Archive

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills in web development.

My Ramblings This Week

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

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills in web development.

My Ramblings This Week

What have you been up to lately?

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills in web development.

My Ramblings This Week

How do you keep your knowledge fresh?

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills in web development.

My Ramblings This Week

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

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills in web development.

My Ramblings This Week

I tried to freelance on Upwork. It sucked.

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills in web development.

My Ramblings This Week

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

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills in web development.

My Ramblings This Week

This week, I sent Alexis King the following message:

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills in web development.

My Ramblings This Week

Do you think in (static) types?

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills in web development.

My Ramblings This Week

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.

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills in web development.

My Ramblings This Week

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

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills in web development.

My Ramblings This Week

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

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills in web development.

My Ramblings This Week

What do you do?

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

My Ramblings This Week

What are your controversial takes?

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

My Ramblings This Week

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

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

My Ramblings This Week

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

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

My Ramblings This Week

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

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

My Ramblings This Week

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

~me (to medical doctors)

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

My Ramblings This Week

Not me: How do I learn functional programming?

Me: Learn Elm.

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

My Ramblings This Week

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

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

My Ramblings This Week

What’s the programming language you hate the least?

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

My Ramblings This Week

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

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

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

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

My Ramblings This Week

From Wikipedia (emphasis is mine)

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

My Ramblings This Week

TypeScript. Oh, TypeScript.

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

My Ramblings This Week

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.

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

My Ramblings This Week

How many times have you coded the same stuff?

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

My Ramblings This Week

I’m tired of Ruby.

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

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

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

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.

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

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.

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

My Ramblings This Week

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

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

My Ramblings This Week

What’s your favorite ice cream flavor?

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

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).

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

My Ramblings This Week

Would you be willing to give me a hand?

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

My Ramblings This Week

What question do you answer in your commit messages?

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

My Ramblings This Week

How do you keep yourself motivated to keep up with your habits?

Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

My Ramblings This Week

What do you think about the following fix I deployed this week?

Welcome to my . A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

Welcome to my . A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

Welcome to my . A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

Welcome to my . A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

Welcome to my . A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

Welcome to my . A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

Welcome to my . A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

Welcome to my . A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

Welcome to my . A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

Welcome to my . A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

Welcome to my . A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

Welcome to my . A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.

Welcome to my . A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.