As a rule I avoid entrepreneuria-media. There’s a sameness to the over confidant young sounding, white sounding voice these men choose to adopt that leaves me squicked out at best, and after a while you realize the way to have a career and life with some level of independence is to leave the media behind and start doing the work. Strategic caveats deployed, this episode of the Build your SaaS podcast is worth a listen, where host Justin Jackson interviews the creator of the Laravel programming framework, Taylor Otwell. The first reason to listen? Taylor talks actual numbers from his ..read more

I’ve been doing more backend NodeJS programming recently and I was pleasantly surprised to discover something new about a programming language I’ve been using for for over 20 years. Although, to be fair, the callback syntax I was asking about callSomeFunction(function heyLookANameForMyFunction(){ }); wasn’t valid in every browser for much of those 20 years. Also, I wasn’t ready for how pleasant it would be writing javascript and not having to worry about every browser invented since time immemorial. Something something old dog, tricks, etc ..read more