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Personal software has been my passion project for the past few months. Part of my journey has been building out a platform for my apps to live on. Most web frameworks don’t have en…

A while back, I decided I wanted to build a grocery store list app for my wife and I to share. Building a native app felt too difficult. I would have to deal with App Store review,…

I’m working on [Homestead]( https://myhomestead.dev ), which is my OSS solution for building personal apps. You can build web-apps and Homestead will handle backend, agent support,…

I’ve been working on an OSS backend-in-a-box called [aepbase]( https://aepbase.io/ ). For the past few years, a group of us from Google, Microsoft, GM, IBM, Roblox, Rubrik + more h…

What’s GSAP?

The AEPs were originally based off Google AIPs, but we did a hard fork and have altered a lot since then. For one thing, the AIPs were entirely protobuf focused, while we're focusi…

I'm not convinced that any of these are solving API design problems.

AEP began its life as a fork of AIP! We’ve got a bunch of ex-Google folks on the project, including the former API Lead at Google.

I’ll make a plug for aep.dev, which is a collection of API design best practices and assorted tooling

Aside - where was the diagram made?

Grades aren’t terribly important. Some companies (including notable ones) will filter those with lower than a certain GPA, but there’s always ways around that. If you don’t have go…

These are the same kinds of communities are just being ravaged by brain drain. Their brightest students And their college graduates are being driven out of town from lack of opport…

A lot of it has to do with credentialing. MOOC credentials aren’t worth the time investment.

It's really cool to see a unicorn come out of Detroit. The area isn't known for tech, despite having the largest concentration of engineers in the country. Hopefully, more startups…

That seems very unusual for a low CoL city. It seems like there's an unbelievably large gulf between high + low CoL cities (far more than CoL would account for)

Why pick Michigan of all the universities for this stereotype?

This is also responsible for geographic inequality throughout the country. The large tech companies are based out of Silicon Valley and Seattle. The majority of their employees and…

At what point does it become cheaper to buy real estate in cheaper cities and use the excess money to attract talent there?

I feel like this potentially buried the lede. Apple is planning on opening up a new campus in the USA. I feel like Amazon's HQ2 search is going to open the floodgates for tech comp…