Your least educated neighbors and relatives voted for this

We're definitely skipping SOTU, right? Literally anything else is a better use of your time.

No matter how good I get at DevOps, it's always a new nightmare when things start to break. Neat.

Building software means falling in love with the process of building something and then _rebuilding_ it. Once that realization hits, it becomes very meditative 🧘 mikebifulco.com/newsletter/l...

API Developers debate the benefits of REST vs JSON-RPC when working with LLMs. Also in this newsletter: the politics of building APIs, FastAPI's continued growth, a comparison of serverless cold start times, and more! apisyouwonthate.com/newsletter/r...

Spent nearly all of yesterday trying to debug an expo app that silently froze on its splash screen in production. A very long, very frustrating day- and while I'm not confident I understand why things broke, I now have a much better grip on the process to investigate/debug expo apps while they run.

In our world, a stable product is not a finished product. It is simply a product that now requires a different kind of care. mikebifulco.com/newsletter/j...

Landing in your inbox in about an hour - a rumination on fixing stability problems, and the maintenance part of the product lifecycle.

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

Say it ain't so

This year, my work shifted from "write code" to "orchestrate systems." mikebifulco.com/newsletter/d...

One of my tasks this week: become an expert on how Google Ads revenue reporting should work, end to end. I've always felt like it's a specialist domain -- but it's time to learn. Anyone have any recs for people to follow? Particularly experts in local search ads for service businesses.

Putting together my 2026-flavored tools-i-use post this weekend. My how things have changed in the past year... mikebifulco.com/newsletter/d...

Making lots of new friends thanks to this starter pack. If you're a dev writer / video maker / devrel, I'd love to follow you! Hit me with a reply👋

Craftwork is hiring: we're looking for a design-minded product engineer with experience in local services. This is a contract role for the next 2-3mo. Relevant Stack: Next.js, Tailwind, Typescript, PostHog, Google Ads. www.ycombinator.com/companies/cr...

Screentime... but less toxic?

I am stoked as heck that there is a fresh new openapi.tools live and out in the world. Shout out to my @apisyouwonthate.com pals for getting it done! 🚀 apisyouwonthate.com/newsletter/o...

Our team at Craftwork recently opened expanded to Raleigh, and I’ve been enjoying learning how the city’s neighborhoods tell very different stories. Today I want to talk about Historic Oakwood.

Every time we use our local library, we are supporting access to free resources for everyone. Sign-up for a library card and see what your branch has to offer. 📚 Learn more though @amlibraryassoc  #LibraryCardSignUpMonth #library

I'm out here vibe coding in a different stratosphere

So Craftwork just expanded to Raleigh - and I'm having a great time learning about the neighborhoods and history that shape the city. One of those is Mordecai.

YTMND was such an odd part of meme history

People attach to products in 3 steps: marketing -> first use -> proven value Rather helpfully, this maps well to the cue-response-reward pattern for building new habits. Definitely some useful psychology to understand. mikebifulco.com/newsletter/z...

Golden hour with the two wild beasts living in my home 📸 x100vi

Agents, subagents... dev work is changing so quickly, it's a very interesting wave to surf. Lots of our old skills are now commoditized. There will be an important shift from coding to communication for lots of engineers. That's a huge career change for many of us

I've been thinking a whole lot about longevity and happiness. mikebifulco.com/newsletter/h...

Everyone has impostor syndrome, pt. 3107828: I was tagged in a post on LinkedIn as part of the "Stripe Mafia" (lol) -- because of Craftwork's fundraise from last year. I do not feel like I belong on this list, for sure. As a bonus - this has made my inbox on LinkedIn even less useful...

Tagging other devs who write or folks who write for developers 👀 @mooreds.com @jonathanyeong.com @emgoto.com @cassidoo.co @previnder.com @whitep4nth3r.com @jamie.schembri.me @mikebifulco.com @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social @sia.codes @tomaszgil.me @gabortill.com @jeremias.codes @laurentkempe.com

Just set up a messijo keyword for my site - will it find posts about my most recent newsletter? 👀

I recently learned about `pnpm patch` - and have already used it a couple times to work through temporary bugs in libraries that may have blocked me otherwise. mikebifulco.com/posts/patchi...

You've spent your whole career skipping straight to code... it's time to stop. mikebifulco.com/newsletter/n...

Been thinking about Dieter Rams a whole lot lately. His 10 rules for design are no-brainers for anyone building... anything? mikebifulco.com/newsletter/d...

So: counting clicks isn't a good measure of a design. But what is? The answer, unsurprisingly, is "it depends". But you should be able to pick goals and measurements that _are_ good indicators of how well your feature is working. mikebifulco.com/newsletter/b...

"Too many clicks" isn’t your problem. It's a signal that your design isn't getting the job done. Clarity, confidence, and cognitive load are the real culprits.

I've had exactly 1 experience with Notion's new offline mode, and I'm ready to turn it off forever.

I've been going down some statistics rabbit holes lately - I never took stats in school, and have always found it a bit counterintuitive.

Slack changes its API rate limits, another sign that the web is becoming more closed off due to LLMs. Ktor is giving you even more reasons to use it, all that and more in this issue of the @apisyouwonthate.com newsletter. apisyouwonthate.com/newsletter/a...

My first product launch failed - and it would have been _so easy_ to avoid. In the end, smpl was acquired, but it could have had a dramatically different trajectory. Headed to 💌 Tiny Improvements readers' inboxes later this morning 👇

Hello, @clt-urbanists.bsky.social 😍

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Heavyweight: An Art Project About Lawyer Vibes I am so hopeful that @mattcameron.bsky.social will talk about this incredible work of art on @openargs.bsky.social This has 🪿BECOME UNGOVERNABLE 🪿 written all over it! kendraalbert.com/2025/07/21/l...

Tiny Improvements👇

Where are the expo experts at? I'm working on upgrading Craftwork's app to Expo 53, and am considering using expo-maps (alpha) for a fairly basic map feature. Anyone have experience with that? Curious to know how much this is used in production apps right now. docs.expo.dev/versions/lat...

I cannot believe we're debating the value of investing in education. I've been stewing over this one for the past few days. mikebifulco.com/newsletter/p...

Something about detailed, compute-based stats analysis of baseball really makes me sad about the way people watch sports

I feel confident in saying that Craftwork is the only paint company in the world that serves up our very own llms.txt craftwork.com/llms.txt

American EVs are so disappointing. Rather than quick, efficient, and nimble, we're selling gargantuan hulking nightmares.

Every month, when I am reconciling expenses, I am so grateful Adobe didn't buy Figma.

Teams that plan for data access and caching from the start build faster, more reliable APIs than those who bolt it on in a panic later. apisyouwonthate.com/newsletter/d...