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Shipping beats perfection

Why getting things out the door matters more than getting them right the first time.

startupsmindsetengineering

A partner to practise English with, on WhatsApp

Most people studying English are learning theory. Reflex only comes from repetition, and repetition needs zero friction.

productailaunch

How to shape engineering culture in software companies

Before proposing a single change, find out what actually gets rewarded. That is where the real culture lives.

leadershipcultureengineering

My remote work playbook

Lessons from years of working from anywhere: tools, routines, and the mindset that makes it sustainable.

remoteproductivitynomad

The simple math behind a profitable SaaS

Revenue is customers times price. Most builders only ever try to move one of those two numbers.

saaspricingbusiness

Why I still love static sites

A short take on keeping the web simple with HTML, CSS, and a bit of JavaScript.

techwebdesign

How to price your product with a method

Five steps from economic value to three anchored plans, so you stop pricing on intuition or by copying a competitor.

saaspricingbusiness

We may be the last generation of programmers

Computing is not programming. Code is the interface we happened to find, and interfaces get replaced.

aiprogrammingfuture

"But what if everyone does it..."

Fear dressed up as an argument. Most people never start, and almost nobody finishes.

mindsetcreating

Design tokens in practice

How CSS custom properties can replace a design system framework and keep your UI consistent.

cssdesignfrontend

Building in public

What I learned from sharing the process, not just the product.

indiestartupstransparency

Building a SaaS starter kit

LLMs made it easy to start a product and just as easy to skip the infrastructure. That gap is what Arki is for.

saaswebdevproductivity

Arriving in Montenegro, and nearly a quarter of the world

Country 46. What makes the travelling possible is remote work, and what breaks remote work is never the model.

travelremotenomad

20 books to add to your reading list as a tech professional

Algorithms, architecture, data, design and a bit of history. Twenty books worth your time, with a line on each.

bookscareerprogramming

Sell better just by asking the right questions

SPIN Selling: understand the customer before offering anything, and let them arrive at the need themselves.

salesbusinesscareer

Refactoring, explained simply

Not a cleanup marathon. A series of small changes that keep the behaviour and improve everything else.

programmingrefactoringproductivityengineering

Public mentorship: how to break into freelancing with no experience

The long, useful answer: why you want it, what to do in each scenario, the mistakes that cost beginners money, and why platforms are mostly a trap.

freelancercareerbusinessbeginners

A complete checklist to launch your SaaS from zero

Twelve things to have in place to get out of idea mode and put a product in front of people who can pay for it.

saasstartupchecklist

Hash tables are brilliant

How do you find something as fast as possible? The answer turns searching into a single arithmetic step.

programmingalgorithmsfundamentals

Study the fundamentals

The questions worth being able to answer, from computer architecture to containers, and what to read for each.

careerlearningprogramming

I launched my e-commerce, and you can launch yours

The store is the easy part. A checklist for the hard part: niche, supplier, product, marketing and validation.

ecommercebusinessnomad

Your effort will not be rewarded

Markets do not pay for effort. They pay for perceived value, and perceived value is subjective.

careermindset

A complete UX/UI design guide, from zero to advanced

A study path for digital product design: eight modules with lessons, references and exercises at every step.

designuxuicareer

What does one month in Chiang Mai, Thailand cost?

A real breakdown: accommodation, food, transport, coworking and the extras, from minimalist to comfortable.

travelnomadcost-of-living

What a digital nomad actually is

Not the laptop-on-the-beach photo. A definition built on geographic freedom, not on a count of countries.

nomadtravelremote

Struggling to name your company or project?

Get the branding basics first, then go and be creative with a tool built for it.

brandingnamingstartup

You can build a whole company by yourself

AI tools covering every essential piece of a brand: name, logo, landing page, video, imagery and copy.

aibrandingstartuptools

Checklist for a complete, production-ready Nuxt project

Fifteen areas worth settling before a Nuxt project grows: structure, state, performance, testing, security.

nuxtwebdevchecklist

Goals for 2025

Not about achieving everything, but about having a direction that cuts down the distractions.

goalscareerproductivity

5 lessons from 7 years of remote work

What actually makes remote work function, learned across companies of nearly every size and niche.

remotecareerworkplace

What happens when you type a URL into the browser

From parsing the URL to painting the page: the steps between pressing Enter and seeing a site.

webdevbrowserweb

Let's talk about shadows on the web: Shadow DOM

Encapsulated styles and behaviour, what the isolation buys you, what it costs, and how it differs from the Virtual DOM.

programminghtmlwebdev

How to land your first freelance job

No portfolio, no contacts, no reputation. Where the first client actually comes from, and what to offer them.

freelancercareerbeginners

Mastering TypeScript's utility types

Partial, Required, Readonly, Pick, Omit, Record and friends: what each one does and when to reach for it.

typescriptdevelopmentcareer

Backend checklist for a real-world web application in Go

Everything between a handler that returns 200 and something you would put your name on in production.

gobackendchecklistengineering

9 Web APIs that do actual magic

Light sensors, Bluetooth, cross-tab messaging, screen capture and more. Things the browser can do that it has no business doing.

webapisjavascriptwebdev

Junior to senior: overcoming low confidence

The journey is not only technical. Confidence is the part traditional education tends to leave unsolved.

careerbeginnersdevelopment

Stop blaming and start solving

Blame and elaborate justifications are a straight line to failure, for your career and for your team.

careersoftskillsengineering

A day of async work: the ideal routine

Remote work is not the office with a webcam. What a day actually looks like when async comes first.

asyncremoteworkflow

Goals for 2024

A browser written in Rust, 25 books, skydiving abroad, and a few things I would rather keep secret.

goalscareerproductivity

Using a worker pool to process many tasks in Go

Unbounded goroutines are the easy mistake. A pool gives you throughput with a ceiling you chose on purpose.

goprogrammingconcurrencybackend

Micro-frontends, and what they actually cost

I architected one across eight product modules. Here is what it solved, what it did not, and how to tell which one you have.

frontendarchitecturewebdevengineering

How do you make money as a programmer?

There is no recipe. But in a field the world revolves around, money is an inevitable consequence.

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