My personal library

Need to break this down in separate pages

Blogs

Engineering Culture

• Ditch the Template: Incident Write-ups They Want to Read
• Maximizing Developer Effectiveness
• Questions I’m asking in interviews
• Engineering Ladder
• CircleCI Engineering Competency Matrix
• Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software
• Right-sizing your technology team
• Maximize your tech investments with Engineering Effectiveness
• The Startup’s CTO’s Handbook

Career

• Questions I’m asking in interviews
• Get your work recognized: write a brag document
• The D.E.N.N.I.S. system: Resume tips for Senior Devs
• Employer Test - Questions to ask employer

Softare Craftmentship

• End-to-End Encryption in the Browser
• How Kubernetes And Kafka Will Get You Fired
• Categorizing Products at Scale | Shopify

Misc

• Willingness to look stupid
• Some blogging myths

Reading List

Entreprenuership

• Getting a job as an engineering executive
• Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track
• The Saas Playbook
• Founding Sales

Hacker News Threads

Entreprenuership and Management

• Ask HN: What companies have publicly available handbooks?
• Enterprise Ready SaaS Feature Guides
• Ask HN: What books helped you in your entrepreneurship journey?
• Incompetent but Nice

Programming

• Ask HN: Best examples of software documentation that you’ve come across?
• Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it?

Companies To Keep An Eye On

• Launch HN: Defer (YC W23) – Zero-infrastructure background jobs for Node.js
• Show HN: Noya – A new kind of design tool

Misc

• Ask HN: What useful physical hobbies there are?
• Why I Blog

Awesome Saas

snaplet

• Amazing documentation.
• Unique value proposition targeting most developers.
• Clear illustration making me understand exactly what problem product solves.

pipedream

• Awesome product that I see myself using for many tasks. Similar to Azure Logic Apps and Microsoft Power automate.
• Compeling video.

cal.com

• Awesome landing page.
• Public company handbook.
• Commitement to opensource.
• Awesome README.md.

airplane.dev

• Developer infrastructure for internal tools.
• A space I’m interested in.
• Something I might use for work.
• Support cron jobs.
• Similar to retool.com.

Bullet Train

• Framework built on top of Rails.

Rowy

• Awesome value proposition

TalkNotes

• Great landing page
• Clear value proposition

Zaap

• Awesome landing page
• Inspiration for indie hacking and good ui

Swiper

• Great JS library to implement swiping widgets

canny

• User feedback platform similar to UserVoice

Frill

• Another user feedback platform similar to UserVoice

onu

• Very simple internal tools platform

Neon

• Hosted postgres db

Tigger

• Background jobs for js

Inngest

• Also background jobs for js

windmill

• Internal tools platform

Talks

• Spring + Kotlin = Modern + Reactive + Productive by James Ward , Josh Long

Authentication

• ID Token and Access Token: What’s the Difference?
• Identity, Claims, & Tokens – An OpenID Connect Primer, Part 1 of 3
• OIDC in Action – An OpenID Connect Primer, Part 2 of 3
• What’s in a Token? – An OpenID Connect Primer, Part 3 of 3

AI

• Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications
• AI Canon
• Lessons from 139 YC AI startups (S23)