Cultivating a faster tech stack with Hydrogen 🌲 Fast Growing Trees recently rebuilt their site with a 3-person engineering team, embracing headless architecture. Jordan Guggenheim, VP of Engineering, shares key outcomes with Ben Sehl: • Delivering more complex features with fewer

Honestly, this interview should be required viewing for anyone building a storefront — not only a Hydrogen/Remix 💿 site. Jordan Guggenheim and his team executed the most seamless build I’ve ever seen. Learn from their experience!

Wrote a little about my old thesis for the cloud when I co-founded Antimetal and how it's been playing out. tldr: SST and Oxide Computer Company are the most interesting players right now. olivergilan.com/blog/cloud-has…

Writing code should be the last thing a developer does.

Some people are struggling with this one so let's walk through a couple of examples. If we were on the same team and I asked you to write some code, what would your initial response be? Would you just go back to your desk, fire up your IDE, and just start typing random bits of

Is your team struggling to maintain a Node.js application? Platformatic has worked with a group of brilliant contributors to publish the 9 Node Pillars: nine guiding principles for creating robust, scalable, and maintainable Node applications in enterprise environments.

BurtonJ thanks I'll check it out

What a madlad

Time to rewrite all static websites to stream with PPR. Let’s get to work. 👏

When Ghostty detects a password input prompt, it now changes the cursor to a lock and on macOS enables the secure input API. When the secure input API is enabled, we show a neat, animated icon that explains what's going on when clicked. Another example of native UI wins (imo).

This is why having AI write code for you sucks. Literally just have the training wheels on forever. Great point by DHH

It feels too mean to laugh at this. Well done Hetzner if this is a real response. 😂 reddit.com/r/webdev/comme…

So we've shipped some huge perf improvements to @cloudflare Workers KV this week, and we've just finished rolling the big ones out. This isn't synthetic data: this is the data from serving config & assets for Pages customers. tl;dr: p90 hot reads from ~35ms -> ~11ms.

One more thing... introducing Astro Storefront 🛍️ Storefront showcases the best of Astro to ship with confidence. It powers our store today, and is the start of our commitment to high performance ecommerce. Give it a clone 👇 github.com/withastro/stor…

this is largely why i'm continuing to be less excited about SaaS - margins are way too high and it's becoming easier than ever to not pay them

When I first joined Meta, I was assigned an onboarding buddy who was a VP that was also a former Microsoftie. They told me this parable of the two failure modes they’d observed when people joined the company. It was the parable of the lion and the lamb.

What to learn how S3 really works? Love this post by Andrew Warfield because it goes into detail about what it takes to run a system as huge, complicated, and critical as S3. And S3 is unfathomably huge--it stores 280 trillion objects and servers 100 million requests per second, a

Hot take: - Don’t cache your HTML page, cache your data - Don’t distribute your data, distribute your cache - Revalidating data is 100x faster than revalidating HTML, even globally - Render your HTML at request time using cached data - Use CDN only to cache immutable assets