pro #devrel metric: how many engineers did you coach/help to get a conference talk slot. This will show the internal culture even harder.

Today we call on the Irish government to raise PhD stipends so that we can afford to live in the midst of the cost-of-living crisis! We are currently not even paid minimum wage #payusenoughtolive #phdrights

My last company went from $0 to $2.7 billion in 3 years

Every weekend I spend my time planning

I use this simple 5-step exercise:

Big news in web app persistence: SQLite + Chrome are collaborating to create an official SQLite WASM build, backed by performant filesystem APIs!

I'm mostly very excited for this. But there is one catch that I'm still trying to understand... 1/

Jenkins is the Craigslist of CI/CD tools.

Everyone will slap fancier UIs on and target niches, but Jenkins will still be there, looking exactly the same, deploying everything.

Including Craigslist, and the Jenkins competitors.

Morning dopamine hit, solving a bug in Platformatic 😀

Lessons:

- New codebases will feel really difficult to parse mentally for a while, until you start putting the pieces together

- One contribution will lead to more

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Open source is very peculiar. You can become the person you looked up to.
This week, I stewarded the Node.js security release for the first time.

Did I help you out with a question or issue somewhere? Did I review your PR or cut a release you were waiting for? You can sponsor me to support my open source work 💖
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⚠️ We have shipped three security releases - v14.20.1 (LTS), v16.17.1 (LTS), and v18.9.1 (Current) - to address four medium and two high severity issues.

Details on the releases here:
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Thanks to Vladimir de Turckheim 🇺🇦 for stewarding this security release and the releasers Rafael Gonzaga, Bryan English (💉💉💉💉😷) and Paolo Insogna. This one required quite a lot of co-ordination and work to get out!

I am so proud of my colleagues who are slowly stopping using Laravel in favor of Fastify.

Simple, fast, and stable development is always the best choice.

Here is a reminder that writing the documentation of a software project is hard work. It’s also deep technical work.

We are proud to announce web3_storage as a Platinum Sponsor of #NodeConfEU 22. Read more about their participation in the conference below and get your tickets today!
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In a little more than a week Platformatic will be hosting the first workshop about Platformatic DB at NodeConf EU | 3-5 October 2022!

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I'm so excited to host our first Platformatic DB workshop!

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I'm not saying *you must* go and star the Platformatic repo on GitHub right now so that it hits 100 stars today, but... it would be cool, right? 🌟

Excited to share that I’m now the Director of Frameworks & Developer Tools Vercel!

I’ll be leading our new division which combines the Next.js, Svelte, webpack module bundler, and Turborepo teams along with our React core contributors.

PS: We’re hiring! 👉vercel.com/careers