@dhh shares his favorite book authors for business topics: - Gary Vaynerchuk (garyvee) - Jim Rohn - (Tony Robbins)

I must capture @dhh's favorite programming books before they vanish into the recesses of my memory: - Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns - Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture - Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code - Programming Ruby

When fiddling with CSS and Flexbox I find myself going to this CSS Tricks page: https://t.co/TJkH1z5RVP Such a good resource!

Is it reasonable to outsource software development? In most cases NO. https://t.co/FUHOC8FR8F

The trailing slash in URLs like /foo/bar/ is a detail that strikes me again from time to time. Some web servers treat /foo/bar and /foo/bar/ as the same URL. Yikes! Did you know that ///// is a valid URL? It means that each path segment is the empty string. 🫨

Lately I've heard that Europe should emancipate itself from US software monopolies. Many, if not all, big food suppliers here are organized as cooperatives. They leverage the fact that together they are stronger than one could ever be. Is this doable for software?

It is good to see that the "SQL is bad for logic" discussion is not over and easily revived by a post https://t.co/BlHhGrxHOs

Memoization vs Caching: Memoization is a specific form of caching that involves caching the return value of a function based on its parameters. https://t.co/hDB88BISZb

I'm building a website to promote my AI Virtual Assistant MVP. @Julian's landing page building advice is my life saver. I'm really greatful for his concise write-up that serves me well as a go-to resource.

Just seen something like this: "2000-01-01T17:33:12.456Z".replace("Z", "") I think that it's an often repeated shortcut where a different solution would be appropriate.

DDD: Reasoning about the persistence of domain entities and hiding their state https://t.co/SdUvcbGGts

For the first time of my life that I don't have a "steady and guaranteed" income at the end of the month. I have 8 month to become self-sustaining with my business because I don't want to be in an office ever again.

How do you bring a junior developer into your companies mindset? Simply tell them how you would do it. https://t.co/nyxaHbGoFJ

Cold calling 101: Intro "Hi Mr. Doe, I'm Ewald, good afternoon!" The 2nd greet at the end is crucial because it provokes a response from your prospect which is the entrance to positive conversation.

From gut feeling I'd say "soft deleting" database records in relational databases is bad (most of the time). Looking at this SO post it seems that the dev community is slowly swinging from a 50/50 opinion towards favouring "soft delete is bad". https://t.co/ORxxQ1WVx1

Reda has a controversial stance on REST API versioning which is "do no versioning". I can see a point in his reasoning because my past experience on versioning APIs is similar to his. https://t.co/aPw5bss3Gg

How complicated can human names possibly be? https://t.co/IOuS5FQEd1 Pretty complicated and there is no one best solution for every use case.

C might not be the trendiest language, but if you're like me and curious about how Nginx does C, their developer guide is a fascinating read. https://t.co/ZsvNDBAjML

Functional programming is slowly getting wider spread. I'm also learning a lot from it especially that it accomplishes the same in less code. Still the terms of functional programming are like Klingon. Here's breakdown for normies like me: https://t.co/c9iyrX5VcC

Litestream is a great invention to back up SQLite databases in a streaming fashion. Compared to timed snapshots almost no data is lost in a disaster case. What causes me thinking are 22 open pull requests and almost no commit activity in the last 2 years 🫤