At 8 years old I remember reading the SAS motto “Who Dares Wins” on the wall of my Scout hut. Almost 24 years later, I’m finally beginning to understand its significance. Fear rules my life. My achievements come from overcoming fear. My inadequacies come from avoiding scary things. Who

For most founders, landing Fortune 500 customers like GrubHub, Warby Parker & RBC Royal Bank is the definition of success. Imagine then, telling these customers that you're deprecating your successful product to focus on something new. But that's exactly what Jonathan did - deprecating Taplytics and

Traditional software engineers are now building AI applications. But the tools used for building CRUD apps may not work for reasons such as: * GPUs for training/inference * Libraries can be BIG * Long-running, intensive jobs (e.g. processing files with ffmpeg) I recently interviewed Erik from Modal Labs. They provide tools

This talk from Shawn Wang (aka swyx) provides mental models on how to think about Developer Experience. I'm writing non-exhaustive notes for this talk so I can remember some of my favourite ideas but I recommend starting with the original. You can also find Shawn's slides