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PinkLetter - Taking the foot off the pedal (for a while)

When I started this newsletter, I had a specific goal in mind: keep my tech skills sharp while I worked in a product role—it was a success.

Every week, I spent hours reading the internet for the best content. I subscribed to dozens of newsletters and put aside blocks of time to skim through them and curate the best 3 pieces of the week.

However, I’m not a product developer anymore. Well, at the moment, I’m still thinking about what to do when I grow up, but that’s a story for another day…

There’s nothing worse than a todo on the list that you don’t do (and keep moving back). God forbid if you don’t even know anymore why that ticket is on your board!

#124
January 22, 2023
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PinkLetter - You may not know how to use TypeScript

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You may not know how to use TypeScript if you come from dynamic languages.

#123
December 18, 2022
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PinkLetter - problem -> solution -> encoding

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Programming is about encoding a solution to a problem.

#122
December 4, 2022
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PinkLetter - Ph.D. in spaghetti skyscrapers

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The notion that kids can beat us adults is not new.

#121
November 27, 2022
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PinkLetter - Code Retreat Krakow 2022!

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A couple of weeks ago, I had the privilege to co-organize the Code Retreat in Krakow with four fantastic folks. It was a success!

#120
November 20, 2022
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PinkLetter - When will this be done?

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If you are like me, the following question is something that can literally keep you up at night:

#119
October 16, 2022
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PinkLetter - How long has your editor been broken?

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You’ve prolly heard of the important vs urgent matrix:

#118
October 9, 2022
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PinkLetter - The day I almost met a Chilean television star

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What story from your past describes you?

#117
October 2, 2022
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PinkLetter - Make yourself lucky

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What if I told you that luck is a skill?

#116
September 25, 2022
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PinkLetter - Global Day of Code Retreat

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Did you ever participate in the Global Day of Code Retreat?

#115
September 18, 2022
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PinkLetter - Scratch your itch

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What itches of yours did you scratch building software?

#114
September 11, 2022
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PinkLetter - Transactional help

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I always thought of helping and being helped as a transaction: I help you and get a token, or you help me and I spend a token. I was so wrong!

#113
September 4, 2022
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PinkLetter - I quit my job. It was a mistake.

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Several months ago, I quit my job and went freelance. It was a mistake.

#112
August 28, 2022
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PinkLetter - Shamelessly sharing my hacks

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Tiny code experiments are the best way to learn.

#111
August 21, 2022
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PinkLetter - FOMO and imposter syndrome

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How do you balance FOMO and imposter syndrome?

#110
August 14, 2022
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PinkLetter - Two years of wisdom in one pdf

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I’m currently sweating under the sun in Portugal so I won’t ramble much this week.

#109
July 31, 2022
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PinkLetter - All over the place on the internet

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What have you been up to lately?

#108
July 24, 2022
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PinkLetter - Learning Css, Php, and JavaScript in one week at university

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How do you keep your knowledge fresh?

#107
July 17, 2022
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PinkLetter - Thank strangers on the internet

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When’s the last time you sent a thank you to a stranger on the internet?

#106
July 10, 2022
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PinkLetter - I tried Upwork. It sucked.

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I tried to freelance on Upwork. It sucked.

#105
July 3, 2022
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PinkLetter - TypeScript.tips

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When you write TypeScript code, do you start from JavaScript or from static types?

#104
June 26, 2022
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PinkLetter - Why retrofitting static types to JavaScript is hard

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This week, I sent Alexis King the following message:

#103
June 19, 2022
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PinkLetter - Make Bugs Impossible

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Do you think in (static) types?

#102
June 12, 2022
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PinkLetter - Blue Pill vs Red Pill?

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You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more.

#101
June 5, 2022
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PinkLetter - Learn the rules. Break the rules.

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If you are a newcomer, find an excellent mentor and mimic them until you internalize stuff.

#100
May 29, 2022
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PinkLetter - My girlfriend can't stop talking about her new hairdresser

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I’m obsessed with specialization lately. And you should too.

#99
May 22, 2022
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PinkLetter - What do you do (for real)?

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What do you do?

#98
May 15, 2022
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PinkLetter - What are your controversial takes?

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What are your controversial takes?

#97
May 8, 2022
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PinkLetter - Code What You Think

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My Ramblings This Week

How do you make people grok type-thinking or type-driven-development?

#96
May 1, 2022
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PinkLetter - Help me help the community grok type thinking

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Want to learn type-level TypeScript tricks while helping me research content?

#95
April 24, 2022
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PinkLetter - I'm late so you pay

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I worked with an agency that charged clients for time and materials. I hated it. Every. Single. Hour.

#94
April 17, 2022
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PinkLetter - Back to drinking beers

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My Ramblings This Week

I only drink whisky to keep healthy with diabetes. No worries, doc!

~me (to medical doctors)

#93
April 10, 2022
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PinkLetter - Want to get better at TypeScript? Learn Elm.

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My Ramblings This Week

Not me: How do I learn functional programming?

Me: Learn Elm.

#92
April 3, 2022
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PinkLetter - Have a cake and eat it too in TS?

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Ruby on Rails is such a good framework. There, I said it.

#91
March 27, 2022
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PinkLetter - The language I hate the least

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What’s the programming language you hate the least?

#90
March 20, 2022
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PinkLetter - Tiny TS type-level tricks to kick asses

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I’d love to hear your feedback about something I crafted: Thinking in TYPEScript—Tiny type-level tricks to kick asses (and runtime errors).

#89
March 13, 2022
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PinkLetter - Make friends at work

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Most of us can look the other way and ignore the news. This is privilege. Let’s not forget that.

#88
March 6, 2022
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PinkLetter - The detachment of abstractions

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From Wikipedia (emphasis is mine)

#87
February 27, 2022
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PinkLetter - TYPEScript

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TypeScript. Oh, TypeScript.

#86
February 20, 2022
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PinkLetter - Doing good enough is more difficult than doing great

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Let’s be honest, doing good enough is more difficult than doing great for people like us. There’s only one catch: doing great is more expensive.

#85
February 13, 2022
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PinkLetter - Manage complexity with shitty code

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My Ramblings This Week

How many times have you coded the same stuff?

#84
February 6, 2022
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PinkLetter - TypeScript may be good enough

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My Ramblings This Week

I’m tired of Ruby.

#83
January 30, 2022
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PinkLetter - Help them help you (and give them a prison tattoo)

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My Ramblings This Week

looks like no one cares about this repo and this project should just die and be deleted…

~ somebody in a GitHub issue

#82
January 23, 2022
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PinkLetter - Short feedback loops > planning

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My Ramblings This Week

Let’s be honest, you know little when starting a new project. And it has to be, otherwise it wouldn’t be new by definition.

#81
January 16, 2022
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PinkLetter - Internal projects need a maintainer too

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My Ramblings This Week

It’s 18:30 and I’ve been working since 10:00 on something that I estimated would take two hours.

#80
January 9, 2022
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PinkLetter - Thank you

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My Ramblings This Week

In this last PinkLetter of the year, I just wanted to thank you.

#79
December 26, 2021
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PinkLetter - Invalidate your brain cache

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My Ramblings This Week

What’s your favorite ice cream flavor?

#78
December 19, 2021
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PinkLetter - You got my support

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My Ramblings This Week

For an insulin-dependent diabetic like me, there are two things that really hurt: people who think they know better but don’t and the loneliness of struggling with something that is impossible to control (but can be managed).

#77
December 12, 2021
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PinkLetter - A chance to give back

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Would you be willing to give me a hand?

#76
December 5, 2021
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PinkLetter - Teach with your commit messages

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My Ramblings This Week

What question do you answer in your commit messages?

#75
November 28, 2021
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