The Art of Decision-Making

Optimize for optionality and build towards checkpoints In a project management-themed Hackers Incorporated episode, Adam Wathan introduced derisking projects with save points. The entire episode is definitely worth your time, but that specific piece of advice has changed the way I work as a developer and make decisions as a project manager. In...

For the past year, Obsidian has been my note-taking companion. I don't care about fancy features like backlinks, canvas… I like Obsidian because it's fast, minimal (up to you!), customizable, works with Markdown files, and has a good enough mobile app. I've slowly grown towards a more consistent way of taking and organizing notes. While I'm using...

Next week we're sending out the first issue of a new newsletter: href.email. Content on the internet is at a tipping point. Social media actively discourages sharing links, while AI-generated content is gaining prominence. We want to double down on human-created and curated content. Authors and creators put a lot of effort into their work, which...

I thought this image from Christoph Niemann in Sunday Sketching was worth sharing. We can force ourselves to do good work. But for great work, we need a portion of luck. PS: I highly recommend Christoph's Abstract episode which you can watch for free on YouTube.

I've been writing more Blade + Tailwind the past few weeks. Coming from React + Tailwind I really missed tailwind-merge and clsx, but luckily came across this great package from Sandro Gehri. {{-- components/button.blade.php --}}button {{ $attributes ->merge(['type' => 'submit']) ->twMerge('bg-green-500') }}> {{ $slot...