I've seen a fair number of small indie developers say they're afraid of expressing their opinions online due to fear of being cancelled. Overall I think this is a pretty unwarranted fear and in this post I'll explain why.

Why indiedevs shouldn't fear being cancelled

I’ve been part of the internet startup scene for a while. There are so many different camps: the bootstrappers, the VC-backed tech-bros, the crypto “investors”,

My product is my garden

To make it so that anyone with a web browser can code on Replit, our backend infrastructures runs on preemptible VMs. That means the computer running your code can shutdown at any time! We've made it really fast for repls to reconnect when that happens. Despite our best efforts, though, people had been seeing repls stuck connecting for a long time.

Killing Containers at Scale

No more queuing and waiting for pipeline results, merge trains will speed up your deployments while making sure master stays green.

How merge trains keep your master green

I firmly believe the Internet, and what it stood for, peaked with RSS.

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