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Tech Recommendations, 57 posts
View all Tech RecommendationsDaily reading recommendations: the best things I found on the web.
These three go together, and I’d read them in this order. Sebastian Bergmann, the creator of PHPUnit, builds a single argument across all three: test suite speed used to be a developer-experience problem, and it just became a security problem too. Turbo-Charging…
These are four links I expect to use in real projects. Laravel Pennant: A Practical Guide to Feature Flags: This hands-on guide to Laravel’s first-party feature flag package covers the parts that tend to cause trouble. It shows how Feature::for($user->team) scopes flags…
I keep coming back to this group because every author shows their work in unusual detail. I Ported Kubernetes to the Browser: Sam Rose generated almost 100,000 lines of TypeScript with LLMs to build webernetes, a partial Kubernetes port that runs entirely…
A short one to close out the technical picks: two tools for your daily setup and one piece of theory worth internalizing about load balancing. Oh My Posh Visual Configurator: A drag-and-drop builder for your terminal prompt: arrange segments, preview in real…
A cluster about the content web: building it, generating it, and making it legible to crawlers and models, starting with a roundup of minimal WordPress themes. 20+ Best Free Minimal WordPress Themes: Speckyboy’s roundup is exactly what it says: a curated list…
Essay Recommendations, 25 posts
View all Essay RecommendationsEssays and opinions on subjects I care about.
Should You Leave Red Herrings About Yourself Online?: For most people, scattering fake biographical details online is a weak way to confuse data brokers. Brokers merge public records that cannot be fictionalized, ten planted lies cannot compete with years of automated collection,…
Five essays that all circle a similar question from different angles: what happens to your own thinking when you outsource the hard, effortful part of it. Starting in the Analog Domain: Stoyan Stefanov sees the same pattern in music composition and “vibe…
The essays in this pair are smaller in scope than the last group, but they hit close to home if you build things for a living. The Slow Death of the Power User: This essay argues that two decades of platform design…
Three essays about the same underlying question, approached from very different angles: who controls the infrastructure we depend on, and what happens when nobody’s watching closely enough. Now We’re Getting AI Fake News Complaining About How AI Fake News Is the Death…
A closing batch about where the work, and the money, is heading, from the codebase out to the economy, including whether small software businesses survive AI. Addy Osmani’s The New Software Lifecycle pulls the ideas that matter out of a Google whitepaper…
You can use temporary download URLs for your cloud storage resources to prevent unwanted access. For example, when a user wants to download a file, we redirect to an s3 resource but have the URL expire in 5 seconds
This one is for the cases where you may not want to use your incremental DB id in your url. So if now you have something like example.com/1 , you can use this package and encode your id to look like example.com/Dfs24…
Took me 10+ years to discover that form elements have a “form” attribute And can be used outside of the parent <form> element natively With this, when you submit the form, the form data will contain the select that has the :form…
I recently needed to add columns to an existing table in a Laravel project and I had to reach to this functionality, hope you find it helpful:
I was looking into date filters for a project I am working on and I thought I would share the filter helper class I am now using, it may be of some use to someone out there: First seen at: https://x.com/mmartin_joo/status/1671518854101475330
Two silly, scary tales of small-town horror by Laura Hubbard (bookpage.com)
bookpage.com/features/small-town-horror-comedy-novels
Disaster is still better than AI by Jason Polak (jasonpolak.substack.com)
jasonpolak.substack.com/p/disaster-is-still-better-than-ai
Eucalypt Wallpaper Collection by Basic Apple Guy (basicappleguy.com)
basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/eucalypt
Ireland fact of the day by Tyler Cowen (marginalrevolution.com)
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/11/ireland-fact-of-the-day-8.html
Write mo’ by Dave Rupert (daverupert.com)
daverupert.com/2026/11/write-mo
The role of engineers in the software factory by Cate Huston (cate.blog)
cate.blog/2026/11/03/the-role-of-engineers-in-the-software-factory
Chris’ Corner: Doin’ Stuff in CSS by Chris Coyier (blog.codepen.io)
blog.codepen.io/2026/11/02/chris-corner-doin-stuff-in-css
Making features generic in CSS by Rachel Andrew (rachelandrew.co.uk)
rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2026/11/02/making-features-generic-in-css