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Software engineering lessons from production, raw and honest from the heart — almost 20 years of them. Jump to a year in the sidebar, or browse categories.

February 2020

Why and how I built my own course platform

Why the heck did I build a course platform for ServerlessReact.Dev when services like Teachable, Podia, Thinkific, and such already exist? Because of friction my friend.

Imagine you could chat with the core of your industry for 5min

January 2020

Ready to build your future?

5 apps with the modern web stack

How serverless beats servers

Announcing ServerlessReact.Dev – my new course on building apps from scratch

How GraphQL blows REST out of the water

Let's have a look at hyow GraphQL makes queries so much easier and more pleasant than REST

It's never been this easy to build a webapp

We live in exciting times my friend. It's never been this easy to build a webapp and make your first $1,000/month.

Most professional engineers can't build an app from scratch

5 crazy ideas that make $1,000/month

How can you make an extra $1,000 🤔

What could you do with an extra $1,000/month?

Famous last words: Pfft, that's easy

How my bank account went from $909 to $50,000 in 2019

December 2019

A holiday CompSci reading list for you 🎅

A promises gotcha that will catch you out

How I answer the door with AWS Lambda and Twilio

November 2019

Thank you, friend 🦃

What makes you a true master

"I’m a ocean of failure... so I swim"

Towards a Gatsby+Suspense proof-of-concept

Sometimes your worst code is your best code

Experimenting with the new React Concurrent mode

How to recession proof your career

October 2019

How to succeed as a lead engineer – tactics and mindsets from practice

Is hot dog taco?

What if I told you modern tools let you build and launch a small webapp in 30 minutes? Complete with SSL, a .com domain, a database, a documented API, CDN hosting, fast static initial loads, and a hydrated SPA? That's the challenge I posed at Silicon Valley Code Camp this weekend. The audience didn't believe me, so it was time to perform some magic. 🧙

That time monkey patching took 2 days off my life

DO more _work_ less

September 2019

REST API best practice in a GraphQL world

GraphQL is taking the world by storm and it is wonderful. But in the real world, you're still dealing with REST APIs aren't you?

"There's a YouTube video for everything"