TurboRepo is a big deal for the JS community because it addresses the monorepo problem head on, bringing 85% faster build speeds and great architecture/docs/marketing.

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Dec 26 '21

Using Datasette for an ELT Personal Twitter Data Warehouse

EDA tools like Datasette dramatically lower the cost of data analysis, with a surprisingly simple ELT contract - You handle the Extract phase, it handles the Load, and exposes a standard UI for you to do dynamic Transforms.

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Dec 3 '21

How to customize your Transistor.fm Website with JS and CSS

The default Transistor.fm website is kinda ugly. Here's how to customize your Transistor.fm website if you use Transistor. But also it's a simple guide to do clientside customizations of almost any website whose code you don't control.

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Dec 2 '21

Fave New Podcasts in 2021

My picks of best podcasts I found in 2021, across tech, business, and creator categories. I also pick up on best of the best from 2020.

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Nov 8 '21

Community Heat, or Why You Should Get Good at Events

A piece of advice I heard about marketing and community that I've repeated to founders ever since - Get Good at Events.

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Oct 16 '21

100 Bytes of CSS to look great everywhere

Simple grab and go upgrade to the base user agent stylesheet to make for readable sites

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Oct 4 '21

Eating the Cloud from Outside In

AWS is playing Chess. Cloudflare is playing Go.

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Sep 20 '21

Why do Webdevs keep trying to kill REST?

How I broke out of the tiresome REST vs GraphQL debate - by realizing that the real battle is between Smart Clients and Smart Servers!

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Sep 11 '21

September 11th from Singapore

just some memories 20 years after 9/11.

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