Engineering

by Erik Kuefler This article was adapted from a Google Testing on the Toilet (TotT) episode. You can download a printer-friendly version ...

The customer is the victim, not the program.

Have you ever heard of SEMA? It’s a fairly esoteric system for measuring how good a software team is. No, wait! Don’t follow that link! It will take you about six years just to understa…

The Real Cost of Server-Side Rendering: Breaking Down the Myths There’s a growing narrative in the web development community that Server-Side Rendering (SSR) is nothing more than an expensive …

The library for web and native user interfaces

A comprehensive guide to self-hosting Next.js in production with horizontal scaling, covering critical solutions for distributed caching, image optimization, reverse proxy configuration, and deployment challenges learned from real-world experience.

The phone buzzes at 3 AM. You roll out of bed, open your laptop, and see this in the logs: th…

Random code snippets, projects and musings about software from Eric Kidd, a developer and occasional entrepreneur.

As we prepare to launch a world-first app we've run into a problem. What is it? Apps are similar to books or music. They have genres. Strict rules that define who they are for, helping us, the consumer, not only discover them but share them. If I say, "I really like this band, their music is good, you'd like it." What reason do you have to listen to it? You get 'good' music recommendations every day. Unless you're emotionally invested in what I care about, you're not going to bother. But, if

The Ruby community can no longer afford to stand silent in the face of DHH and his toxic ideas.

Jay Graber dunks on Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning his name.

5 ways the Digital Inclusion Action Plan could be a bit more exciting.

Its a lot easier than you might think!

When evaluating content, pay extra attention to whom you recruit. Closely tailor tasks to your participants and get comfortable with silence.

The Model Context Protocol is driving a new wave of innovation in the world of AI. In this tutorial, I'll break down everything you need to know to get started.

Despite it being sold as the one true path, event sourcing comes with some pain points when you try to put its ideas into production.

When you go into a restaurant and you see a sign that says “No Dogs Allowed,” you might think that sign is purely proscriptive: Mr. Restaurant doesn’t like dogs around, so when he…

There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but let's focus on something more fundamental. What matters is the amount of confusion developers feel when going through the code.