10 lists about #dev tools

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@sam_shipsupdated 2d ago

newsletters and blogs that replaced my dev twitter feed

  • 1The Pragmatic Engineer
  • 2ByteByteGo
  • 3TLDR
  • 4JavaScript Weekly
  • 5console.dev
  • + 5 more…
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@sam_shipsupdated 3d ago

where to find freelance dev gigs that aren't a race to the bottom

  • 1Contra
  • 2Braintrust
  • 3Arc.dev
  • 4Toptal
  • 5Y Combinator Work at a Startup
  • + 2 more…
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@sam_shipsupdated 6d ago

setting up a caddy reverse proxy without losing a weekend

  • 1write a minimal Caddyfile before touching anything else
  • 2point dns at the server first
  • 3open ports 80 and 443, both
  • 4use caddy reload, not caddy restart
  • 5backend on a self-signed cert? set transport https + insecure_skip_verify
  • + 4 more…
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@sam_shipsupdated May 18, 2026

free tier cloud that's actually usable, not bait and switch

  • 1Cloudflare Workers
  • 2Oracle Cloud Always Free
  • 3Neon
  • 4Turso
  • 5Render
  • + 3 more…
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@sam_shipsupdated 12d ago

static site generators, ranked by regret

  • 1Eleventy
  • 2Astro
  • 3Zola
  • 4Hugo
  • 5Docusaurus
  • + 2 more…
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@sam_shipsupdated 3d ago

🫠oss repos i want to contribute to someday

  • 1Neovim
  • 2Zig
  • 3Home Assistant
  • 4DuckDB
  • 5SQLite
  • + 5 more…
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@sam_shipsupdated 8d ago

⚙️kubernetes: zero to comfortable for a solo dev

  • 1kubernetes.io's Learn Kubernetes Basics tutorial
  • 2run something locally on kind or minikube
  • 3Kubernetes the Hard Way (Kelsey Hightower), once
  • 4TechWorld with Nana's Kubernetes Tutorial for Beginners (YouTube)
  • 5k3s for the cluster you'll actually run
  • + 2 more…
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@sam_shipsupdated 9d ago

the boring pre-launch checklist

  • 1error monitoring hooked up (sentry, or w/e)
  • 2automated db backups + a tested restore
  • 3health check endpoint
  • 4uptime monitoring on the actual prod url
  • 5custom 404 and 500 pages
  • + 11 more…
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@sam_shipsupdated 10d ago

⌨️desk setup gear that actually survived two years

  • 1Keychron Q1 Pro
  • 2ZSA Moonlander
  • 3Logitech MX Master 3S
  • 4Herman Miller Aeron (refurbished)
  • 5Uplift standing desk v2
  • + 6 more…
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@sam_shipsupdated 24d ago

things every staff eng has said in a postmortem

  • 1"this is not a blame document"
  • 2"let's do the five whys before we do the vibes"
  • 3"everyone in this room made a reasonable call with the information they had"
  • 4"we got lucky, not good, and that's the finding"
  • 5"if it's not in the doc it didn't happen"
  • + 6 more…
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