Applied Cartography
Ashland, 2025
Three apps that will not change your life
July, 2025
Have you at least tried asking?
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Post-Watch
The year of mint chimichurri
VC-subsidized tokens
Clerks
June, 2025
Nine months in
Justfiles are great
Whisperglass
The Thomas Crown Affair
Colocating your pytest fixtures
Replacing screenshots and videos with iframes
Spring, 2025
Performance improvements can be obvious and silly in retrospect
Smoke test your Django admin site
Recursive filter schema
Does that dependency spark joy?
HQ1
Naughty vs. nice
YOLO-squashing our Django repository
Humane Inc.
What Gives
February, 2025
What's in a name
Becoming Trader Joe
Truncating timedeltas in Django
January, 2025
Order, Tailwind, DRY
Linear
buttondown.com/alternatives
Hypermodern Django
Bluesky is good
November, 2024
Letters to a Young Bartender
Hidden settings are for cowards
Fathom
Klarna: nineteen years, twenty billion kroner
A good H1
Shipping is capturing value
Applied Cartography × Val Town
VC does not guarantee PMF
October, 2024
Bozos
Meta's two assets
Projects are things with steps
Notebook as marketing primitive
My approach to GTD and PKM
Consider the data product
You should build this:
Migrating to Django 5
Applied Cartography × People & Blogs
Talking to customers
Notes on Zed, revisited
Two weeks of parenthood
Applied Cartography × Indie Rails
September, 2024
Always use an enum for your status field
Why your marketing site should be separate
MD5-based uniqueness constraints in Django
Notes on 'Founder Mode' / Lieutenancy
Keeping a technical edge
How Buttondown uses HAProxy
Notes on buttondown.com
Using Cursor to port Django tests to pytest
Improving Django's default pagination performance
Peak Newsletter
Incumbency
Content debt
Against Against Innovation Tokens
Pytest: test for print statements
Typesafe routes in Vue
Notes from May
The taste of beer
Why can't you just...?
Git one-liner: get the earliest commit from X hours ago
Notes on ActivityPub
Auth.js + Square
Au revoir, Invoke
Grace notes
44%
How shadcn/ui examples work
Things take time
Use Rails
Notes from April
Finding null JSON values in Postgres
You need to be frictionlog-maxxing
You gotta be able to taste the kool-aid
Stripe Sessions 2024
Weird test: internal link checking
Tailwind black magic: swallowing all pointer events
Tailwind black magic: styling paragraphs within tables
Why should a company?
Are monopolies bad, actually?
Is cool enough?
PSA: mess around with Keystatic
Globals in Histoire
Notes on Zed
PSA: mess around with Kolo
Vibes and years
You should use Helpscout
11ty
Buttondown Analytics 3.0
Gosling’s Old Rum
Migrating someone who's on Stripe Connect Express
Mass renaming files in fish on macOS
Postgres batch enqueuing in ten lines of Django
What follows GitHub?
August, 2025
Goodwill
Onboarding survey, one week in
Django forever