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Some tips for writing better makefiles

I did an interview on Software Sessions which was a lot of fun to record -- diving into how and why I like yak shaving (and why we need more people to do it).

I've spent hours that should have been minutes trying to make sure Rust doesn't re-build unnecessarily inside CI, so you don't have to.

STARTTLS on 587 isn't the future -- implicit TLS on 465 is, and people are misunderstanding

You should be using direnv to load your ENV variables per folder (project, etc). You can use it to dynamically load files, configure git, and more.

How to get at __dirname and package information inside ES modules.

Introducing Awesome F/OSS (awsmfoss.com), a newsletter that introduces an awesome free and open source project every day (including weekends!).

Was 2009 to 2022 the preamble of blockchain technology? With the ETH merge behind us, it may finally be the time for builders to approach Ethereum, guilt free.

Spent a couple days building an app that no one needs -- learned a valuable lesson in how much I don't know about the Apple ecosystem.

I remember. I bought the most expensive one they made, right before the platform went bust.

AWS App Runner finally supports apex domains! Clearly Amazon also believes in shipping MVPs as fast as possible, and this one is finally ready.

pg_idkit is an extension powered by pgx that makes generating identifiers based on new schemes (UUIDv6, v7, v8, etc) easy.

It's never been easier to self-host your email. It's never been harder to self host your email.

Apparently it happens to everyone, big or small! So don't worry so much the next time you mess up some email configuration, or end up on a blocklist.

Service catalog seems to have quietly left the room. Gone but not forgotten, all aboard the operator hype train.

Slonik is a Postgres database driver for NodeJS and it's pretty awesome. You should check it out if you haven't already.

Yes, *that* kind of microphone -- the kind that are most commonly known to be used by employees of the military industrial complex.

If you're going to write a large component of a system, always write an interface even if it has one implementation.

One of the things I didn't expect from running a newsletter -- being excited to see

Here's a cool tool you may not have heard of before -- lstopo