"You're only successful because you have a large following." BS. Here's how you can do the same with 0 followers 🧵👇

This is a really great article on building trust as a manager ✨ jacobian.org/2023/nov/16/ho…

FLAME is out! 🔥 Auto scale by wrapping any app code in a function and have that block run in a temporary copy of your app. It's time to rethink Serverless. No rewrites. No bespoke runtimes. No outrageous layers of complexity. Blog + screencast 👉 fly.io/blog/rethinkin…

“Life without a design is erratic,” Seneca wrote, and full of uncertainty. Procrastination feeds on uncertainty. Routine eliminates that uncertainty. We know what we do and when we do it. Procrastination is boxed out—by the order and clarity you built.

If you want momentum, you’ll have to create it yourself, right now, by getting up and getting started.

Problem: React's useEffect only specifies when code should run. It doesn’t document why it should run or what it should do. This makes useEffect hard to read, debug, and maintain. Solution: Use a custom ESLint rule to require using a named function. Here’s a custom rule from

First talk: Brad Lhotsky - Craigslist replaced Redis with ClickHouse for rate limiting (chose it over ElasticSearch “queries are much faster”). Running in replicated setup in production for over a year “with not a single alert”!

🕷️ ScrapeGraphAI: You Only Scrape Once ScrapeGraphAI is a web scraping python library that uses LLMs to create scraping pipelines for websites, documents and XML files. Just say which information you want to extract and the library will do it for you! github.com/VinciGit00/Scr…

The product trio is merging. And it's not just because of AI. 🧵

Testing tip: Tests are your product's executable specifications. If you want to make a confusing area of the code easier to understand, first work on making the specifications easier to understand.

The single trait that can redefine your path

Aging well as a Software Engineer 👇 Mindset and Approach •Product mindset with Tech expertise > Tech expertise with no product understanding •Solving the problem that helps business > Solving a non-existent problem •Saying NO > Saying yes and delaying •Overestimating >

Here is a step-by-step introduction to building a workflow with a custom AI agent that uses MCP. I explain every component in the video: 1. Building the MCP server 2. Building the agent and an MCP client 3. Building a workflow that uses the agent The goal is simple: Generate a

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This is why 99% of people stay stuck their entire lives:

Linear has a 30-minute weekly meeting called "Quality Wednesdays." I sat through one and WOW Devs show a quality or perf-related fix they did last week. It can be big, or small. We went through 17 issues, from massive backend performance wins, to this tiny one. Can you see it?

One of my engineers just DM'd me his exact process for one-shotting very large codebase changes. I asked him if I could share it with you all. He said "send it." Quick disclaimer: 99% of his time is spent iterating on a markdown “plan” file and 1% is spent implementing.

The Claude Code SDK is now the Claude Agent SDK Why? Because we realized the Claude Code agent harness is useful for much more than coding. In fact, we're moving to using it to power most of our own agent loops at Anthropic.