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AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions are an absolute joy to use for glue code or personal projects. Deploys happen in less than a minute, they cost barely anything to run, and they cost nothing you’re not running them.
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Uploading your Google Calendar events to BigQuery
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How long is a customer waiting for reply?
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Were https://sentry.io/for/<PLATFORM> pages valuable?
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tl;dr don't be helpful, be useful
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Thoughts and experience after cold emailing 1,000 developers
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Thoughts on potential improvements to data tooling
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User journeys abstraction as a rollup table
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No company *has* a culture; every company *is* a culture. - Zero to One
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I’ve been setting up a Sigma-like replica of Stripe. However, unlike the Gmail API, the Stripe email isn’t built for data sync, but for…well, billing flows.
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Pricing decisions are multi-faceted (your product has an infinite number of potential pricing scheme and price points) and each part of the decision is susceptible to bike shedding.
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tl;dr SELECT * FROM user WHERE subscriptions & (1 << FLAG_POSITION)
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Following up on my last post and a Twitter exchange and of course, musing on commodity pricing, I decided to play around with Google Cloud Functions to see if it was a viable alternative to tools like Segment, Mixpanel.
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Things learned along while building FormEndpoint for $10/month.
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This year, I’m going to start cold emailing customers.
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Economics of building versus buying in the case of A/B testing tools
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Or things I've learned as a growth engineer at a SaaS company
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It’s best to define a job by the projects and their results. Projects vary by company, but results are generalizable across businesses (especially SaaS).
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Flask is my favorite server framework, due to its clarity and flexibility. However, getting Flask beyond “Hello, World” always feels iffy, with most popular online tutorials being several years old and having been built by educators instead of veterans.
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A predominantely self-taught application developer learns to deploy with Google Container Engine.
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Infrastructure, commodities, and margins.
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Notes on various GitHub API auth methods
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A well written piece on pricing by a SaaS founder
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If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
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A bit of admiration for Elon's breathtakingly simple, even naive, approach to The Boring Company.
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Disclaimer: I know very little to nothing about how investors value private companies. But I’ve never read an article that even attempts to do basic arithmetic around this, so I thought I’d write down my own thoughts.
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Musing on the long-term value of non-engineering roles.
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Why and what happens when you price yourself as a commodity.
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To those hooking into the internals of Jekyll, knowing a bit more about what each variable includes can be helpful.
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You see growth engineering in consumer tech (Facebook, Pinterest, Uber), but I’ve seen less of it for B2B SaaS, so one year in, I wanted to share my understanding of growth engineering as it fits into our business.
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Things I've learned from working on three major pricing changes.
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Taking note on why I live.
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Working in a startup, it’s easy to forget all the random things I’ve done. A brief retrospective.
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To stand on the nose of a dragon.
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I’ve found Gmail’s API surprisingly confusing, mostly because email was so clearly built in a time before JSON. The message payload is broken into parts, depending on the structure (attachments, images) of the email, each labeled with a different, poorly documented
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For analytics startup folks with prod access
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Reading through major S-1s, starting with Atlassian.
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We’ve been using Redash at Sentry lately. I’d never heard of it before (Mode being the frontrunner in this category), but it’s damned good so far. And before you ask me about Metabase, it’s a totally different use case.
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How to set up a keyboard shortcut for taking full page screenshots only using Homebrew and Automator.
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The journey from Tokyo to Kyoto might just be a quick nap on the Shinkasen Nozomi, but it could not be a more different side of Japan.
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Itinerary: Tokyo and KyotoMy Map
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Thoughts on nailing down and measuring the "golden path"
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Words said by famous, clever, or just talkative people.
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Really well put together talks on growth engineers. What it is, but just as importantly, what it isn't.
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I want it to rain.