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Exiting Technology Projects

2023.01.06 – As I’m starting a few new projects, I’m revisiting this guide from Keith Porcaro and friends on how to shut down tech projects. It’s always a good idea to begin with the end in mind!

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Breaking up with JavaScript Frontends

2023.01.04 – I really enjoyed this presentation from Henning Koch, the author of unpoly.js about replacing React/Vue/Angular with the much, much thinner unpoly library.

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Building for Longevity

2023.01.03 – I thoroughly enjoyed this post from Seth Etter on building technology for longevity.

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Government Domain Name Rationalization

2022.12.09 – Ana Monroe shared this workshop that GSA performed to rationalize its wide assortment of domain names. Government agencies typically have lots of different vanity domain names for new programs, and it makes it very hard for people to find these programs as a result.

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Basecamp Moving Out Of The Cloud

2022.11.01 – I generally don’t like to repost DHH, but I saw this morning that Basecamp is moving out of the AWS Cloud because it’s not cost effective for them. For those of y’all who have read my Cloudbusting and Cloud Strategy Guide articles, this should sound familiar.

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Run Your Own Social Network

2022.11.01 – With the implosion of Twitter, it’s a good time to revisit this post from Darius Kazemi on some of the philsophical aspects of running a Mastodon (or Hometown) server for your friends & colleagues!

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