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Writing 101 for developers

The superpower of the 21st century is writing. It's the alchemy of organizing and transmitting ideas. The core of any creative work. Here is a 101 introduction to my writing process.

Programming literacy: learn new languages and paradigms

10 days ago

#58

Entity Component System to make game dev fun again

17 days ago

#57

Game dev, functional programming, and Entity Component System

24 days ago

#56

The database is coming to the client

1 month ago

#55

My top 3 skills to learn as a software developer

1 month ago

#54

Event sourcing, local-first, and distributed state

1 month ago

#53

Coding for fun (and only later for profit)

2 months ago

#52

Building a type-safe bridge between client and server

2 months ago

#51

Best practices for writing code you won't regret

2 months ago

#50

A new golden era for tooling on the web

2 months ago

#49

Open source will make you a better programmer

3 months ago

#48

My struggle with data storage for web apps

3 months ago

#47

Waiting for a breakthrough: Client, server, and local-first

3 months ago

#46

Meta skills of a professional software developer

3 months ago

#45

The State of Local-First

4 months ago

#44

Everything is a state management problem

4 months ago

#43

Error handling is key: here is how to do it (well)

4 months ago

#42

The story of why I made an Effect course (out now!)

4 months ago

#41

State management that scales with state machines

5 months ago

#40

The origin of bad code, and how to fix it

5 months ago

#39

How (and why) I became obsessed with type safety

5 months ago

#38

How I built a new platform with all the latest libraries

5 months ago

#37

What I learned about writing technical articles on the web

5 months ago

#36

How to achieve type safety from client to server

6 months ago

#35

State management in React is a solved problem

6 months ago

#34

My experience at the biggest React conference worldwide

6 months ago

#33

Building blocks of any Frontend app

6 months ago

#32

What is Local-First?

7 months ago

#31

Server components: Closing the gap between frontend and backend

7 months ago

#30

My vision for the perfect coding tutorial

7 months ago

#29

The future of building web apps is here

7 months ago

#28

Everything, anything, everywhere with Typescript

8 months ago

#27

Why everyone is talking about Effect

8 months ago

#26

Core principles for software that scales (in practice)

8 months ago

#25

Frameworks and libraries I use for my web and mobile projects

8 months ago

#24

Architecture and libraries to implement a web app

8 months ago

#23

How I got into Functional Programming

9 months ago

#22

Advanced Dart to build Effect: fpdart v2

9 months ago

#21

How maintaining an Open Source project looks like

9 months ago

#20

Effect systems: Functional Programming to the next level

9 months ago

#19

How I learn a library by reading code

10 months ago

#18

Effect Days: The beginning of a new era

10 months ago

#17

4 Principles for all programming languages

10 months ago

#16

Actors and State Machines will solve State Management

10 months ago

#15

I built a framework: M(e)nimal static site generator

11 months ago

#14

How I build a cross-platform app: zero to release

11 months ago

#13

Under-engineering: less dependencies, more features and performance

11 months ago

#12

What State Management is all about (in practice)

11 months ago

#11

Contribute to Open Source: complete process step by step

1 year ago

#10

How I learn a new library (when documentation is not enough)

1 year ago

#9

How to create a State Management library

1 year ago

#8

State management with XState State Machines and Effect

1 year ago

#7

What I learned making a game in 2 days

1 year ago

#6

Learn Functional Programming with OCaml

1 year ago

#5

CLI application with Functional Programming using fpdart

1 year ago

#4

Effect + NextJs + ConvertKit: the future of Typescript

1 year ago

#3

Timeless programming: learn not a language, learn the principles

1 year ago

#2

2 skills for the 100 years - Writing and coding

1 year ago

#1