We built and released a tiny little project: disposables.app, a free tool for easily checking whether or not an email address domain is disposable or otherwise problematic. buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...

After a year of being a full-time dad, I'm looking for what's next. With a career in fintech, SMB and dev tools. I've built products, shipped code and managed teams as both a designer and director. I'm looking for small teams with conviction to be profitable. Building low and slow. jonathontoon.com

After ~10 years of in-house design leadership, I'm going back to my roots as an independent designer. If you need: - 0 → 1 design partnership - Mentorship, coaching, or design org design - Early stage design strategy, especially in AI and Fintech Get in touch: hello@mu.design

From @asmartbear: Having skipped to the last page of other people's books, we forget the rest of the journey. And, that we have to take that journey, too. longform.asmartbear.com/drudgery/?ut...

Invention is Drudgery

Having skipped to the last page of other people's books, we forget the rest of the journey. And, that we have to take that journey, too.

longform.asmartbear.com

- If you make a mistake in your code model, you will get a bug in your code. If you make a mistake in your framework model, you will get a bug in your code. If you make a mistake in your domain model, you will spend days or months writing the wrong code www.seangoedecke.com/debugging/

Just re-discovered these Programming Principles I wrote down in a note called "Mission Statement" years ago. I still think I stand by them 100%?

Added new Parcel React Server Components examples with Deno and Bun! You can use any server/runtime you want. Parcel just builds your code. github.com/parcel-bundl...

[New Blog Post] The Lo-Fi Art and Human Tools Era pketh.org/the-human-to...

Wrote a short article on why the modern Request/Response API is so much better compared to node:http . marvinh.dev/blog/modern-...

The modern way to write JavaScript servers

The Request/Response-API is not just faster, but also makes writing tests easier.

marvinh.dev

buttondown.com/blog/develop...

Developer marketing is show and tell

Tell them what you’re going to ship. Tell them what you’ve shipped. Tell them what others have shipped with your tool.

buttondown.com

early goings, but this might be my single favorite internal tool ever

If you're exploring Fastify for the first time or looking for a well-organized codebase to learn from, check out this example crafted by one of Fastify's co-authors:

GitHub - delvedor/fastify-example: This project is a small but feature complete application build with Fastify and Svelte, and it aims to show all the core concepts of Fastify, best practices, and rec...

This project is a small but feature complete application build with Fastify and Svelte, and it aims to show all the core concepts of Fastify, best practices, and recommendations. - delvedor/fastify...

github.com

'Full-stack React framework' is just SSR + 'look, a database connection!' Like calling instant noodles a gourmet meal because you added an egg.

Slowly migrating from Django Rest Framework to Django& Django Ninja for improved type-safety and better API performance at buttondown

Slowly migrating from Django Rest Framework to Django& Django Ninja for improved type-safety and better API performance at buttondown

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