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Part of the beauty of htmx is how simple it is to recreate. As this post shows, the fundamental concepts of htmx really are straightforward. Of course, there are all sorts of edge …

> I've been using htmx for three years now, and it's completely unlocked new ways of building software for the web, especially if you use a server-side templating language. Likewis…

As a database person, this was hard to read. I wanted to find out what the problems are and solve them. A db table with only 10k rows? Even a full table scan should be extremely fa…

To the writer of the article: you missed a big opportunity with this article by not having an obvious link straight to your product, Castro, and by not telling us in a few words wh…

> Congrats on writing a book, big accomplishment! Thank you! The point is that you must make sure your product has the “CarPlay” type of features in order to get new customers for …

I have a chapter in my book Kill the HiPPO titled “Cupholders vs CarPlay”. The premise of the chapter is that some features in software are like CarPlay when looking for a new car …

Linear was simple and fast. Unfortunately it is has become an example of creeping complexity. They keep adding new features at a steady pace, each slowly making the UI more confusi…

We switched to Valkey after the Redis license kerfuffle happened, discovered we were saving money on our AWS bill, and have no motivation to go back to Redis. So we’ve stayed with …

> Actual SQL: joins, subqueries, window functions, query plans And indexes. Many times in my career, adding the right SQL index has solved a serious performance problem.

I’ve been evaluating PostHog for our company. I’ve now made our decision. We won’t be using them. If they are going to position yourself as the non-slimy no-BS guys, they can’t pul…

What are those decent alternatives to Akismet? I went looking earlier this year and found nothing even close to Akismet on a price-to-effectiveness basis.

Well-written article, manages not to sound rant-y while describing the problem well. I feel like part of the blame for the situation is that JavaScript has always lacked a standard…

Flickr was the first site I saw where you could edit some text on the screen inline, without a complete page reload to get an “edit” form. Today this is utterly ordinary. At the ti…

I think this “story” started when The Economist did a filler article about it. The Economist article was based on some pretty weak understanding and knowledge of Kiwis and their cu…

My daughter spoke four languages at age 3. Not because she is gifted, but because she grew up in an immigrant environment. One language with me, another with my partner who speaks …

Oh those Slicehost articles were excellent. I felt like I could actually do my own sys admin by following them.

Fogbugz, if the first version even existed in 2000, was not a SaaS. Nor was Jira, by the way. Both products were initially once-off purchases that you had to install and run on you…

For many of us, the way we manage software projects has changed has changed so much since the days when Joel wrote this. It was a different age, with different products. I’m sure t…

> What surprised me was how much the ugly first version taught me that planning never could. Fred Brooks, author of “The Mythical Man Month” wrote an essay called “Plan to Throw On…

“Damn”, this is good. It takes me right back to 1998, making my first few web pages - with a hand-rolled index page. I probably used NotePad. And how easy it was - I went from read…

A fine time to acknowledge Scott Adams’ remarkably simple and clear financial advice: https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/scott-adams-financial-advice/ I think it is pretty good. You ca…

Right, but you can do a one-off purchase to get the product as it existed at the time. Instead they offered all future improvements in the price. This is not sustainable once your …

As a fellow business owner, I’ll always feel bad when business owners need to make these types of decisions. I bought Tailwind UI - I always thought it was a critically bad busines…

What a great writer! Slightly off-topic, but when learning to speak a new language, it is helpful to actually speak the language as often as you can. There are a couple of websites…