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The social graph belongs to Meta. Microsoft has the best distribution among F500 companies and also owns GitHub and partners with OpenAI. Amazon boasts the world's largest cloud and the biggest online store. Google dominates the consumer web with search, email, productivity tools, and chat. Apple controls the mobile market. Despite the expansion of software markets, many are still trying to find a niche in the untapped space in between - the white space. White space presents an opportunity for

NextJS is the Ruby on Rails of modern development – fast, easy, and just enough framework to get a full web application up and running without getting in your way too much. The company behind the open-source project, Vercel, has successfully built a managed platform around the library that combines a CDN and edge functions to provide a fast, cheap, and scale-to-zero website that serves dynamic and static content. Vercel is open-core – the code for Next is open-sourced, but a good chunk of funct

In one of the first posts on this blog, I talked about how APIs would always beat RPA (Robotic Process Automation). A brief summary of that argument: SaaS as a software model breaks RPA – updates can be sent without user intervention and non-consistent changes (A/B testing). As a tangential point, the shift to collaborative web-first software also takes users away from scriptability (e.g., lack of a Win32 API – see The Programable Web). But something that I missed was our propensity to build h

The Lean Startup came in 2011. It codified the Silicon Valley school of startup building – customer interviews followed by rapid iteration. But is that still the case in 2022? Figma didn't launch for two years after it was founded. Startups like The Browser Company (building a better web browser) are still in closed beta two years after launch. First-mover advantages might not matter as much, but first impressions do. Apple Maps suffered a botched launch – missing data, incorrect directions, a

As a software engineer, staying up-to-date with the latest developments and best practices is essential for growth. One of my favorite (and what I feel is overlooked) methods for growth is reading books. We spend a large part of our day reading Stack Overflow and blog posts, but books have really helped me see things in a different light or understand something I do not come across on a daily basis.

I remember clearly the first time I heard the phrase, "Don't borrow trouble." It was fall 2018, I had the flu, and I was all burrito'd up in a blanket, binge-watching a silly show for tweens called The Nine Lives of Chloe King. And off to the internet idiom dictionary

The Gorilla Web Toolkit, a popular, open source Go toolkit for web-based applications, is being archived at the end of this year.

thinking about scary things • examples from Wave • examples from elsewhere • finding a buddy • getting the timing right • a list of abyss questions

Technological Windows is the central concept of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs's career, and the shape of the game in consumer tech.

Akamai’s acquisition of Linode makes lots of sense, even if Linode’s customers won’t be happy. The real winner, though, is Cloudflare.

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For this week's Pitch Deck Teardown, we take a look at the $3 million seed round raised by developer tool startup Encore.

Docker Extensions is a new beta feature in Docker Desktop. It allows you to run third-party tools in Docker Desktop, complete with a simple React-based GUI. For example, you might run the Tailscale extension, which sets up a Tailscale node inside Docker for your tailnet. Or you might run one of the many GUI dashboards from the Marketplace. Of course, there's nothing new about Docker Extensions in terms of functionality – nothing is stopping you from passing through an API token to a Docker cont

(French translation, Spanish translation, Japanese translation) A couple of years ago I drew this picture and started using it in various presentations about agile and lean development: Since then the…

The Bay Area's growing adult services industry caters to the region's well-paid techies.

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Reviewing the history of video games explains why Sony is dominant today, and why Microsoft is actually introducing competition, not limiting it.

Step inside the Group Partner Lounge to hear Y Combinator Group Partners Harj Taggar, Michael Seibel and Brad Flora discuss the pros and cons of startups selling software to other startups. Or is there a better approach out there? Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/ Work at a startup: https://www.workatastartup.com/ Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) - 00:00 - Intro 01:20 - When selling to startups doesn't work? 03:53 - Startups might not have the problem 05:03 - Startups are not an easy customer than enterprise 05:55 - Early stage companies churn 09:35 - Sales 12:01 - The benefits of charging startups 14:22 - Bottoms up sales strategy 15:18 - Big takeaway #startups #sales #tech #software

The Impact/Effort prioritization matrix is a classic product managment tool. However it can easily lead you to pick the wrong ideas

A good CI/CD system means developer productivity. What an ideal CI/CD system looks like today. Serverless – A CI/CD system should be serverless. There's no reason to be managing Jenkins or individual nodes. Managing CI/CD machines makes it really easy to introduce configuration and environment drift, which causes hard to trace down bugs. Container-native is usually a good choice, especially if you often deploy software inside containers, but anything that provides a real ephemeral environment i

The Why and How of Writing "Hardcore Software"

Inside the Rise and Fall of the PC Revolution (a serialized book)

‍Muse for Teams aspires to be the best place for your team to think collaboratively.https://museapp.com/teams

libSQL is an open source, open contribution fork of SQLite. We aim to evolve it to suit many more use cases than SQLite was originally designed for.

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