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Engineering

The Grug Brained Developer faviconThe Grug Brained Developer
A wisdom on complexity and simplicity in software
Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend faviconWrite code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend
Why disposable code beats extensible code
Cognitive load is what matters faviconCognitive load is what matters
Why mental effort to understand code should guide all design decisions
Build your own React faviconBuild your own React
Step-by-step guide to implementing React's fiber architecture from scratch
On Being A Senior Engineer faviconOn Being A Senior Engineer
Mature engineers, non-technical skills, and what seniority really means
How I ship projects at big tech companies faviconHow I ship projects at big tech companies
Prioritize leadership trust over technical perfection to ship
Seeing Like a Software Company faviconSeeing Like a Software Company
Why big tech trades efficiency for organizational legibility
The complexity that lives in the GUI faviconThe complexity that lives in the GUI
Why cross-component communication is the root of UI complexity
Making the world's fastest website, and other mistakes faviconMaking the world's fastest website, and other mistakes
Lessons from obsessing over web performance to an absurd degree
How SPA architectures affect Core Web Vitals faviconHow SPA architectures affect Core Web Vitals
FAQ on how single-page apps impact LCP, CLS, and INP
The Cloud Hasn't Been Won faviconThe Cloud Hasn't Been Won
Why the cloud market is still wide open for disruption
Behind the Scenes Lambda faviconBehind the Scenes Lambda
How AWS Lambda works under the hood
Inconsistent thoughts on database consistency faviconInconsistent thoughts on database consistency
Tradeoffs between strong and eventual consistency in practice
Software infrastructure 2.0: a wishlist faviconSoftware infrastructure 2.0: a wishlist
What dev infrastructure should look like in the next decade
Building for the 99% Developers faviconBuilding for the 99% Developers
Most devs aren't at FAANG. Build tools for the rest.
Go by Example faviconGo by Example
Hands-on intro to Go
Bundling Past, Present, and Future faviconBundling Past, Present, and Future
History and future of JavaScript module bundling
How does a screen work? faviconHow does a screen work?
Visual explainer on pixels, refresh rates, and display rendering
Backing up Spotify faviconBacking up Spotify
How Anna's Archive preserved 256M tracks from Spotify

Articles

There's no speed limit faviconThere's no speed limit
A music teacher proved you can learn at 10x the standard pace
Your Life in Weeks faviconYour Life in Weeks
Your entire life visualized in a grid of weeks
Notes on Taste faviconNotes on Taste
Taste as a cultivable sensibility, not an innate gift
Write Like You Talk faviconWrite Like You Talk
Paul Graham on writing
How To Be Successful faviconHow To Be Successful
13 observations on compounding, leverage, and ambition
Productivity faviconProductivity
What actually matters for getting things done
The days are long but the decades are short faviconThe days are long but the decades are short
Life advice on turning 30
Reflections on Palantir faviconReflections on Palantir
8 years at Palantir: culture, forward-deployed engineering, and moral complexity
Give Away Your Legos faviconGive Away Your Legos
Stop hoarding ownership. Let go so the company can grow.
Shields Down faviconShields Down
The moment an employee becomes open to leaving, and why
Communication is The Job faviconCommunication is The Job
At senior levels, your job is mostly communication, not code
All Success Is A Lagging Indicator faviconAll Success Is A Lagging Indicator
The results you see today were caused by work done months ago
Craft faviconCraft
Quality is a way of working, not something to address later
Tiny Wins faviconTiny Wins
Low-effort, high-impact changes that users love more than big features
Master Storytelling in 108 Minutes faviconMaster Storytelling in 108 Minutes
Frameworks for telling stories that people actually remember
The Day You Became A Better Writer faviconThe Day You Became A Better Writer
Write short sentences. Use simple words. That's it.
Things you're allowed to do faviconThings you're allowed to do
Surprising permissions you already have but never exercise
Single Threaded Leadership faviconSingle Threaded Leadership
One leader owns engineering, product, and design. No handoffs.
Design words with data faviconDesign words with data
Using data to write better UX copy at Dropbox
A Letter To A New Product Manager faviconA Letter To A New Product Manager
Coinbase's onboarding advice for first-time PMs
Advice For Engineers, From A Manager faviconAdvice For Engineers, From A Manager
What your manager wishes you understood about your own career
You're a Leader Now. Not Everyone is Going to Like You. faviconYou're a Leader Now. Not Everyone is Going to Like You.
The uncomfortable transition from liked peer to respected leader
Super Specific Feedback faviconSuper Specific Feedback
Vague feedback is useless. Here's how to make it actionable.
Every Company Has The Same Hiring Criteria faviconEvery Company Has The Same Hiring Criteria
The hidden pattern behind what every employer actually looks for
Requests for Startups faviconRequests for Startups
Problems YC wants startups to solve

Tools

Cursor faviconCursor
AI-powered IDE built on VS Code
Claude Code faviconClaude Code
Anthropic's official AI coding assistant
Figma faviconFigma
Collaborative interface design tool
Ghostty faviconGhostty
Fast, native terminal emulator
Bun faviconBun
Fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager
Ultracite faviconUltracite
Zero-config preset for ESLint, Biome, and Oxlint
Turborepo faviconTurborepo
The build system for JavaScript and TypeScript codebases
Raycast faviconRaycast
Spotlight replacement
Granola faviconGranola
AI-powered meeting notes that write themselves
Transform Tools faviconTransform Tools
Multi-format code transformer
SVGL faviconSVGL
Beautiful SVG logos for your projects
21st.dev favicon21st.dev
Largest marketplace of shadcn/ui-based React Tailwind components, blocks and hooks
Seline faviconSeline
Privacy-first web analytics with a clean UI
Fancy Components faviconFancy Components
Playful animations and microinteractions, ready to copy-paste
Geist faviconGeist
Vercel's product font family, mono included
WebTUI faviconWebTUI
Pure CSS library that brings terminal UI aesthetics to the browser
NativewindUI faviconNativewindUI
Tailwind-styled React Native components
Anime.js faviconAnime.js
JavaScript animation engine
Mono UI Components faviconMono UI Components
Terminal-aesthetic React components inspired by MS-DOS and early computing
OKLCH Colors faviconOKLCH Colors
Perceptually uniform color picker
Stripe Dev faviconStripe Dev
Stripe's developer blog, a masterclass in thoughtful design
Departure Mono faviconDeparture Mono
Monospaced pixel font
ogimage Gallery faviconogimage Gallery
Design inspiration for Open Graph images
Knob Design faviconKnob Design
Low-profile mechanical keyboard
Making Software faviconMaking Software
Visual explanations of how software works
Bauhaus Clock faviconBauhaus Clock
Minimal clock screensaver for Mac
Methods for random gradients faviconMethods for random gradients
Techniques for generating beautiful random color gradients
Handy Arrows faviconHandy Arrows
Hand-drawn arrow SVGs
Silk faviconSilk
Native-like swipeable sheet components for the web
Caligra faviconCaligra
Distraction-free Linux OS and developer terminal
openDAW faviconopenDAW
Open-source digital audio workstation
Auphonic faviconAuphonic
Automatic audio post-production
iCloud faviconiCloud
Mail, Calendar, Notes, Reminders - Apple productivity suite

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