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Why composition patterns might be better than memoization for React performance

Software engineer Charity Majors challenges the "10x engineer" myth, arguing that true productivity lies in team performance, not individual brilliance. She encourages building workplaces where "normal"...

Automated nginx proxy for Docker containers using docker-gen - nginx-proxy/nginx-proxy

This article provides SREs with a checklist for managing Kubernetes in production environments. It identifies common challenges including resource management, workload placement, high availability, health...

I need halp.

Theatre.js is an animation editor with a visual interface.

Visualize your node_modules, inspect dependencies, and more.

A simple pub-sub service built over web push

Join top engineers and use our AI-powered writing. Write tech specs and project updates 70% faster.

Container queries expand the universe of designs that can be implemented, giving us whole new superpowers. Now that container queries are broadly available, I think it’s time we start exploring this…

Managing microfrontends in a complex feature-rich app can become a tedious task and easily turn it into a Frankenstein's monster when there's no clear strategy involved.

This resource helps you keep tabs on the backend development landscape. You'll stay updated on the current industry expectations of the backend development roles in different tech stacks, including…

Use Chrome's GenAI APIs to help fix typos.

An interactive guide to learn CSS Relative Colors.

A Starting Point for Management and Tech Leads

Simple Frontend helps you start and scale your frontend development platform to improve the quality and shipping speed of your web experiences.

The Request/Response-API is not just faster, but also makes writing tests easier.

Storage for private, distributed, offline-first applications. Earthstar is a specification and JavaScript library for building connected applications owned and run by their users.

Jim Fisher

Recently I've been thinking a lot about some of the tools I've made, and I have found an insight from game development that I think can apply to the software engineering industry as a whole.

Astra Security is a one of a kind continuous Pentest Platform that makes chaotic pentests a breeze & continuous with its hacker-style vulnerability scanner.

Software development topics I've changed my mind on over the course of a decade

The final part of our Clean Architecture series, exploring the 'S' in SOLID

There’s a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. I don’t buy it.

Tools for preventing problems

I don't think that AI models (by which I mean: large language models) are over-hyped. In this post I will list 50 ways I've used them.

‍OpenTofu is an open-source Terraform fork, a drop-in replacement for Terraform v1.6.x that is fully backward compatible with all prior versions.

Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.

Discover how Anthropic approaches the development of reliable AI agents. Learn about our research on agent capabilities, safety considerations, and technical framework for building trustworthy AI.

Discover how Anthropic approaches the development of reliable AI agents. Learn about our research on agent capabilities, safety considerations, and technical framework for building trustworthy AI.

Why we need a new paradigm to achieve engineering excellence at scale.

Ah, the tech industry.

The 2024 edition of the annual survey about the latest trends in the React ecosystem.

Ice is a powerful menu bar management tool. While its primary function is hiding and showing menu bar items, it aims to cover a wide variety of additional features to make it one of the most…

Flow makes writing quick and clear with seamless voice dictation. It is the fastest, smartest way to type with your voice.

A stand-alone browser and devtool with everything you need to build better responsive, accessible and performant web sites and web apps in less time.

Use Chrome's GenAI APIs to help fix typos.

Balancing ambition, relationships, and leadership intensity

A storage option for 21st century

The career-accelerating habits you can adopt regardless of experience

Practical tips for using Cursor AI effectively, including YOLO mode, test-driven development, debugging, and keyboard shortcuts.

A practical guide to choosing between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity

Ah, the eternal question, straight from the mailbag.