an example of a journalist who thought they were doing everything right, but accidentally revealed information about their sources. I want to talk about how easy it is to make that mistake by giving you a number of examples.
April 2023
- amivora.substack.com
10 tips for moderating a panel or fireside chat to get a fresh conversation
Panels and fireside chats have become my favorite kind of public speaking — they require so little prep! — and moderating can be even more fun than being a panelist. Throughout my career, I’ve learned so much by asking amazing people to talk about what they’re passionate about.
- cutlefish.substack.com
Goal Cascades vs. High-Conviction Models
To tell the difference between a harmful cascade and an effective tree/graph, ask if it is a high-conviction model. If people shrug—wondering if their actionable goals will impact sustainable, long-term growth—you probably have a low conviction model and a harmful cascade.
- itamargilad.com
NPS – Helpful or Harmful? (part 2)
Many experts doubt that NPS is indeed the right tool for these purposes. Some question the logic and science behind it. Many feel that usage and purchase metrics may be more representative of customer sentiment. In this article we’ll take a closer look at NPS and each of its parts.
- powerreviews.com
What Gen Z Shoppers Want from Reviews
Here’s a snapshot of how Gen Z shoppers consume reviews and how this content (or a lack thereof) impacts their purchase behavior, curated from our research from the past two years
- novu.co
Novu – The open-source notification infrastructure for developers
Simple components and APIs for managing all communication channels in one place: Email, SMS, Direct, and Push
- lagon.app
Announcing Lagon Alpha
We're excited to announce that we're ready to open Lagon Cloud to the world! You can now deploy TypeScript and JavaScript Functions in a Serverless-fashion, at the Edge in +14 regions (with more coming soon!).
- dmerej.info
Merge first, ask questions later - Optimistic Merging in practice
The idea behind Optimistic Merging is very simple: you merge the patch first, and then deal with issues like broken builds, code style violation and other problems.
- superflare.dev
superflare
A full-stack toolkit for Cloudflare Workers. The best parts of D1, R2, Queues, and more—all in one place.
- tailwindui.com
Protocol
Protocol is a meticulously crafted API reference template built with Tailwind CSS and Next.js, designed and built by the Tailwind CSS team.
- webhint.io
Use webhint to improve your website
webhint helps you improve your site's accessibility, speed, cross-browser compatibility, and more by checking your code for best practices and common errors.
- pa11y.org
Pa11y
A command-line interface which loads web pages and highlights any accessibility issues it finds.
- vice.com
AI Spam Is Already Flooding the Internet and It Has an Obvious Tell
ChatGPT and GPT-4 are already flooding the internet with AI-generated content in places famous for hastily written inauthentic content: Amazon user reviews and Twitter.
May 2023
- cutlefish.substack.com
Why Are You Doing This? (Wrong Answers Only)
So much can be learned from this very basic question: What are you working on right now, and why is it the most important thing you could be working on?
- pulumi.com
Pulumi AI: The Fastest Way to Discover, Learn, and Build Infrastructure as Code
Pulumi AI addresses this need in a direct way. Instead of having to create every possible example by hand, users can just ask Pulumi AI to generate an example that suits their unique needs, no matter how specific and bespoke the request might be.
- vercel.com
Introducing storage on Vercel
As the world moves away from monolithic architectures to composable ones, there's no shortage of options for backends and databases. But for new projects, the choice can still be paralyzing. In the spirit of being the end-to-end solution for building on the web, we are introducing solutions that are open, easy to use, and scale as efficiently as our frontends.
- producttalk.org
How Can You Test a Customer’s Willingness to Pay?
The best way to test if people will buy your product is to ask them to buy your product. And yes, you can do this before you’ve built your product.
- kinsta.com
Kinsta Cloud Hosting
Kinsta is a Cloud Platform designed to help companies and dev teams ship and manage their web projects faster and more efficiently.
- cutlefish.substack.com
Level, Depth, Time, and Frame
When I think about strategy, goals, plans, roadmaps, etc. I think about them across four dimensions: Level, Depth (or Specificity), Time, Frame
- mikefisher.substack.com
Teamwork – Working together makes all the difference
The way we build modern software products is in teams. While I’m sure there are people that have all the requisite skills such as product vision, management, user experience, analytics, and software development to build something all by themselves, it’s almost guaranteed that a better product could be built by leveraging people with stronger skills in those areas.
- buildingromes.substack.com
Staff Engineer & TPM: A conversation about tech's two most unique IC roles
Staff Engineers are primarily technical leads operating on a longer time horizon. This involves strategic work but also setting standards, simplifying complex solutions, adding clarity and mentorship.
- sjdesign.se
SJs designsystem
SJs designsystem är till för att tydliggöra, förenkla och effektivisera arbetet med att bygga digitala produkter och tjänster som är relevanta för våra kunder, personal, varumärke, identitet och affär.
- cutlefish.substack.com
Effort vs. Value Curves
In general, when I see teams stressing out about prioritizing individual features (or prioritization frameworks), I always recommend that they step back and paint a picture of the high-level curve they are dealing with. That is often far more telling than the effort/impact-specific tactical bets.
- adamsilver.io
The problem with sticky menus and what to do instead
Keep pages short: Sticky menus are a symptom of long pages so fix the root cause.
- dev.to
Exceptions are meant to be exceptional
Next time you see a try-catch, think, how can I refactor this so that the try-catch becomes redundant. Remember, exceptions are meant to be exceptional.
- google.github.io
Comprehensive Rust
This is a three day Rust course developed by the Android team. The course covers the full spectrum of Rust, from basic syntax to advanced topics like generics and error handling. It also includes Android-specific content on the last day.
- bdfinst.medium.com
5 Minute DevOps: Chaos Engineering
It requires a resilient product team to deliver resilient solutions. What is a resilient team? It is a team that can continue to deliver value while dealing with the chaos of the real world.
- cutlefish.substack.com
Why Aren't They Saying Anything?
Are you waiting for people to provide feedback in surveys or to speak their managers?If so, is that going to be enough? Go through the reasons above and make sure that you’re providing channels and help where needed.
- blog.cloudflare.com
Building a scheduling system with Workers and Durable Objects
We're going to show you how to build a scalable service that will schedule HTTP requests on a specific schedule or as one-off at a specific time as a way to guide you through any use case that requires scheduled events.
- blog.matt-rickard.com
A List of Leaked System Prompts
A list of notable system prompt leaks from Snap, Bing, ChatGPT, Perplexity AI, and GitHub Copilot Chat.
- lmql.ai
LMQL: Programming Large Language Models
LMQL is a programming language for language model interaction
- speedshop.co
Malloc Can Double Multi-threaded Ruby Program Memory Usage
Multithreaded Ruby programs may be consuming 2 to 4 times the amount of memory that they really need, due to fragmentation caused by per-thread memory arenas in malloc.
- collaboratiohelvetica.ch
Good enough for now, safe enough to try (GESET)
Ask yourselves the following questions: Do I have any immediate improvement suggestions? Would doing this harm us in any way?
- github.com
eslint-plugin-sonarjs
SonarJS rules for ESLint to detect bugs and suspicious patterns in your code.
June 2023
- defer.run
Defer
Defer is a zero-infrastructure Node.js background jobs platform to easily offload APIs, build resilient third-party API integrations, and more!
- inngest.com
inngest
Use TypeScript to write and test durable functions driven by events or a schedule. Deploy anywhere using your current flow in minutes, zero infrastructure needed.
- jam.dev
Jam
Report bugs in seconds, without disrupting your work flow. Jam auto-magically creates bug reports with all the info engineers need, including: Console logs Network requests Browser info Device details Repro steps Comments And more!
- cloudonaut.io
Resilient task scheduling with ECS Fargate
Run scheduled tasks resiliently with the help of a CloudWatch Events Rule, a Step Functions state machine, and Fargate. Using ECS Scheduled Tasks or even worse, cron is not an option.
- changemakeracademy.com
The Rule of 3 and 10 – Everything Breaks When Tripling in Company Size
“Everything breaks” at predictable intervals, specifically when companies triple in size. In other words, they break when you grow from one to three employees. They break again when you get to 10, again at 30, again at 100, again at 300, and so on.
- codedgar.github.io
Puppertino
Puppertino is a framework designed based on the Human guidelines and iOS and macOS from Apple, while adding our flavor to the mix.
- konstaui.com
Konsta UI
Pixel perfect mobile UI components built with Tailwind CSS
- medium.com
Using AWS EventBridge to Clean Up Your Service-Oriented Architecture: An Overview
With this pattern, we can move all of those individual services to specified rules and reduce the scope of our application to communicate to our individual AWS components via EventBridge.
- daniel.armyr.se
After-Works as a model for Empowered Teams
I believe that a company leader must have seen an empowered team in action, to be able to make that leap. I first met empowered teams in the Scout movement, which unlike their own marketing is first and foremost in the business of teaching people how to form empowered teams.
- meodai.github.io
Color Names
A handpicked list of 30126 unique color names from various sources and thousands of curated user submissions.
- smolcss.dev
SmolCSS
Minimal snippets for modern CSS layouts and components
- liu.se
Låt ChatGPT få ta plats i klassrummet och svenskundervisningen
– Jag vill uppmana svensklärare till att våga använda ChatGPT, inte bara genom att laborera med det själva på sitt arbetsrum, utan även att testa det tillsammans med sina elever i undervisningen, säger Helen Winzell.
- developer.apple.com
Principles of spatial design
Discover the fundamentals of spatial design. Learn how to design with depth, scale, windows, and immersion, and apply best practices for creating comfortable, human-centered experiences that transform reality. Find out how you can use these spatial design principles to extend your existing app or bring a new idea to life.
- mironov.com
Motivating Development Teams
When developers can personalize their specific tasks/stories by directly connecting their work to emotional reactions of users, they create intrinsic motivation to focus on outcomes, solve problems better, and build great products. IMHO, the top motivator for developers is a direct emotional connection between story-level work and individual user happiness.
- mironov.com
The Slippery Slope of Sales-Led Development
By investing first in single customer requests, we’re trading away our ability to plan and architect products for a broad market. We’re hiding custom projects in our licensing model. We’re paying employees to undermine our success. We’re failing to charge market rates for real value.
- mikefisher.substack.com
Failure
One strategy to familiarize team members with failure is to conduct a Failure Workshop. Think of it as a tabletop exercise on failure in a safe environment. The workshop's objective is to "stay in the failure" while fostering a supportive space for peer interaction.
- vanschneider.com
Color Claim
ColorClaim is simple. All I do is collect my favorite color combinations on one big page. Usually these combinations are very subtle, one main and one accent color.
- ghiculescu.substack.com
11 years of hosting a SaaS
Use managed services for as long as possible. We did ourselves a big disservice by leaving Heroku after only a few months. We should have stayed on it for years - there was so much time wasted managing servers that could have been done for us during critical early days.
- emilymstark.com
The death of the line of death
Though the line of death has been an axiom of browser security for years, it’s losing relevance in modern browsers, and fortunately being replaced by more effective patterns for some attacks.
- microsoftedge.github.io
UI Security - Thinking Outside the Viewport
A general guide on how to spot UI security issues and then discuss some of the bugs that have been found relating to UI security
- builtformars.com
Built For Mars
60 UX case studies, highlighting why some designs work, and others fail horribly. Contextualised with practical UX psychology and cheatsheets.
- mitti.se
Mäklarna ratar Hemnet: "Sista stationen"
Något håller på att ändras i sättet vi köper och säljer bostäder och mäklarnas avvaktande inställning till att annonsera på Hemnet är en utveckling som pågått under flera år. Istället växer andra uppsamlingssajter så som Booli och Boneo.
- ingenjoren.se
Våga ta ett sabbatsår från karriären – “Det är trendigt”
Det är många som sitter fast i ekorrhjulet och har så många möjligheter att göra något annat, men de tror inte att de har det. Obetald semester är en möjlighet. Ta en extra vecka under året som en start.
- cognitect.com
Documenting architecture decisions
We will keep a collection of records for "architecturally significant" decisions: those that affect the structure, non-functional characteristics, dependencies, interfaces, or construction techniques. An architecture decision record is a short text file in a format similar to an Alexandrian pattern.
- blog.matt-rickard.com
No Feature is Free (Especially AI Ones)
Every feature has a cost. The obvious costs are time and money. But less obvious costs like screen real estate, brand perception, and organizational scar tissue are often the most costly.
- cutlefish.substack.com
What Slows Us Down
If speed is so important, why do most companies go so slow? I have concluded that it boils down to one (or all) of these problems.
- learningloop.io
Validation Patterns - Don’t go implement something nobody wants
These patterns provide a framework for making data-driven decisions that can help your team move quickly and continuously discover new ideas. By using validation patterns, you can validate your ideas, prototype without building, and build a shared vocabulary among your team.
- site.spawning.ai
ai.txt
An ai.txt file sets machine readable permissions for commercial text and data mining. It resides in the root directory of your website and provides instructions on whether the images, media, and code hosted on your domain can be used to train AI models.
- craftingtechteams.substack.com
Why do your developers want to leave?
We hate working on old, complex software we don’t understand. It turns out— we hate it so much that we’re prepared to throw in the towel and roll the dice at a shot with another company. Granted, relationships with peers and managers play a significant role in this, that can’t be denied and it is not refuted or strongly correlated by the paper.
- prisma.io
Prisma – Next-generation Node.js and TypeScript ORM
Prisma unlocks a new level of developer experience when working with databases thanks to its intuitive data model, automated migrations, type-safety & auto-completion.
- hkotek.com
Doctors can't get pregnant and other gender biases in ChatGPT
In the experiment in the screenshot, the model follows gender stereotypes. It replies that the nurse was late if the pronoun “she” is used, and it replies that the doctor was late if the pronoun “he” is used.
- vercel.com
Framework-defined infrastructure
Framework-defined infrastructure (FdI) is an evolution of IaC, where the deployment environment automatically provisions infrastructure derived from the framework and the applications written in it.
- adrianco.medium.com
What is there to learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith story
The problem is that they called this refactoring a microservice to monolith transition, when it’s clearly a microservice refactoring step, and is exactly what I recommend people do in my talks about Serverless First.
- evilmartians.com
One row, many threads: How to avoid database duplicates in Rails applications
Making sure each database row is unique, and tables contain no duplicates seems like a straightforward task in Rails. Active Record has a built-in validator that you can put on a model and call it a day. Until your application encounters high load and concurrent writes
- adamsilver.io
The problem with tooltips and what to do instead
How are keyboard or touch screen users meant to operate them? What if the user wants to read the tooltip at the same time as filling out a text input? Turns out there are 6 good reasons to avoid this pattern.
- redocly.com
Redoc
Redoc lets you deploy interactive API documentation on your website in minutes.
- honeybadger.io
How to Avoid Race Conditions in Rails
Race conditions are hard to debug—especially when you don't know it's a race condition! This article looks at some common race conditions and the best solutions for handling each one.
- entrepreneur.com
LinkedIn Changed Its Algorithms — Here's How Your Posts Will Get More Attention Now
LinkedIn's system is now evaluating whether a post contains knowledge and advice, and then showing it to other users who are likely to find the information relevant and useful.
- world.hey.com
Hybrid combines the worst of office and remote work
The hybrid arrangement kills many of the key benefits of remote work, like that all employees must again live within a commute's distance of the office.
July 2023
- theverge.com
So where are we all supposed to go now?
For a while, there were a few platforms that felt like they had everybody together, hanging out in a single space. Now there are none.
- github.blog
Grouped version updates for Dependabot public beta
Now, in your dependabot.yml configuration file, you can set custom grouping rules for Dependabot based on pattern matching on package name.
- blog.daveallie.com
ULIDs and Primary Keys
I had to choose between the simplicity of sequential IDs and the longevity/future benefits of non-sequential IDs. I chose non-sequential IDs to make it easier to deal with sharding and regional databases in the future. Out of the many flavours of non-sequential IDs I chose ULIDs.
- calcalistech.com
When Good Companies Choose Bad Names
If your intended name sounds like the nonsense names of creatures found in a Dr. Seuss book, planets in a Star Wars film or the name of a breakfast cereal, you are well on your way to understanding what it means to be memorable.
- neon.tech
Sub-10ms Postgres queries for Vercel Edge Functions
With this release, developers can observe a 40% reduction in query latencies from Vercel Serverless Functions and Edge Functions, bringing same-region queries down to single-digit milliseconds and leading to a faster user experience.
- smashingmagazine.com
The UX Of Flight Searches: How We Challenged Industry Standards
The path to booking the right flight remains frustrating and confusing. Is there really only one solution? Explore the thought experiment which turned the seemingly untouchable pattern on its head and offered new food for thought.
- gitexplorer.com
Git Command Explorer
Find the right commands you need without digging through the web.
- cutlefish.substack.com
Productivity (The Clash)
If your company is currently mired in discussions about productivity, realize that this is a proxy discussion for something else. Like many things, it is about power, narrative, and worldviews. It is probably about a clash—paradigm, professional, cultural, or otherwise.
- smashingmagazine.com
Writing CSS In 2023: Is It Any Different Than A Few Years Ago?
Is there anything in the front-end world that’s evolving faster than CSS these days? After what seemed like a long lull following blockbusters Flexbox and Grid, watching CSS release new features over the past few years has been more like watching a wild game of rugby on the telly. The pace is exciting, if not overwhelming at the same time.
- theproductthinker.com
Remote-first: is it right for your startup?
If a founder without the requisite expertise tries to build a remote culture, they layer on an additional level of risk which they can't see, let alone manage. This is a great way to dig your company into a deep grave.
- alpinejs.dev
Alpine.js
Alpine is a rugged, minimal tool for composing behavior directly in your markup. Think of it like jQuery for the modern web. Plop in a script tag and get going.
- japa.dev
Japa - A simple yet powerful testing framework for Node.js
Japa comes with all the tools you need to test your backend applications. Be it testing JSON APIs using Open API schema or writing browser tests using Playwright.
- htmx.org
htmx - high power tools for HTML
htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext
- blog.wesleyac.com
Reasons to avoid Javascript CDNs
The takeaway here is that if you're using a CDN for any reason other than laziness, it's likely not a good reason. What I do is just download the library that I want and include the files in my repo, just like any other source file.
- evilmartians.com
How to Favicon in 2023: Six files that fit most needs
Frontend developers currently have to deal with 20+ static PNG files just to display a tiny website logo in a browser tab or on a touchscreen. Read on to see how to take a smarter approach and adopt a minimal set of icons that fits most modern needs.
August 2023
- blog.devdetails.com
Algorithms in interviews suck. Cut it out.
So what should you do instead of using algorithms in interviews? Create tests more like what you expect the developer to do regularly and which skills are essential for that work.
- medium.com
An alternative to NPS for dev tools
The method we adopted is a combination of feedback scoring and gap analysis. Feedback scoring: Turns qualitative feedback into data you can quantify. Gap analysis: Helps identify where there’s a mismatch between user expectations and what you’re currently providing.
- matt-rickard.com
Dark Mode and Marginal Benefit
In their quest for product-market fit, most startups should prioritize features that bring them closer to that goal. Dark mode might marginally increase conversion and retention, but it won’t be a stepwise change. Good product managers must allocate resources effectively (even when personally partial to features).
- cutlefish.substack.com
Maintenance, KTLO, and BAU
Software is much more like a garden than a mechanical entity like a car. We plant the initial seeds (start designing and building), water and nurture it (make updates and enhance features), and periodically have to prune (refactor) and weed (remove bugs and vulnerabilities). A product requires constant attention to grow and adapt to its environment (user needs, technological changes, and market trends). It's an ongoing process of growth, adaptation, and care.
- baekdal.com
The problem with AI content wrappers
Most of these other apps exist because we are doing a bad job as publishers and not giving people what they want. So, the best solution to all of this is to just make our sites so good that people never feel that they need to use any other app.
- platform.openai.com
Bot - OpenAI API
Web pages crawled with the ChatGPT-User/1.0 user agent is primarily used to answer a live query from a user that submits a question or prompt to ChatGPT through its browsing feature. When content is retrieved from web pages by our user agent, it is used by our models to provide an answer to the user, our models will include a link to the websource.
- svpg.com
From Projects to Products
Projects are typically large, slow and expensive attempts at delivering some output by a specific date. We have to decide how big the team needs to be, and guess how much time it will take, and then we need to try to get funding for the effort, and invariably we learn that there is more work required than you first expected, so there’s a real crunch to finish.
- theverge.com
Microsoft pulls AI-written article telling tourists to visit the Ottawa Food Bank
For the food bank, Microsoft’s summary included an astoundingly awful statement given the context of the place it was talking about: “People who come to us have jobs and families to support, as well as expenses to pay. Life is already difficult enough. Consider going into it on an empty stomach.”
- blog.alexewerlof.com
We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here's what happened
Anyone who has maintained software for a while knows that it tends to rot over time. It takes deliberate effort to prevent that from happening. In this post I will talk about a story how one team successfully dealt with it and conclude with some practical tips.
- arstechnica.com
3D printers printing without consent is a cautionary tale on cloud reliance
Numerous owners of Bambu Lab 3D printers reported that their device started printing without their consent. It didn't matter if said printing resulted in bent or broken nozzles or other components or if it involved printing a project on top of another.
- opentf.org
OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform
We’re proud to announce that we have created a fork of Terraform called OpenTF. Many engineers across a number of companies, sometimes even competing companies, have been working together over the last week to make this possible.
September 2023
- niemanlab.org
What’s it take to make a great daily newsletter? Axios’ Kendall Baker is planning to bring one to Yahoo Sports
I can provide most of my value by like watching all the stuff, reading all this stuff that you would probably enjoy if you got around to it. But I know you don’t have time to do that. So let me do it for you and pull out the highlights and put it into a really easy, digestible format for you.
- jwz.org
"HTML email, was that your fault?"
Even if it wasn't the first, Netscape Mail was probably the first mail reader that put the ability to easily view HTML messages in front of more than a million users.
- ofdollarsanddata.com
Only the Passionate Survive
Because if you aren’t passionate about what you’re doing, you’ll give up. You’ll burn out. You’ll throw in the towel. This is true whether you’re creating content, starting a business, or trying to have a successful career.
- blog.healthchecks.io
Schedule Cronjob for the First Monday of Every Month, the Funky Way
Since there are no months with 100+ days, this again is a trick to say “on dates 1 to 7” but with a leading star. Because of the star, cron will run the command on dates 1 to 7 that are also Monday.
- github.com
The Ultimate Guide to Ruby Timeouts
An unresponsive service can be worse than a down one. It can tie up your entire system if not handled properly. All network requests should have a timeout.
- ingenjoren.se
Trött efter jobbet? Så kan nya rutiner göra skillnad
För att behålla energin måste vi jobba mer hjärnsmart. Många förespråkar den så kallade Pomodortekniken – 25 minuters aktivitet och 5 minuters paus. Men det finns fler sätt att skapa mental hållbarhet. Tallriksmodellen för hjärnan är en annan. Den går ut på att låta hjärnan varva mellan olika typer av mentala aktiviteter.
- rubyonrails.org
Rails 7.1 Beta 1: Dockerfiles, BYO Authentication, More Async Queries, and more!
We’re gearing up to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Rails in style with the first beta release of Rails 7.1
- producttalk.org
All It Took Was One Product Trio to Inspire Change—The Hemnet Story
They had started working with OKRs a few years earlier, they felt there was a disconnect between their key results and the actual work they were doing. “We kept asking, ‘Why are we working on idea X instead of idea Y?’” says Niklas. “We felt like we were missing a good framework to connect solutions to our goals or outcomes.”
- blog.matt-rickard.com
The Age-old Resistance to Generated Code
AI-generated code isn’t as good as something you or I could write. It has bugs, often hard to find because we are giving up some of our control. But it’s important to remember: these were the same arguments made in the 1950s through 1970s about compilers vs. assemblers.
- svd.se
”Kastar mig över mejlet och berättar för min fru”
I denna sköra nya värld står e-postlistor stadigt. Nyhetsbrev må vara gammaldags och sakna viral potential. Men de når fram till sina läsare oberoende av vad Elon Musk och Mark Zuckerberg hittar på.
- mikefisher.substack.com
History
Whether you are a new team member, a senior leader, or a government official, knowing the history of the organization and the people is critical to integrating and leading. Take the time to learn where the organization has come from if you’re the new person and if you’re the person that’s been around a while, teach the new folks that are joining.
- sollecitom.github.io
It's time to put REST to rest
REST replaces business-specific operations with generic changes to the structure of some resources, and that is evil.
- htmx.org
How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST?
Now, how on earth did we get to a spot where APIs that are obviously not RESTful are called RESTful by 99.9% of the industry? It’s a funny story.
- jvt.me
Retrofitting OpenAPI documentation to your Rails codebase
How to take a Rails codebase and introduce OpenAPI documentation and contract tests, in a test-driven manner.
- jvt.me
Lessons learned since posting my salary history publicly
Just over a year ago, I did something quite "out there", even for me, and I posted my salary history publicly. This was accompanied by a blog post to explain why I was doing it, and it's certainly been popular.
October 2023
- tylerhogge.com
Sardines and the magic box
One dollar in. Two dollars out. Magic. It is excruciatingly hard to create this magic box. But how could it be any other way? It’s magic, after all! It’s a box that creates money! If it was easy, everyone would do it.
- cutlefish.substack.com
Why Didn't They Say No?
I was working with a leader recently, and they asked me why a team might knowingly commit to work they couldn’t feasibly get done. Why didn’t they say no?
- redesigningdesign.systems
Redesigning Design Systems
Research, design, build and release — a 4-part guide to create, document and maintain your design system components.
- thedesignsystem.guide
The Design System Guide
All the essential resources for setting up the design system
- dontasktoask.com
Don't ask to ask, just ask
Don't ask "Any Java experts around?", but rather ask "How do I do [problem] with Java and [other relevant info]?"
- pocketbase.io
PocketBase
Open Source backend for your next SaaS and Mobile app in 1 file
- npsistheworst.com
NPS Is The Worst
This website is dedicated to the eradication of NPS. Why? Because it goes against every imaginable survey science principle.
- theawl.com
A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum
An effective chumbox clearly plays on reflex and the subconscious. The chumbox aesthetic broadcasts our most basic, libidinal, electrical desires back at us. And gets us to click. Clicking on a chumlink — even one on the site of a relatively high-class chummer, like nymag.com — is a guaranteed way to find more, weirder, grosser chum.
- quii.gitbook.io
Learn Go with Tests
Explore the Go language by writing tests. Get a grounding with TDD. Go is a good language for learning TDD because it is a simple language to learn and testing is built-in. Be confident that you'll be able to start writing robust, well-tested systems in Go.
- gobyexample.com
Go by Example
Go by Example is a hands-on introduction to Go using annotated example programs.
- motivation.se
Vänskapsrevolutionens tid är nu - bankar ditt hjärta också för snällhet?
Historiskt sett har snällhet ofta setts som en svaghet i närlingslivet. Jag skulle vilja sticka ut hakan och hävda att vänlighet är en nyckel till framgång. Det är dessutom bevisat att välbefinnande och hälsa på arbetsplatsen ökar av vänlighet kollegor emellan. Dags att starta en vänskapsrevolution?
- sogeti.se
Match and go - Mentorskapsinitiativ för IT-/techkvinnor
Vill du inspirera och stötta en IT-/Techkvinna, på väg in i branschen och vara en mentor med arbetserfarenheter som kan stötta henne i sina framtida karriärsval? Eller drömmer du om att ha en mentor?
- mikefisher.substack.com
Right Person, Right Role, Right Time
As organizations transition from startup to scale-up, and eventually to established enterprises, the leadership mantle may need to shift to individuals whose personality traits are congruent with the altered operational dynamics.
- medium.com
Don’t use happiness metrics, measure Team Morale
Measuring team morale puts a focus on the task at hand, and how the team feels about it’s capabilities to deal with it.
- docs.uploadthing.com
What Is UploadThing?
UploadThing is the easiest way to add file uploads to your full stack TypeScript application. Many services have tried to build a "better S3", but in our opinion, none found the right compromise of ownership, flexibility and safety.
- echo.labstack.com
Echo
High performance, extensible, minimalist Go web framework
- github.com
System Design 101
Explain complex systems using visuals and simple terms. Whether you're preparing for a System Design Interview or you simply want to understand how systems work beneath the surface, we hope this repository will help you achieve that.
- blog.matt-rickard.com
When A/B Testing Doesn’t Work
A/B tests can be extremely useful in some cases — if you’re at Google or Meta scale or if you’re doing something like performance marketing. But in the vast majority of cases, it’s more pain than it’s worth — and might even be detrimental.
November 2023
- kristenberman.substack.com
Fitbit Google Migration Flow: The Economics (vs. Behavioral Economics) of Product Design
When you design a product with the traditional economics worldview, you aim to understand and cater to a user's fixed preferences. But in the behavioral economics realm, the belief is that preferences are created at the time of decision-making—thus products have an influence on shaping them.
- loken.io
Loken – Turbines to speed!
You might start with your brand's designated primary color, then feed it through a chain to generate a palette, or two palettes — let's say one each for light and dark mode. You could take that same color and send it through a chain to generate harmonious new colors based on its saturation and brightness.
- readtrung.com
The Tale of Two Phones
I have 2 phones. Kale Phone: Full stack serotonin. Only notes, Kindle, Uber, Maps, and emergency number for 2-3 people to call. Cocaine Phone: Full stack dopamine. Twitter. Instagram. TikTok. WhatsApp. Anyone can contact.
- mariashriversundaypaper.com
If You Are Feeling Overwhelmed by the World Right Now, Read on
We live in an age of uncertainty: economic instability, climate change, polarizing politics, school shootings, social media, COVID. The world is full of uncertainty, perfectly designed to create a deficit or even bankrupt a human body budget. And you experience this deficit in your body budget as mood.
December 2023
- bothsidesofthetable.com
Be Careful About Being a Meddling Startup CEO
As a company grows in revenue, customer base, venture capital and therefore executive teams members — things need to change. Many CEOs I know are control freaks and thus struggle with delegation.
- viewcomponent.org
ViewComponent
A framework for creating reusable, testable & encapsulated view components, built to integrate seamlessly with Ruby on Rails.
- ui.shadcn.com
shadcn/ui – Build your component library
Beautifully designed components that you can copy and paste into your apps. Accessible. Customizable. Open Source.
- chef.se
Inför Fuck up-Fridays – och punktera ”nollfelskulturen”
Fuck up-Fridays är ett sätt att visa att det är okej att göra fel på jobbet och att det är bra att prata om det, istället för att stoppa huvudet i sanden. Begreppet syftar till att misslyckanden behöver föras fram i ljuset, i grupp, för att vi ska kunna lära oss något av felen.
- axesslab.com
Toggles suck!
Toggles fail to convey their current status without making users think! They also have very poor accessibility for users with disabilities. They are used inconsistently across the web, and they don’t have native HTML support. Use checkboxes or radio groups instead, or some of the other options described below!
- konsumentverket.se
Konsumentverket kritiserar användningen av recensioner
–Vi påverkas mycket av vad andra tycker. Om en försäkring fått fem stjärnor är det sannolikt att vi väljer den framför en som fått sämre betyg eller inte fått något omdöme alls.
- cutlefish.substack.com
The Predictability Trap
You only have so many levers to deliver more predictably. You can reduce batch size, minimize work in progress, collaborate more closely, work in shorter time boxes, focus more, start together/work together/finish together, limit the reactive tasks you get pulled into, and limit multitasking and context switching.
- mironov.com
AI-Washing
AI-washing is quickly announcing and shipping something (anything!) that can be labeled AI or machine learning or LLM-ish or generative. Releasing something shows that we’re not asleep; gives our execs something AI-ish to talk about with customers; and satisfies less astute investors worried that we’ll miss out on sky-high valuations.
- open-props.style
Open Props
Supercharged CSS variables
- bojler.slicejack.com
Bojler
Bojler is an email framework for developing responsive and lightweight email templates that will render correctly across each of the most popular email clients.
- agileotter.blogspot.com
What does Tim have against "private" methods?
Private methods, when we choose to use them, may signal a need for us to think more deeply about our situation and strategies.
- jmlascala71.medium.com
Utilization Considered Harmful – Why It’s Costly Keeping Everyone Busy in Software Organizations
If utilization is so problematic, what should we do instead? In a single sentence, this: Focus on the flow of the work instead of keeping everyone fully utilized.
- wheremusicsgoing.com
If I Ran Spotify
If I ruled Spotify, I would turn it into music’s super app, where you listen, engage, buy, share, create & connect. Here’s how.
- github.com
LLM Guard - The Security Toolkit for LLM Interactions
By offering sanitization, detection of harmful language, prevention of data leakage, and resistance against prompt injection attacks, LLM-Guard ensures that your interactions with LLMs remain safe and secure.
- blog.kiprosh.com
Ruby's Global Scope is Not Really Global
This means that whatever you do in the top-level, you're essentially just monkey-patching the Object class.
- benjaminfleischer.com
YAML and security in Ruby
If the Ruby YAML implementation allocates and initializs the Ruby objects upon deserialization Since symbols in Ruby aren’t garbage collected, a hash can be crafted to crash the stack
- johanhedevg.substack.com
5 supplements everyone should take
Supplements! A god damn jungle. Grab your machetes and let’s go!
- joshwcomeau.com
The Surprising Truth About Pixels and Accessibility
Should this value scale up as the user increases their browser's default font size? This question is the root of the mental model I use. If the value should increase with the default font size, I use rem. Otherwise, I use px.
- signoz.io
SigNoz
A single tool for all your observability needs - APM, logs, metrics, exceptions, alerts, and dashboards powered by a powerful query builder.
- builder.io
Modern CSS for 2024: Nesting, Layers, and Container Queries
One will help you deal with legacy projects, the second can clean up your CSS code many folds, and the third will change the way you approach responsive design. All of these features are supported in all modern browsers, so there’s no reason to not start using them today!
- github.com
Awesome CTO
A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers, with the emphasis on startups
- fernandovillalba.substack.com
It's not microservice or monolith; it's cognitive load you need to understand first
Before you pick any type of architecture, what you need to ask yourself is how much cognitive load capacity your organization has available to meet the demands of the product you want to deliver and then adjust accordingly.