@sam_shipsupdated 2d agonewsletters and blogs that replaced my dev twitter feed1The Pragmatic Engineer↗2ByteByteGo↗3TLDR↗4JavaScript Weekly↗5console.dev↗+ 5 more…22100💯1Follow
@sam_shipsupdated 3d agowhere to find freelance dev gigs that aren't a race to the bottom1Contra↗2Braintrust↗3Arc.dev↗4Toptal↗5Y Combinator Work at a Startup↗+ 2 more…96100Follow
@sam_shipsupdated 6d agosetting up a caddy reverse proxy without losing a weekend1write a minimal Caddyfile before touching anything else↗2point dns at the server first3open ports 80 and 443, both4use caddy reload, not caddy restart5backend on a self-signed cert? set transport https + insecure_skip_verify+ 4 more…18100Follow
@sam_shipsupdated May 18, 2026free tier cloud that's actually usable, not bait and switch1Cloudflare Workers↗2Oracle Cloud Always Free↗3Neon↗4Turso↗5Render↗+ 3 more…340300Follow
@sam_shipsupdated 12d agostatic site generators, ranked by regret1Eleventy↗2Astro↗3Zola4Hugo5Docusaurus+ 2 more…145201Follow
@sam_shipsupdated 3d ago🫠oss repos i want to contribute to someday1Neovim↗2Zig3Home Assistant↗4DuckDB5SQLite+ 5 more…62101Follow
@sam_shipsupdated 8d ago⚙️kubernetes: zero to comfortable for a solo dev1kubernetes.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…41201Follow
@sam_shipsupdated 9d agothe boring pre-launch checklist1error monitoring hooked up (sentry, or w/e)2automated db backups + a tested restore3health check endpoint4uptime monitoring on the actual prod url5custom 404 and 500 pages+ 11 more…38201Follow
@sam_shipsupdated 10d ago⌨️desk setup gear that actually survived two years1Keychron Q1 Pro2ZSA Moonlander↗3Logitech MX Master 3S4Herman Miller Aeron (refurbished)5Uplift standing desk v2+ 6 more…211201Follow
@sam_shipsupdated 24d agothings every staff eng has said in a postmortem1"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…95100Follow