Red flags in a React codebase 🚩 functions named handleClick,handleSubmit 🚩 preventDefault 🚩 useMemo 🚩 fetch inside useEffect 🚩 <div onClick/> 🚩 a "hooks" directory 🚩 css files 🚩 icon library in package.json

If you have bugs in the main 80% regular daily user flow, the product is not going to make it Software that gets product market fit is at the stage of fixing all of the smaller less-likely-to-hit 20% unusual use case bugs, and the very best have fixed almost all of them!

Every time you have to face your problems alone, you actually get the opportunity to discover mental resources you didn't know you had.

The reality of building web apps in 2025 is that it's a bit like assembling IKEA furniture. There's no "full-stack" product with batteries included, you have to piece together and configure many individual services: - frontend / backend (e.g. React, Next.js, APIs) - hosting

Did you know that until 2022 any installed app on Android could see all other apps on your phone without permission? Now, devs need to declare which apps they need visibility to in AndroidManifest.xml I was curious to see which Indian apps were spying on my installed apps 👇

"You learn more in one hour of doing it, than in three months of thinking about it." ~ Marc Randolph, Netflix co-founder

I heard this internal memo of mine is being leaked right now, so here it is:

If you want to do great things you need time to think. Time alone. No people. You need to remove yourself from any form of external information that could interrupt the important work your subconsious is doing. Since they are always busy, most people don't understand this luxury.

Move toward challenges that will toughen and improve you.

Speak through your work.

The winner of this is neither Sonnet nor Gemini. It's Cursor because it's app layer and switching models is brutally low. Just a drop-down menu away.

There is nothing more common than people who could do anything who actually achieve nothing precisely because they had too many options. There are also tons of people who don't seem particularly talented or smart who defy expectations year after year because they focused on the

Gumroad now has an MIT license–truly open source!

Forward momentum in startups is a defining characteristic of the ones that make it. Objects in motion stay in motion. Objects at rest stay at rest. Keep moving, my friends!

Nice - my AI startup school talk is now up! Chapters: 0:00 Imo fair to say that software is changing quite fundamentally again. LLMs are a new kind of computer, and you program them *in English*. Hence I think they are well deserving of a major version upgrade in terms of

You don’t find your passion. You cultivate it by doing something with enthusiasm for a long enough time until you discover the depth of that craft, leading to a burning passion for it. You generate passion in the pursuit of a goal you may not have wanted to pursue, but you saw it

INNA LILLAHI WA INNA ILAIHIR RAJI’UN. The family of the former president has announced the passing on of the former president, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, this afternoon in a clinic in London. May Allah accept him in Aljannatul Firdaus, Amin. Signed, Garba Shehu 13-07-25.

I’m starting to get into a habit of reading everything (blogs, articles, book chapters,…) with LLMs. Usually pass 1 is manual, then pass 2 “explain/summarize”, pass 3 Q&A. I usually end up with a better/deeper understanding than if I moved on. Growing to among top use cases. On