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The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work

May 26, 2023 7:11 am Published by Comments Off on The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work

When you are first starting out with a new idea, often the advice is given to "build the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) of your idea". But sometimes the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) of your idea can be a little ambiguous. Do you need user management? Integrations with other apps or APIs? A mobile app? Which core app features do you build and which ones do you put aside? What does "minimum viable" mean in the context of your idea? The lines are often fuzzy, and the phrase "MVP" does not always help you draw the lines clearly around which features are important to ship and which ones are not.


How To Add HTTP Basic Auth to Next.js

March 9, 2023 2:14 pm Published by Comments Off on How To Add HTTP Basic Auth to Next.js

To add HTTP Basic Auth to a Next.js project, we need to write some custom middleware and configure it. This post shows you how!


How To Access Raw Body Data with Next.js

February 13, 2023 4:46 pm Published by Comments Off on How To Access Raw Body Data with Next.js

Sometimes with a Next.js API endpoint, you need to parse the raw body data your own way. This is a minimal working example of an API endpoint route for Next.js that will get the raw request body for payload signature verification and also parse it into JSON for your own implementation uses.


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The Lottery Factor

November 30, 2021 4:31 pm Published by Comments Off on The Lottery Factor

A lot of folks use the phrase “bus factor” to illustrate a single point of failure that relies on an... View Article


Shopify

Joining Shopify

November 1, 2021 9:24 am Published by Comments Off on Joining Shopify

Today is my first day at Shopify as an Engineering Manger on the Hydrogen team building the future of Custom... View Article


Clubhouse's Total Addressable Market

Clubhouse Is the Future of Talk Radio

February 11, 2021 7:19 pm Published by Comments Off on Clubhouse Is the Future of Talk Radio

Clubhouse - and the audio social network model it pioneered - is the future of talk radio.


BudgetSheet

August 25, 2020 2:38 pm Published by Comments Off on BudgetSheet

BudgetSheet is your own bank transactions in your own spreadsheet so that you can budget your own way. That’s the... View Article


Increasing in Relevance

May 20, 2020 5:25 pm Published by Comments Off on Increasing in Relevance

The #1 question I ask myself before starting any new side project idea or startup venture: “Is this increasing in... View Article