Screen record more 2026/05/17

Buttondown no longer runs Redis 2026/05/15

Just aim the cannon correctly 2026/05/14

LLMs and Buttondown 2026/05/12

On self-updating screenshots 2026/05/08

April, 2026 2026/05/01

Four years in the maelstrom 2026/04/19

Write as you want to be heard 2026/04/10

Software never had a soul 2026/04/02

March, 2026 2026/04/01

A month of OpEx quick wins 2026/03/29

Why I'm a film blogger now 2026/03/27

What I would be doing 2026/03/16

Archiving the roadmap 2026/03/13

buttondown.com How Buttondown's API versioning works 2026/03/08

Self-hosting our GitHub Action runners 2026/03/07

The road to Pydantic V2 2026/03/04

Ascensions 2026/03/02

February, 2026 2026/03/01

Unshipping Keystatic 2026/02/28

buttondown.com How we check every link in your email 2026/02/28

Scattered thoughts on LLM tools 2026/02/24

Golinks 2026/02/23

Improper nouns 2026/02/22

Changelog mornings 2026/02/21

More weird tests 2026/02/21

Maybe use Plain 2026/02/20

Subpaths vs. subdomains 2026/02/18

Outgrowing Django admin 2026/02/17

Notes on "Harness Engineering" 2026/02/16

The death of software, the A24 of software 2026/02/14

Better tests 2026/02/14

Notes on "How I'd Grow Buttondown" 2026/02/13

One status field per model 2026/02/12

RIP XSLT 2026/02/11

Building a data greenhouse 2026/02/07

In praise of actions 2026/02/05

January, 2026 2026/02/03

Maturing your support function past a single engineer 2026/02/03

LLM as advance team 2026/02/02

Brief notes on migrating to Postgres-backed jobs 2026/02/02

Recent forays into developer productivity 2026/02/01

Every model should have a notes field 2026/01/20

Pure strategy 2026/01/20

Refactoring a product is tricky 2026/01/17

Migrating to PlanetScale 2026/01/16

Uses (January 2026) 2026/01/16

Obsidian for internal docs 2026/01/12

Terragon, Conductor, PyCharm 2026/01/11

newsletter.lowfalutin.co.uk Their values are stronger than yours 2026/01/07

10 questions 2025/12/30

Big Brother 2025/12/29

Bauhaus, by science or magic 2025/12/28

sitemaptorss 2025/12/28

mise hooks 2025/12/27

Avoid single-use variables 2025/12/27

Dotfiles 2025/12/24

How LLMs change my codebase 2025/12/23

buttondown.com 2025 (Buttondown) 2025/12/22

buttondown.com disposables.app 2025/12/22

2025 2025/12/21

Uses 2025/12/20

GitHub Actions' pricing changes 2025/12/17

Site 2026 2025/12/16

October, 2025 2025/11/09

Eucharist 2025/11/02

Picnic 2025/10/30

Cheetah II 2025/10/29

Vercel's abstractions 2025/10/25

Business as authorship 2025/10/23

Someone built it; someone has to build it 2025/10/16

Cheetah 2025/10/13

Adding imports to the Django shell 2025/10/10

Fixing CSS variables in Superhuman 2025/10/09

Hidden coupons 2025/09/29

September, 2025 2025/09/28

Weeknotes 2.0 2025/09/17

Pulumi 2025/09/13

Another reason our pytest suite is slow 2025/09/12

Why our pytest suite is slow 2025/09/10

63 postcards 2025/09/07

Django forever 2025/09/03

Onboarding survey, one week in 2025/09/02

Goodwill 2025/09/01

August, 2025 2025/08/31

What follows GitHub? 2025/08/29

Ashland, 2025 2025/08/20

Three apps that will not change your life 2025/08/15

July, 2025 2025/07/30

Have you at least tried asking? 2025/07/17

Post-Watch 2025/07/06

The year of mint chimichurri 2025/07/02

VC-subsidized tokens 2025/07/01

June, 2025 2025/06/29

Nine months in 2025/06/28

Justfiles are great 2025/06/27

Whisperglass 2025/06/26

Colocating your pytest fixtures 2025/06/22

Replacing screenshots and videos with iframes 2025/06/18

Spring, 2025 2025/06/01

Aqua Voice, text-to-speech, non-determinism 2025/05/15

Fatherhood 2025/05/10

Performance improvements can be obvious and silly in retrospect 2025/03/23

Smoke test your Django admin site 2025/03/08

Recursive filter schema 2025/03/02

Does that dependency spark joy? 2025/02/25

Naughty vs. nice 2025/02/19

YOLO-squashing our Django repository 2025/02/15

Humane Inc. 2025/02/14

What Gives 2025/02/10

February, 2025 2025/02/05

What's in a name 2025/01/27

Three Problems 2025/01/25

Vibe coding your way out of a SaaS contract 2025/01/22

Truncating timedeltas in Django 2025/01/09

January, 2025 2025/01/05

2024 2024/12/17

Order, Tailwind, DRY 2024/12/14

Linear 2024/12/13

buttondown.com/alternatives 2024/12/11

Hypermodern Django 2024/12/10

Bluesky is good 2024/12/05

November, 2024 2024/12/04

Letters to a Young Bartender 2024/12/03

Hidden settings are for cowards 2024/12/02

Fathom 2024/12/01

Klarna: nineteen years, twenty billion kroner 2024/11/23

A good H1 2024/11/22

Shipping is capturing value 2024/11/20

VC does not guarantee PMF 2024/10/30

October, 2024 2024/10/29

Bozos 2024/10/28

Meta's two assets 2024/10/26

Projects are things with steps 2024/10/24

Notebook as marketing primitive 2024/10/19

My approach to GTD and PKM 2024/10/18

Consider the data product 2024/10/17

You should build this: 2024/10/15

Migrating to Django 5 2024/10/13

Talking to customers 2024/10/09

Notes on Zed, revisited 2024/10/07

Two weeks of parenthood 2024/10/06

September, 2024 2024/09/29

Vendor outages 2024/09/12

Bluesky et al 2024/09/11

Always use an enum for your status field 2024/09/10

Why your marketing site should be separate 2024/09/08

MD5-based uniqueness constraints in Django 2024/09/01

RSS in Next 14 2024/09/01

Notes on 'Founder Mode' / Lieutenancy 2024/08/28

Keeping a technical edge 2024/08/25

How Buttondown uses HAProxy 2024/08/23

Notes on buttondown.com 2024/08/22

Using Cursor to port Django tests to pytest 2024/08/21

Improving Django's default pagination performance 2024/08/06

Peak Newsletter 2024/07/11

Incumbency 2024/07/06

Content debt 2024/07/04

Against Against Innovation Tokens 2024/06/30

Pytest: test for print statements 2024/06/23

Typesafe routes in Vue 2024/06/15

Notes from May 2024/05/29

The taste of beer 2024/05/27

Git one-liner: get the earliest commit from X hours ago 2024/05/19

Why can't you just...? 2024/05/19

Notes on ActivityPub 2024/05/18

Auth.js + Square 2024/05/16

Au revoir, Invoke 2024/05/14

Grace notes 2024/05/10

How shadcn/ui examples work 2024/05/07

Things take time 2024/05/04

Use Rails 2024/05/02

Notes from April 2024/05/01

Finding null JSON values in Postgres 2024/04/26

You need to be frictionlog-maxxing 2024/04/25

You gotta be able to taste the kool-aid 2024/04/21

Stripe Sessions 2024 2024/04/20

Two years as an independent technologist 2024/04/16

Weird test: internal link checking 2024/04/16

New words 2024/04/14

Why Buttondown isn't OSS 2024/04/11

defineModel is dope 2024/04/07

Tailwind black magic: swallowing all pointer events 2024/03/27

Tailwind black magic: styling paragraphs within tables 2024/03/25

Why should a company? 2024/03/23

Are monopolies bad, actually? 2024/03/22

Is cool enough? 2024/03/17

PSA: mess around with Keystatic 2024/03/16

On techno-optimism 2024/03/15

Globals in Histoire 2024/03/13

Notes on Zed 2024/03/06

Use weird tests to capture tacit knowledge 2024/02/29

PSA: mess around with Kolo 2024/02/28

Years are magic wands 2024/02/23

Vibes and years 2024/02/20

11ty 2024/02/14

You should use Helpscout 2024/02/14

Great essays 2024/02/10

Buttondown Analytics 3.0 2024/02/07

Gosling’s Old Rum 2024/02/03

Migrating someone who's on Stripe Connect Express 2024/01/09

Mass renaming files in fish on macOS 2023/12/13

Postgres batch enqueuing in ten lines of Django 2023/12/11

Befriending the Goon Squad 2023/07/08

Spoonbill (2016—2023) 2023/06/07

Bottles of Veuve 2023/01/19

2022 2022/12/25

2021 2021/12/25

2019 2019/12/25

Customer Support for Side Projects 2018/04/13

Generators are dope 2018/03/07

Enthusiasm 2018/03/03

A month with the AirPods 2017/09/30

How I cut my Webpack bundle size in half 2017/09/16

Not The Keynote You're Looking For 2017/09/11

Turning 25 2017/09/03

Creating a password validator component in Vue 2017/08/13

Side Projects: July 2017 2017/08/08

There are still dragons everywhere 2017/08/02

App sizes are under control, they just aren't under scrutiny 2017/08/01

The best podcasts 2017/08/01

A nice little list of valid and invalid email addresses 2017/07/21

So good it makes you angry 2017/07/18

Response Times 2017/07/15

Simply put 2017/07/14

Code Reviews 2017/07/13

In praise of bloat 2017/07/01

What Vue needs next 2017/07/01

namedtuple 2017/05/01

Forcing functions in everything 2017/04/29

Be a better employee, not a better programmer 2017/04/17

Developer experience is the ball game 2017/04/15

Shooting the Messenger 2017/04/06

A bigger pan 2017/03/09

Time is money, friend 2017/02/23

Waking up early 2017/02/15

Burnin 2017/02/11

Skyrim 2017/02/01

How liberal arts matters 2017/01/17

My favorite things of 2016 2016/12/30

A month with the new MacBook 2016/12/21

Floradora 2016/12/19

My walk home 2016/11/11

Hidden elevators 2016/11/03

A long week 2016/10/26

liquid-trinkets 2016/10/01

Why we redesign our blogs 2016/09/14

The Chipotle standard 2016/08/01

cottage 2016/08/01

ambience 2016/06/01

A month with the iPad Pro 2016/05/20

Listening to Chance 2016/05/14

Rome 2016/05/02

Notes for a younger programmer 2016/04/17

Subscription pricing is for valuable products 2016/04/13

Voice interaction and muscle memory 2016/04/07

Only compare you to you 2016/03/08

Having written 2016/03/02

UX Slang 2016/02/17

Books of 2015 2015/12/28

Packing as premature optimization 2015/12/23

Snippets from Virginia 2015/11/30

Your legacy code matters 2015/11/23

Why podcasts feel good 2015/11/15

What I miss about video games 2015/09/20

On a plane 2015/09/12

What lies under the bandaid 2015/08/12

In defense of keys 2015/08/01

Two weeks with the Amazon Echo 2015/07/11

porting-barback-to-swift 2015/06/01

Two weeks with the Apple Watch 2015/05/23

Moving 2015/05/17

Vine Street Market 2015/02/27

Tumblr 2015/02/10

Coalesce 2015/01/28

An average day 2015/01/24

Dieter Rams’ 15 questions 2015/01/11

barback-v23 2015/01/01

2014 2014/12/31

Crawling Tumblr with multiprocessing 2014/12/20

Coach marks and onboarding 2014/11/02

Simple empty states for UITableViews 2014/10/21

Using webassets with Pelican 2014/10/09

Ten lines of code 2014/10/01

Everything new is old again 2014/09/10

automating-app-store-screenshots 2014/09/01

Three stages of consumption 2014/08/06

python-inline-shenanigans 2014/08/01

Swift is like Frasier 2014/06/30

My favorite robots 2014/06/11

barback-v22 2014/06/01

How to make $10 on the App Store 2014/04/21

visualizing-seattles-911-calls 2014/04/01

48 hours in Iceland 2014/03/03

Trends in AV Club reviews 2014/03/03

better-beer-snobbery-through-data 2014/03/01

Old books in new places 2014/02/09

making-caves-with-cellular-automata 2014/02/01

visualizing-nfl-point-differentials 2014/02/01

analyzing-the-price-of-legos-with-python 2014/01/15

2013 in review 2013/12/31

How to send emails through Python and GMail 2013/12/29

Analysing Pitchfork using Pandas 2013/12/24

How to make $800/mo with three lines of code 2013/12/12

the-state-of-tech-recruiting-in-2013 2013/12/01

A gentle introduction to itertools 2013/11/29

2003 and things 2013/10/28

Depth and whitespace 2013/10/20

A mindset of abundance 2013/10/11

The John Byrd EP 2013/01/10