Reading list #10

Citizens of the internet, greetings! 🖖🏽

Stuff I wrote

• I recently went through a platform migration on goosebumps.fm, and boy was that a journey. Here are some retro notes.

Borrowing from The Missing Readme:

If you want to rewrite code or diverge from standards, your improvement must be an order of magnitude better. Small gains aren’t enough; the cost is too high. Most engineers underestimate the value of convention and overestimate the value of ignoring it.

• Will Larson on migrations

Podcasts

Got a handful of episodes to share this week.

• Corey Quinn and Gitpod CTO in conversation about standardised remote dev environment
• Very closely related is Dax showing his remote dev setup
• Jon Cutler on surviving organisational politics
• Soft Skills Engineering is a weekly advice podcast for software developers. - This is one of the shows I listen to on a regular. They’re 400+ episodes in - so have a scroll, find a title that resonates, and dig in🙌🏽
• Always a good vibe to hear from Chris Coyier & Dave Rupert. What stuck out from Episode 647 for me was Slash pages vs wikis vs blog posts.

Videos

• Matt Pocock goes over Vercel’s AI SDK. Solid intro to the topic
  • Scott Moss via frontendmasters does deeper dives into building AI powered apps. Tap in
• Tailwind v4 is stable! - biggest change being the CSS first config

Blogs

• Will Larson - Friction isn’t Velocity. Found and read this one while writing this week’s newsletter. That’s one thing I enjoy about writing, it naturally leads to more reading
• Stay SaaSy - Management Mantras
• Webpage annoyances I don’t inflict on you here - Love it when I bump into an old school blog like this. You can tell this is done for the love of the game, not much else.

As I said 7 months ago:

If you're trying to get shit done, choose boring stuff

• Choose boring technology by Dan McKinley- This one’s also on my reading list, would be nice to get to it this week.