TailwindMerge for Laravel

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.

From Escape the Algorithm. When we create a contract or a pattern, there are gains in familiarity, modularity, and composability, but it's a lossy translation. If I were to design a personal map of my neighborhood, it would include the potholes I swerve by on my bike rides, the neighbor’s sweet precocious 4 year old that is always on the front...