If you’re applying to Cloudflare Developers (or anywhere else), listen up. I’ve been hiring non-stop for 15 months. Here are 6 tips to make your application stand out & your interviews more impactful:

2/ Reach out This goes hand in hand with #1. If roles look similar and you're unsure, just ask. Dane Knecht 🦭, Matt Silverlock 🐀, rita kozlov 🐀 and sunil pai all have DMs open. It works. I’ve hired someone this year specifically from a cold email to Dane. A good mail goes a long way.

5/ Follow up The best candidates I’ve ever hired followed up diligently. One sentence and a quick insight from the conversation is all it takes. It takes 5 minutes. Do it.

The best career advice I can give to SWEs looking at a bleak job market right now: 1. Get a Claude Code Max subscription, today, and start using it. Be intentional about trying to use it to make yourself better - there is skill involved in using LLMs well. IDE integration is not

Got 2nd place in the Google DeepMind SG hackathon! I built a webapp that converts 2d topo maps into 3d colourful renders + lets you fly through and ask gemini live api what you're looking at.

if I were to create a new startup, I’d probably use Laravel heard they’re really big on bootstrapping

"The secret to success in life is consistent effort. Whether it's exercise or learning math or whatever the heck it is you're trying to do. You don't have to do the superhuman effort thing. Just get started and then make a consistent push every day. If you just every day, keep

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Interactive article: How to animate multiplayer cursors. Rendering smooth cursors always needs interpolation, as network conditions are never perfect—here's how to do it. I wrote this a few years back, techniques still apply! Link ↓

If you ever feel like the gradients you're using are dull or muddy, try using OKLCH colors instead. In OKLCH, hue is angular, which means that the colors the gradient passes through are different compared to sRGB.

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I find it very funny when anyone feels confident that they've figured out agentic programming, even funnier when they're trying to teach others how to do it. I've been working on OpenCode since May of last year and I still have days (like yesterday) where I'm not even sure any of

1. go to chrome dev tools 2. in memory tab, take a snapshot & download 3. drop it into Cursor Cursor will write python scripts to analyze the snapshot and point out what's making your website feel sluggish

That joining a stable company guarantees a stable job. It's counterintuitive but vital to understand that if you join a stable company, then your job security is actually pretty low, because your leverage is low. The highest job security is when you join an unstable company and

Fear mongering about devs losing their jobs to AI is so boring. Show the cool stuff you're building with it if you think it's goated no need to induce stress in fellow humans, we're all just doing our best

a related point that I took away from an Ezra Klein podcast years ago: The point of reading isn’t “knowledge acquisition,” it’s about creating occasions for new thought. Reading inspires thought processes, reactions, connections that would not have occurred otherwise

Working with startup people > hey there’s this cool new tool > thanks for letting me know. I just checked it out and I agree. Let’s start using it! Working with non startup people > hey there’s this cool new tool > we already use a different tool. We dont have time to do an

my biggest health life hack is always having something to look forward to that you’re excited about and training for a race, marathon, event a few months away our brains are wired for pursuit of a goal, you just have to engineer that goal