We really blasted right through the good old days, and it did not feel that way at the time
Mike Bifulco
@mikebifulco.com
CTO and co-founder @ Craftwork (YC S23) 💌 Tiny Improvements for devs and founders: mikebifulco.com/newsletter Co-founder APIs You Won't Hate Former Google / Stripe / Microsoft Talking UX, react, rails, ☕ espresso, 🚴♂️ cycling 🪿 UNGOVERNABLE
I am feeling @kjaymiller.com's words in my bones lately. I don't work in devrel anymore, but I've been struggling to write and publish my dev/builder focused newsletter because... What's the point? kjaymiller.com/blog/my-devr...
My DevRel Limit: I might be cooked.
DevRel isn't cooked but I'm starting to think it's no longer cooking either.
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Who's thinking about PKM nowadays? I was a very heavy Roam Research user for a long time, and later shifted to LogSeq, and then Obsidian... But I never stopped taking networked notes. This is what keeps me organized, and means I don't worry about forgetting things.
So many incredible new people to follow in this starter pack - I feel like I am standing on the shoulders of giants here, no lie, but Developers who Write™️ are my people! go.bsky.app/AnM2t7r
I really love my Pixel 10 Pro, and usually I'd be very excited about a Pixel 11, but... Everything has gotten too damn expensive to keep replacing this thing each year without a great reason. $499 _after_ giving back my current phone is a whole lotta skrilla.
I see some of my SC teacher friends going back to work today. August 10 seems criminally early to end summer break. I hope it's an easy day, y'all 🫡
Dev friends who use MacOS - do you use something other than Docker Desktop for managing containers?
If you ever need evidence that we should be investing more in public education, join your local neighborhood facebook group. Reading comprehension, math & finances, collaboration, sharing resources... it's all there, and your least qualified neighbors will make themselves apparent.
Great feeling: waking up to a notification that someone bought a copy of Surviving Other People's APIs, the book I co-authored with my pal @philsturgeon.com for @apisyouwonthate.com leanpub.com/surviving-ot...
Surviving Other People's APIs
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Our small but mighty team of engineers shipped 350k lines of code last month. That is... bracing.
Hot take: you've only _partially_ launched an app if it's only available on IOS or Android. 2026 - gimme both.
I think the _un-edited_ world cup finals photo is the most interesting one. People aren't talking about this.
My little tuner project is gaining some traction with bassists - started putting together some SEO fodder to try to bring me more new friends. Turns out there aren't many 5-string bass tuners online, funny enough. guithub.org/articles/bas...
Use Guithub to Tune your 4, 5, or 6-String Bass | Guithub
A free online bass tuner for your 4-, 5-, and 6-string bass in a variety of tunings: standard, Drop D, Drop A, and half-step-down.
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One of OpenAPI's unsung heroes is its ability to be extended elegantly. You're gonna love @apievangelist.com's article on extensions. Also in this dispatch: Gin, the HTTP framework for Go, Upyo for sending email, Leaf Wiki, and the HTTP OPTIONS method. apisyouwonthate.com/newsletter/e...
Extending OpenAPI
One of OpenAPI's unsung heroes is its ability to be extended elegantly. Also in this dispatch: Gin, the HTTP framework for Go, Upyo for sending email, Leaf Wiki, and the HTTP OPTIONS method.
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One of the curses of being an engineer is that our work is never done. When it comes time for a rebuild, its always tempting to hit ⌘+n and start from a blank slate, but rarely a good idea. Let's talk about: the Strangler Fig Pattern 🌳 mikebifulco.com/newsletter/s...
The Strangler Fig Pattern: from v0 to v1 without losing your mind
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Now THAT is how you write a perfect headline. Good work @theonion.com theonion.com/tj-maxx-adds...
TJ Maxx Adds Meat
FRAMINGHAM, MA—In an effort to provide customers with an ever-wider variety of merchandise at steep discounts, executives at TJ Maxx announced Tuesday that the off-price retail chain had begun selling...
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There is a silent threshold you'll cross on your path from MVP to a stable product business - you go from being a prototyper to an operator. There is very little documentation about what it's like to be an operator of XYZ service... and the game definitely changes at some point.
Being wrong is human. Being wrong and STAYING wrong can be _stupid_ expensive. Learning to be wrong productively is a great skill for demonstrating leadership mikebifulco.com/newsletter/c...
Cognitive Debt and the Cost of Staying Wrong
Being wrong is unavoidable. The real damage comes from allowing a bad assumption to shape everything you build on top of it.
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HTTP Query is suddenly all over my feed. You'll also find it in the @apisyouwonthate.com newsletter, thanks to @alexanderkaran.bsky.social 🙏 tl;dr - time to clean up those read-only POST actions, there's a new verb in town! apisyouwonthate.com/newsletter/h...
Query Is Here
A fresh new HTTP method makes a big splash in the API world. Also in this newsletter, OpenAPI Python, GraphQL 17, Portman, and API Governance with OpenAPI
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🚨 My boo Natalie is 10 SUBSCRIBERS AWAY from her YouTube channel reaching 10,000! What a huge milestone... Who's gonna be lucky number 10k? YouTube.com/@primaryfocus
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🖍 The Parent's Guide to Elementary School Hi, I'm Natalie, a former elementary school teacher and founder of Primary Focus. I created this channel to help parents of preschool through 5th grade confid...
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Leaflet is doing great work out here! 🫶🏼
Leaflet@leaflet.pub · 3mo ago👀 who's gonna be our 5,000th follower???
Who are the baddest-assest-n8n automators on BlueSky? I'm getting into some hijinx this afternoon and could definitely benefit from having people-smarter-than-me to learn from
It's really exciting for me to see so many people building software for the very first time - bumping into vibe-coded apps from people who have never written a line of code, imagine that! Are you working on a vibe coded project? I'd love to see it.
Canceled my paid plan with Cursor today. Bummed to see them acquired by SpaceX.