Reading List

Articles worth bookmarking. Newest at the top.

A Social Filesystem — Dan Abramov overreacted.io  What if social apps worked like a filesystem — your data lives in your folder, apps just reflect it. Structured records, open schemas, no vendor lock-in. “Apps don’t trap what you make with them.”

Fear Makes You a Worse Programmer — Julia Evans jvns.ca  Fear of breaking things creates local maximums — you stop improving code because changing it feels risky. The fix is tooling (tests, CI, staged deploys) plus a blameless culture that makes deploying not scary.

Choose Boring Technology — Dan McKinley mcfunley.com  Every company gets a few “innovation tokens” to spend on new tech — spend them on what actually matters. Default to boring, well-understood tools (MySQL, memcached, PHP) and save the novelty budget for problems that genuinely need it.

APIs — Guillermo Rauch linkedin.com  Why “just build the API” was the right thesis from React through AI agents — and why it matters even more now. The best companies hide enormous complexity behind simple APIs, and in the agentic era your software will be consumed by other software.

The Future of Chakra UI — Segun Adebayo adebayosegun.com  How Chakra evolved from a monolithic component library into modular design system infrastructure — Panda CSS, Zag.js, Ark UI, and the reasoning behind each split.