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Who's got two thumbs and shipped her first of 12 startups in 12 months on schedule? That's right, this girl. In its first week, the Blogging for Devs Community reached $5K in revenue through a combination of lifetime deals, subscriptions, and my first eve

What would you do if I gave you $1 million today on the condition that you invest it entirely in the stock market? First off, you'd probably find someone who knows way more about investing and get some professional advice. But in lieu of that, you'd divid

Let's be real: most developers decide what to blog about on a whim. Our blogs cover tons of topics, and there's a good chance that the only person interested in ALL of them is, well, us. That's just one reason it's handy to tag and segment subscribers to

If you maintain an open-source project, there's a good chance the pull requests you receive need a little bit of work before they're ready to merge. Here's a quick step-by-step guide for how to modify commits on a pull request when it's coming from a fork

After dragging myself out of what I'm dubbing the quarantine slump (namely, playing 100+ hours of Animal Crossing, re-watching Children of Men, and concluding that I'm probably not inside a simulation), I finally published @mlent/gatsby-theme-help-center.

I've read thousands of resumes and CVs during my 3+ years as a hiring manager at a high-growth tech startup. It's the same at many companies: Most applications land in the bin at the stage where your resume or CV is all the company knows about you. The re

Next year, I'll be entering my 10th year of being formally employed to write code. Ten years! And besides actual employment, for nearly 2/3 of my life, I've been building things on the web. I can barely remember a time in my life where I didn't know HTML,

I've grown a lot over the last year at my job. Things are never really the same for long, and I've had a ton of different challenges to tackle - both on the technical side, but in a growing proportion on the side of people management and technical leaders