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Sell First

How to get your first customers, before you write another line of code. The exact framework I've used to sell every digital product I've made, sometimes before a single line of it existed.

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solidbook: An Introduction to the World of Software Design, Architecture & Testing

Get clarity. Uncover the unknown unknowns and learn the main topics from over the last 40 years of software design, architecture & testing.

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Testing Mastery

Master the first skill you should have been taught in school: testing. Takes you through the first two Phases of Craftship.

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The Software Essentialist

Become a confident crafter. Master the 80-20 of testing, design, architecture & strategy to write scalable, testable, flexible and maintainable code on any side of the stack. Takes you through all five Phases of Craftship.

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Your Flywheel Isn't Spinning YetThe Metaphysics
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The 5 Phases of Craftship (Why AI Amplifies Wherever You Already Are)The Phases of Craftship
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Two developers, same AI, opposite years — one terrified he's falling behind, the other having his best year yet. The difference is...
Agentic Coding Is a TrapThe Metaphysics
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The Power of CompositionEnterprise Node + TypeScript
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In this article, we explore composition: one of the 12 essentials of testing, design & architecture.
Temporal Decoupling: Why We Use Events & MessagesThe 12 Essentials
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What is it about events and event-based architectures that make them work so well?
Tension Seeking Resolution (The Law of Polarity)The Metaphysics
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98% of Developers Use React as a Framework, Not a LibraryFrontend
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React is a view layer library but most developers use it as a framework. Let's look into why that is and the implications of it.
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Enforcing Coding Conventions with Husky Pre-commit HooksTooling
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In this guide, we'll learn how to setup Husky to prevent bad git commits and enforce code standards in your project.
Domain-Driven GraphQL Schema Design using Event StormingGraphQL
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A GraphQL schema is a declarative, self-documenting, organization-wide API. It's pretty important to spend a little bit of time on...
How Apollo REST Data Source Deduplicates and Caches API calls [Deep Dive]GraphQL
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Apollo's REST Data Source does a lot more than you'd think behind the scenes, and that's why it's recommended instead of using a w...
How to Setup a TypeScript + Node.js ProjectTypeScript
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In this guide, we walk through the process of creating a TypeScript project from scratch with cold-reloading, and scripts for buil...
Where Do Domain Events Get Created? | Domain Driven Design w/ TypeScriptDomain-Driven Design
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In this post, I explain how good ol' fashioned encapsulation + TypeScript getters and setters enable us to effectively create Doma...



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