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Wisdom on complexity and simplicity in software

Why disposable code beats extensible code

Why mental effort to understand code should guide all design decisions

Step-by-step guide to building React’s fiber architecture from scratch

Mature engineers, non-technical skills, and what seniority really means

Put leadership trust ahead of technical perfection

Why big tech trades efficiency for organizational legibility

Why cross-component communication is the root of UI complexity

Lessons from obsessing over web performance to an absurd degree

FAQ on how single-page apps impact LCP, CLS, and INP

Why the cloud market is still wide open for disruption

How AWS Lambda works under the hood

Tradeoffs between strong and eventual consistency in practice

What dev infrastructure should look like in the next decade

Build tools for the 99% of developers who aren’t at FAANG

Hands-on intro to Go

History and future of JavaScript module bundling

Visual explainer on pixels, refresh rates, and display rendering

How Anna’s Archive preserved 256M tracks from Spotify

Practical principles for building maintainable, deployable services.

A practical course on web performance and page speed.

A music teacher proved you can learn at 10x the standard pace

Your entire life visualized in a grid of weeks

Taste as a cultivable sensibility, not an innate gift

Paul Graham on writing

13 observations on compounding, leverage, and ambition

What actually matters for getting things done

Life advice on turning 30

8 years at Palantir: culture, forward-deployed engineering, and moral complexity

Stop hoarding ownership so the company can grow

The moment an employee becomes open to leaving, and why

At senior levels, your job is mostly communication, not code

The results you see today were caused by work done months ago

Quality is a way of working, not something to address later

Low-effort, high-impact changes that users love more than big features

Frameworks for telling stories that people actually remember

Write short sentences and use simple words

Surprising permissions you already have but never exercise

One leader owns engineering, product, and design with no handoffs

Using data to write better UX copy at Dropbox

Coinbase’s onboarding advice for first-time PMs

What your manager wishes you understood about your own career

The uncomfortable transition from liked peer to respected leader

How to make vague feedback specific

The hidden pattern behind what every employer actually looks for

Problems YC wants startups to solve

Paul Graham on choosing worthwhile problems and following curiosity.

A simple method for checking how well you understand a subject.

Authentication and user management

Zero-config code quality preset for Biome

Fast formatter and linter for JavaScript and TypeScript

AI-powered IDE built on VS Code, with 50% off your first Pro checkout via my referral

Async state and data-fetching library for TypeScript and JavaScript

Full-stack React framework with type-safe routing

Payment processing and financial infrastructure

Open-source billing and monetization platform for developers

Toolkit for building AI applications and orchestrating agents

Open standard for connecting AI applications with tools and data

Patterns for coordinating AI agents and tool workflows

OpenAI’s coding agent

Anthropic’s coding agent

Library for building user interfaces

React framework for web applications

Typed superset of JavaScript

Programming language of the web

JavaScript runtime for servers and developer tools

Minimal web framework for Node.js

Framework for building native mobile apps with React

Framework for building web applications

Framework for building web apps and APIs on .NET

Modern Python framework for APIs

End-to-end typesafe APIs for TypeScript

Utility-first CSS framework

Open-code UI components built on Radix and Tailwind CSS

Animation library for React

Frontend build tool and development server

Small state management library for React

General-purpose programming language

Programming language and runtime platform

General-purpose systems programming language

General-purpose systems programming language

Programming language for JVM and native applications

Open-source relational database

Serverless Postgres platform

Relational database management system

Open-source backend platform built around PostgreSQL

Serverless platform for running code at the edge

All-in-one JavaScript runtime, bundler, and package manager

Platform for building and running containers

Web server, reverse proxy, and load balancer

Cloud platform for frontend applications

Cloud platform for deploying applications

Build system for JavaScript and TypeScript codebases

Distributed version control system

Automation and CI/CD workflows for GitHub repositories

Git hooks made easy

Browser automation for end-to-end testing

Vite-native unit testing framework

A TypeScript ORM with SQL-like and relational query APIs.

TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference.

Fast, native terminal emulator

Spotlight replacement

AI-powered meeting notes that write themselves

Multi-format code transformer

Privacy-first web analytics with a clean UI

Visual explanations of how software works

Distraction-free Linux OS and developer terminal

Open-source digital audio workstation

Automatic audio post-production

Compare prices across top-level domains

Plan product work and track issues from idea through release.

Find and debug errors and performance issues in applications.