Markdown Cosplay: How MDX Ruins Everything Markdown Got Right
MDX isn't Markdown. It's a React application wearing a .md extension like a fake mustache.
claylo
Building tools for developers. Rust, CLI, open source.
Latest posts
Hello Again, World
What started as a blank Astro site is now shipping agent-written release posts, per-project RSS feeds, and building tools in the open.
Fundraising Lessons from The Gambler
Read the signals, know when to walk away, and don't confuse rapport with a check.
JFL
Six months of perfecting everything except shipping -- just put something out there.
RESTful Routing, LocationMatch, ForceType and SetHandler
Let Apache handle routing instead of burning CPU cycles in your app.
Failure Is Not An Option
The AWS EC2 outage and the tradeoffs you actually need to think about before it happens.
Where There Are Clouds, It Sometimes Rains
Cloud infrastructure goes down -- build for fault tolerance or deserve the outage.
Winning Some, Losing Some
A timeline of wins, losses, and draws from high school to Jexy -- proof that scrappy persistence beats a clean record.
OMFGAuth
OAuth's promise of a simple standard has failed -- do what's right for your use case.
Disconnecting Facebook and Twitter
Cutting the tweet-to-Facebook bridge because nobody there asked for my soapbox.
On Continuous Deployment
What continuous deployment actually requires, and why most companies never retrofit it.
The Anticipation of Interruption
The mere expectation of being interrupted kills maker-mode depth.
Bullshit Talks, Code Walks?
More pull requests, less mailing list chatter -- most projects would kill for that problem.
Howdy, Tumblr
Moving to Tumblr because the people I want to read are already here.
Talk More, Hate Less
Talk to the humans at a startup before rage-building an open source competitor.
My Fitbit May Be Gone
Lost my Fitbit and don't care -- no API killed the enthusiasm loop.
Still Looking for a Blog Home
WordPress is out, Squarespace mobile sucks, and tumblr URLs are an embarrassment.
Operation Hackbutt
Two premium ergonomic chairs at a hackathon, because crappy chairs kill output.
Free Beer in Atlanta
Mashery recruits PHP devs at php|works with free beer and a shot at an iPod Touch.
PHP Did Not Cause Facebook Code Leakage
Facebook leaked source code because of a config error, not because PHP is broken.
Build a Cool App
Stop building frameworks and start building apps with the ones that already exist.
Why not PHP 5?
PHP 5 has been out for three years and 80% of sites are still on PHP 4 -- what gives?
Stop Writing Loner Applications
Your app isn't the only one on the server. Build for coexistence or get out of the way.
Teaching by Example
Om Malik leaves Business 2.0 to start up -- now let's see if his own startup playbook holds up.
Thank you, Feedster
Departing Feedster after eight months, grateful for the team and the rewrite.
Guest Blogging is Spam
Guest blog posts are unsolicited bulk messages your subscribers never asked for.
On Guest Blogging
If you've got nothing to say, say nothing. Don't hand your blog to someone else.
Feedster Gains Some Killersoft
Joined Feedster as Senior Software Engineer and rewrote their entire PHP frontend in PHP 5.
Walk the Walk Before Talking the Talk
Professional development is about discipline and humility, not frameworks and flame wars.
Coal and Switches in Zend's Stocking This Year
Zend Studio can't handle PHP 5.1.1 or Firefox 1.5, and The PHP Company doesn't seem to care.
Why PHP Will Never Have Rails
PHP has too many cooks and too much history for any one framework to unify the community like Rails did.
Release Your Next Project as a PEAR 1.4.0 Package
How to turn any PHP application into a PEAR 1.4.0 installable package, phpMyAdmin included.
Fashionably Late
First blog post. Better late than never.
Change Your Life with Version Control: An Introduction to Subversion
A ground-up introduction to Subversion for PHP developers who've been putting it off.