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Why Tailwind CSS

Why Tailwind CSS

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The Third Age of JavaScript

The Third Age of JavaScript

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Lessons and Regrets from My $25000 Launch

Lessons and Regrets from My $25000 Launch

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Reviewing "TypeScript in 50 Lessons"

Reviewing "TypeScript in 50 Lessons"

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The Part Time Creator Manifesto

The Part Time Creator Manifesto

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4 Things I Learned from Mastering Mongoose.js

4 Things I Learned from Mastering Mongoose.js

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35 Principles for 35 Years

35 Principles for 35 Years

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Bringing AWS to App Developers

Bringing AWS to App Developers

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Farewell, Netlify

Farewell, Netlify

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Moderating a 220k Developer Community

Moderating a 220k Developer Community

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Slack is Fumbling Developers

Slack is Fumbling Developers

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My Life as a Con Man

My Life as a Con Man

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How I Approach First Principles Thinking

How I Approach First Principles Thinking

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5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book

5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book

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8 Landing Page Tips from Rob Hope

8 Landing Page Tips from Rob Hope

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Working The Reverse 9 to 5

Working The Reverse 9 to 5

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The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines

The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines

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Prerecording Talks for Online Conferences

Prerecording Talks for Online Conferences

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Against Namespacing Personal Sites

Against Namespacing Personal Sites

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Bottom-Up Idea Exploration

Bottom-Up Idea Exploration

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Why I'm not a VC (yet)

Why I'm not a VC (yet)

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Don't Rush to Simplicity

Don't Rush to Simplicity

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Notes on RSI for Developers

Notes on RSI for Developers

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Mise en Place Writing

Mise en Place Writing

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Naked Emperors in Tech

Naked Emperors in Tech

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Speak it like you're playing a video game

Speak it like you're playing a video game

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The Power of Personal Podcasting

The Power of Personal Podcasting

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Everything You Hate About Clubhouse Is Why It Will Win

Everything You Hate About Clubhouse Is Why It Will Win

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The Meta-Creator Ceiling

The Meta-Creator Ceiling

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Choice Architecture

Choice Architecture

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Solving the Quality vs Consistency Tradeoff

Solving the Quality vs Consistency Tradeoff

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My Favorite New Podcasts in 2020

My Favorite New Podcasts in 2020

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8 Q&A's for Bootcamp Students in 2020

8 Q&A's for Bootcamp Students in 2020

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My Journey from No CS Degree to AWS from Age 30 - 34

My Journey from No CS Degree to AWS from Age 30 - 34

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Enablement vs Ownership Roles

Enablement vs Ownership Roles

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What if Stripe is the next Google?

What if Stripe is the next Google?

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80/20 is the new Half-Ass

80/20 is the new Half-Ass

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Temporal - the iPhone of System Design

Temporal - the iPhone of System Design

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Reflexive McLuhanism

Reflexive McLuhanism

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6 Things Markdown Got Wrong

6 Things Markdown Got Wrong

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How I Got 4 Software Developer Job Offers In 4 Weeks

How I Got 4 Software Developer Job Offers In 4 Weeks

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Fave New Podcasts in 2021

Fave New Podcasts in 2021

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Community Heat, or Why You Should Get Good at Events

Community Heat, or Why You Should Get Good at Events

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Feedback Ladders

Feedback Ladders

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JavaScript: the First 20 Years by Allen Wirfs-Brock and Brendan Eich

JavaScript: the First 20 Years by Allen Wirfs-Brock and Brendan Eich

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Why You Should Pre-Sell

Why You Should Pre-Sell

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The Particle/Wave Duality Theory of Knowledge

The Particle/Wave Duality Theory of Knowledge

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Notes on "Growing a Language"

Notes on "Growing a Language"

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#HeyForGood

#HeyForGood

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Memento Vivere

Memento Vivere

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Blogpost Annealing

Blogpost Annealing

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Mimicry vs Reflexivity

Mimicry vs Reflexivity

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Twitter as Universal Meta-Commentary Layer

Twitter as Universal Meta-Commentary Layer

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$120k in Infoproduct Sales - How to Extend the Long Tail

$120k in Infoproduct Sales - How to Extend the Long Tail

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Working at a Startup From Series B to C

Working at a Startup From Series B to C

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Love Letter to Singapore Mixed Rice

Love Letter to Singapore Mixed Rice

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Preemptive Pluralization is (Probably) Not Evil

Preemptive Pluralization is (Probably) Not Evil

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Workshopping

Workshopping

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Starting a Developer Meetup Community

Starting a Developer Meetup Community

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Guo Lai Ren (过来人)

Guo Lai Ren (过来人)

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