Despite choosing AWS for our product's infrastructure, I still wanted the high development velocity you get when using Heroku.

Recreating Heroku's Push-to-Deploy with AWS

In February of 2021 I was asked to do a technical evaluation for a startup. The team had 7-10 engineers but lacked senior technical leadership, and the investment team and CEO wanted to make sure they were on track. I've sent this to a few other fractional CTOs who found it helpful, and maybe you will, too.

Technical Evaluation of a Startup

My earlier posts about using Vim were well received and it's about time for an update. I've been doing a lot more work with Vim lately and have spent some time configuring my workflow for peak efficiency, so here's a snapshot of my current state.

Vim After 15 Years

What a response! The original "Vim After 11 Years" post was very popular, and it prompted a lot of good responses on Hacker News and Reddit which were peppered with useful tips and plugins I didn't know about. I compiled all of them along with some additional tips from friends and coworkers, then tried a lot of them out, and finally distilled it for you here. Enjoy!

Everything I Missed in "Vim After 11 Years"

Fast forward eleven years. I've written many different languages and used Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, TextMate, and Flash Builder. I even used Emacs for a year just to see what I was missing. But when it was time to start a company I knew that an early priority would be to bang out code quickly, so I chose the best tool for the job.

Vim After 11 Years

This is a three-part monologue on how I built a WebGL game with very little experience in programming 2D graphics. In four days I was able to turn an idea into a game with cute ducks that my friends' 7-year-old daughter enjoyed.

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