If you’re like me, then you’re a big fan of Google Cloud Run. Why? You can run pretty meaty workloads for free; a perfect choice for hobbyists, weekend hackers, indie developers, and small shops. With just a small Dockerfile, you’re ready to ship.

A Mastodon post got me thinking about TypeScript and why some developers end up throwing their hands up when adopting it. My conclusion is that it starts at the very name: “TypeScript” and a misconception that it is simply statically typed JavaScript. It is not. TypeScript is not a statically…

A comment on a Hacker News thread on a Business Insider article titled It’s not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore got me thinking about my experience with switching to Mastodon and why I have found it a refreshing experience.

Over the past three years, I’ve left behind a 10-year stint leading an engineering team building enterprise, commercial SaaS for customers — like Novo Nordisk and Boehringer-Ingelheim — and dove head-first into the VC-backed startup world as well as working on my own startups like Turas.app. During that time, I’ve…

For working with LLMs like ChatGPT, you may not need the full structure of the page; you probably just need the text content on the page. For example, if you’re running a summarization of a blog post or article. The easiest way to extract this in your browser is to…

.NET source generators provide a framework level utility to dynamically generate source code both at dev time and build time — whether that’s whole classes, individual functions (using C# partial classes), or strongly-typed runtime bindings. If you’ve come across it in passing but never really understood the use cases, then…

A Medium story first popped in to my feed last year and it got me thinking about the state of how the tech industry interviews and evaluates candidates. Recently, a friend shared with me his plans to take some time off to study for common leetcode problems to practice as…

Probably the most memorable course in my computer science curricula was CS431: Software Engineering at Rutgers. The course detail website describes the class as such: The course studies the problems, methods, processes and tools involved in the development of large software systems that are reliable and maintainable, and meet their…

If you’re a weekend hacker or seeking to stand up a no-cost, low-maintenance, low-ops solution that requires an SSR component, then Nuxt.js …