All recommendations
Curated articles, tools, and resources from creators who actually use them.
A weekly routine for staying informed without burning out
Staying informed is not the same as keeping up. The first is a goal; the second is a treadmill. The information environment is cal...
A short reading list for curious people
Reading lists are usually too long. The compiler wants to seem well-read, the reader wants to seem ambitious, and the result is a...
Notes on staying focused in a noisy week
The week starts with a clean schedule and ends with a feeling of having worked hard without finishing the things that mattered. Mo...
Why we publish recommendations instead of rankings
A ranking implies that the things being ranked are comparable on a single dimension, and that there is a correct order. Both impli...
The small joy of finding the right link at the right time
The internet sometimes feels like a place that has stopped delivering on its original promise. There's still good writing being ma...
The unsexy social media routine that actually grows accounts
Most social media advice is written for people who are already winning. Pick a niche, stay consistent, post valuable content — sur...
A checklist for product pages that actually convert
Product pages are where the money is decided, and most small stores treat them as a finishing task instead of the central design p...
How small stores compete on experience, not just price
Small stores almost never win on price. The math is unfair: scale buys raw material cheaper, advertising cheaper, fulfillment chea...
Why your next side project should be boring
The default mode for engineers picking a side project is "what's the most exciting thing I could build?" The answer is usually a h...
A pragmatic approach to refactoring legacy projects
Most refactoring advice is written for greenfield codebases that don't really need it. The legacy refactoring problem is different...
When to reach for a framework (and when to skip it)
Frameworks are productivity multipliers when they fit the work, and productivity dividers when they don't. The mistake we see most...
Reading source code is a skill you can practice
We talk about reading code less than we talk about writing it, which is strange because most professional developers spend more ti...