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  • The Great Unzippeningarticle · 2022

    Society is splintering in an unacceptable way and I have a metaphor for it.

  • What to do when iCloud is stuck on uploading itemsarticle · 2022

    I use iCloud as my syncing engine for my Obsidian Second Brain, and twice now I've seen iCloud get corrupted into a really bad state. I also back up everything to github, so I…

  • How to Manifest a Meetuparticle · 2022

    2024 update: for those who work in devrel/organize less-social-more-technical meetups, I have now written How to Organize Meetups Good on Dx.tips

  • Bun vs Deno - New Runtimes for the Third Age of JStalk · 2022

    People are tearing up the foundations of JavaScript with new assumptions and a need for speed. Let’s look at the new kids on the block - Bun and Deno and explore how they might…

  • Talking DX on Syntax.fmpodcast · 2022

    Syntax.fm is one of the shows I really leaned on when learning the ropes in tech, so it was a huge honor to be invited.

  • Sharding Yourselfarticle · 2022

    An advanced tip for high-volume writers.

  • On The Importance of 15-5 Updatesarticle · 2022

    We had a delightful discussion on the importance of writing weekly updates in this week's Coding Career Community meetup. I rarely get so excited about an idea I immediately know…

  • Talking Careers on Webjoy.fmpodcast · 2022

    We discuss what the career path for a developer advocate might look like, as well as podcast listening tools Listen Notes and Listenbox and how they help allow people to look up…

  • AWS, Cloudflare, and Techbro Therapy on AWS.fmpodcast · 2022

    Shawn joins Adam to discuss Amplify and its place in the developer ecosystem, whether we should care about Cloudflare, yet, and how to cope with the anxiety that can come with…

  • Data outlasts Code, yet Code keeps winningarticle · 2022

    My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving into blaming beginners for not knowing the same parts of the stack that they…

  • The 8 Jobs of Managementarticle · 2022

    Recently, John Cutler tweeted a chart on the view of management:

  • The Hard Problem of Rendering Tweetsarticle · 2022

    I've been unhappy with my tweet rendering strategy for a while - Twitter encourages you to use their heavy JS script to render tweets, which undoubtedly heaps all sorts of…

  • Learning in Public on Screaming in The Cloudpodcast · 2022

    Corey Quinn is one of my favorite cloud/creators/podcasters/writers/comedians and I was honored to be invited on his pod!

  • The End of Localhostarticle · 2022

    This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost

  • Why I Moved Off Dev.toarticle · 2022

    2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode.

  • The Radiating Circles of DX Architecturearticle · 2022

    This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/circles

  • Lessons in Competitive Comms from the Plaid-Stripe Kerfufflearticle · 2022

    Now that the dust has settled on the Plaid-Stripe thing it's time to recap lessons learned.

  • Running Docker without Docker Desktoparticle · 2022

    Docker is great. Docker Desktop sucks. Here's my fix.

  • My 2022 New Mac Setuparticle · 2022

    I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.

  • The Third Year of the Third Age of JS on JSPartypodcast · 2022

    I joined JSParty crew to talk more about the Third Age of JS after my Reactathon talk!