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FEELS
EssaySep 29, 2020

What it feels like when you've found product-market fit

Stories from the founders of Netflix, Uber, Airbnb, Substack, Stripe, Datadog, GitHub, Segment, Dropbox, Superhuman, Instacart, Nextdoor, and many more

Lenny's Newsletter · Lenny Rachitsky

TILS
EssaySep 27, 2020

5 TILs about Node.js Fundamentals from the Node.js Design Patterns Book

5 Things I Learned about Node.js Fundamentals from the Node.js Design Patterns Book

swyx

REST
EssaySep 23, 2020

REST Endpoint + CRUD with AWS Lambda and DynamoDB in 2 minutes

A lightning fast overview of everything you need to know to set up a REST endpoint with full CRUD capability with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB and AWS Amplify in 2 minutes.

swyx

NOTES
EssaySep 16, 2020

Notes from Amir Shevat on Measuring & Managing Developer Relations

Notes from an a16z podcast about developer relations that I thought was valuable

swyx

TYPESAFE
EssaySep 15, 2020

Typesafe, Fullstack React & GraphQL with AWS Amplify

This is the blog version of a talk I am giving at React Summit 2020

swyx

BOOK
EssaySep 14, 2020

Book Review - Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

One of the greatest autobiographies by a business icon and great writer

swyx

NOTES
EssaySep 13, 2020

Notes on Adversarial Interoperability

Summarizing thoughts from Seth Godin and Cory Doctorow on Interoperability

swyx

AGAINST
EssaySep 9, 2020

Against Namespacing Personal Sites

I care a lot about creating Cool URIs so I have been paralyzed more than I should be about what I'm calling "URL Architecture". In true fashion, I'm blogging about it.

swyx

SET
EssaySep 8, 2020

How to Set Up SvelteKit with Tailwind CSS

A quick 3 step guide for myself on how to set up Svelte with Tailwind CSS

swyx

SELL
EssaySep 7, 2020

If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money

My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book

swyx

PLAYBOOK
EssaySep 1, 2020

A playbook for fundraising

Practical advice for navigating the fundraising process by Marc McCabe

Lenny's Newsletter · Lenny Rachitsky

CREATE
EssayAug 29, 2020

How to Create Luck

Your entire worldview changes when you realize you can create luck.

swyx

PUTTING
EssayAug 28, 2020

Putting your Keyboard on Steroids with Karabiner Elements

I did a livestream with John Lindquist from Egghead.io today, and he blew my mind on how much mileage you can get out of your keyboard!

swyx

FIRST
EssayAug 25, 2020

First Look at AWS Amplify Flutter (Developer Preview)

AWS Amplify launched a Flutter Integration, so I thought I would record a quick video and blogpost

swyx

EssayAug 21, 2020

Cheatsheet for moving from Master to Main

Notes I have collected on how to renaming the Git default/primary branch

swyx

EssayAug 17, 2020

Prerecording Talks for Online Conferences

swyx

EssayAug 15, 2020

Developer Exception Engineering

swyx

REALTIME
EssayAug 12, 2020

Realtime Offline-First Chat App in 100 Seconds

swyx

EssayAug 12, 2020

A Developer's Guide to Startup Fundraising

swyx

QAAPOSS
EssayAug 10, 2020

5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book

swyx

FAVORITE
EssayAug 4, 2020

My favorite product management templates

Lenny's Newsletter · Lenny Rachitsky

MODELING
EssayAug 1, 2020

Modeling a Wealth Tax

Paul Graham

NOTES
EssayJul 28, 2020

Notes on "Growing a Language"

swyx

THINGS
EssayJul 26, 2020

4 Things I Learned from Mastering Mongoose.js

swyx

LANDING
EssayJul 23, 2020

8 Landing Page Tips from Rob Hope

swyx

QAAPOSS
EssayJul 23, 2020

8 Q&A's for Bootcamp Students in 2020

swyx

EssayJul 23, 2020

Unofficial VS Code Snippets for AWS Amplify

swyx

EssayJul 17, 2020

Semi-Automatic npm and GitHub Releases with `gh-release` and `auto-changelog`

swyx

TODAYS
EssayJul 7, 2020

How today's fastest growing B2B businesses found their first ten customers

Lenny's Newsletter · Lenny Rachitsky

LESSONS
EssayJul 3, 2020

Lessons and Regrets from My $25000 Book Launch

swyx

EssayJul 1, 2020

Launching the Coding Career Handbook!

swyx

ORTHODOX
EssayJul 1, 2020

Orthodox Privilege

Paul Graham

FOUR
EssayJul 1, 2020

The Four Quadrants of Conformism

Paul Graham

EssayJun 26, 2020

Versioned Docs in 30 Seconds with Amplify Console's Branch Subdomains

swyx

NOTES
EssayJun 19, 2020

Notes on RSI for Developers

swyx

EssayJun 18, 2020

#HeyForGood

swyx

LIFE
EssayJun 14, 2020

My Life as a Con Man

swyx

QAAPOSS
EssayJun 11, 2020

4 Q&A's on Blogging for Developers

swyx

GOOD
EssayJun 9, 2020

What is good retention?

Lenny's Newsletter · Lenny Rachitsky

MAKING
EssayJun 2, 2020

Making AWS Amplify work with Rollup

swyx

BRINGING
EssayMay 29, 2020

Bringing AWS to App Developers

swyx

THIRD
EssayMay 20, 2020

The Third Age of JavaScript

swyx

WORKING
EssayMay 18, 2020

Working The Reverse 9 to 5

swyx

SLACK
EssayMay 17, 2020

Slack is Fumbling Developers

swyx

IE11
EssayMay 13, 2020

IE11 Mainstream End Of Life in Oct 2020

swyx

BIGGEST
EssayMay 12, 2020

How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users

Lenny's Newsletter · Lenny Rachitsky

DAY
EssayApr 27, 2020

The Day I Became A Software Engineer

swyx

EssayApr 22, 2020

Developer's Guide to Tech Strategy

swyx

CLOUD
EssayApr 21, 2020

Cloud Distros

swyx

OSI
EssayApr 15, 2020

OSI Layers for Coding Careers

swyx

STRATEGY
EssayApr 14, 2020

Strategy and tactics for increasing conversion

Lenny's Newsletter · Lenny Rachitsky

MARKET
EssayApr 13, 2020

How to Market Yourself

swyx

IAPOSM
EssayApr 10, 2020

I'm Writing A Book!

swyx

THINGS
EssayApr 7, 2020

5 Things I Learned from The DynamoDB Book

swyx

THIS
EssayApr 7, 2020

This newsletter is growing up 🌱

Lenny's Newsletter · Lenny Rachitsky

USE
EssayApr 5, 2020

How to Use class instead of className with Preact and TypeScript

swyx

WANT
EssayApr 4, 2020

Want Better Design/CSS Skills? Spot the Difference!

swyx

UNRESET
EssayApr 4, 2020

How and Why to Un-Reset Tailwind's CSS Reset

swyx

INSTANT
EssayApr 3, 2020

Instant GraphQL with OneGraph

swyx

USE
EssayApr 3, 2020

How to use Web Components with Next.js and TypeScript

swyx

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