Reading List
- Motivation Will Eventually Go Away: Build Accountability Systems Instead
Motivation eventually goes away. Here is how you can make sure you’ll consistently create the work you’re meant to create.
- Cognitive dissonance is a gift, not a curse
Ben Barbersmith
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24 Dec 2020
When we feel stressed or guilty because we know we should be acting differently, most of us ignore it and try to turn our minds elsewhere. Instead, we should focus on the dissonance and use it to change our behaviour for the better.
- A Svelte component to format numbers
Instead of 63476432, the component displays 64M.
- How to Kill a Unicorn
Chris Frantz
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14 Jan 2021
I took a deep dive on freemium pricing and decided to document it in this post. Why freemium? I think it’s how the little guys can win against market leaders. Basically, it’s how you kill a unicorn. Notion, Figma, Canva, Mailchimp, and Segment. What do all of these platforms have in common, besides being category leaders?
- Prove you can write regularly before you think about the tools
Do you actually want to write or do you just to be a person who writes?
- The Big Little Guide to Running Code in the Cloud(s)
There are now many ways to run code, from traditional servers to the new serverless to cutting-edge edge options. This guide evaluates many of the code execution offerings available across AWS, Google, Azure, Heroku, Fly and Cloudflare.
- Rust is a hard way to make a web API
Tom MacWright
It is not just the borrow checker
- Date Manipulation in JavaScript - A Complete Guide
Learn how to work with date and time on plain JavaScript and how date libraries can save you time.
- Dealing with Timezones in javascript
Josh Owens
I often write about Meteor.js specific topics, but today I am going to dive into a more general javascript topic - Timezones. I can already hear most of you, "Just use Moment.js because it makes handling time easy..." I agree, it does! But I am talking more specifically about dealing with timezones and offsets.