Articles by Liriel
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GitHub's Fake Star Economy (awesomeagents.ai)

1

Tracing a Slow Request Through Your Django App (appsignal.com)

8

WireGuard VPN developer can't ship updates after Microsoft locks account (techcrunch.com)

1

Monitoring Express Route Performance with AppSignal (appsignal.com)

2

Making the Case Against Markdown (hackaday.com)

2

Developers Should – and Shouldn't – Use LLMs in Our Development (tighten.com)

2

What Metrics to Monitor in Your Vibe Coded App (appsignal.com)

1

Study: Sycophantic AI can undermine human judgment (arstechnica.com)

1

MSA on memory issues with AI-a [pdf] (github.com/evermind-ai)

1

Monitoring Your Node.js App Health on Fly.io (appsignal.com)

1

Engineering Guide for AI Enterprise Coding Tools (qa.tech)

2

How Open Source Companies Make Money (literally.dev)

4

AI Dev Tool Stack for 2026 (qa.tech)

1

How to nurture and scale a developer community – podcast episode (reo.dev)

1

Lessons Learned from Building an SDK (hatchet.run)

4

Is Cloudflare Down Again?

6

What's Wrong with Kubernetes Today (devzero.io)

1

We Solved Multi-Language SDK Documentation Chaos Without LLMs (hatchet.run)

1

Developer Content Marketing Metrics and Interactive Charts (literally.dev)

2

Linux 6.18 Non-MM Pull Request: "A Mere 150x Speedup Was Measured (phoronix.com)

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Honest review of Lovable from an AI engineer (medium.com/firebird-technologies)

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Build ClickHouse-Powered APIs with React and MooseStack (clickhouse.com)

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If I hear "design pattern" one more time, I'll go mad (purplesyringa.moe)

2

Dirty Pirate Metrics, a new version of Pirate Metrics for open-source builders (literally.dev)

1

Podcast – AI Hottakes from the Stay Saasy Crew (staysaasy.com)

3

Swedish startup unveils Starlink alternative (thenextweb.com)

1

Activation Functions in Neural Networks (adaline.ai)

4

Trust Technical Writers, Not LLMs (literally.dev)

2

Handling Background and Foreground States for Reliable Notifications (clix.so)

2

Viteval – an LLM evaluation framework powered by Vitest (viteval.dev)

1

Playwright for Beginners: Quick-Start Automation (qa.tech)

5

Developers Don't Want to Talk to Your Sales Team (literally.dev)

1

From Prompt Engineering to Context Engineering (adaline.ai)

1

Fear of deployments is the largest tech debt (aviator.co)

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Farewell to Michael Ryabushkin (feldroy.com)

2

Performance Reviews Matter (staysaasy.com)

11

How to run cron jobs in Postgres without extra infrastructure (wasp.sh)

3

ReactOS, an Open Source Take on Windows (thenewstack.io)

1

Agentic AI: Powerful but Fragile – What You Need to Know (thenewstack.io)

82

Persuasion methods for engineering managers (manager.dev)

1

Product Hunt doesn't work, but you should still use it (opensaas.sh)

1

PHPverse 2025, a free online event celebrating PHP's 30th anniversary (stitcher.io)

1

AI and the Fatfinger Economy (pluralistic.net)

3

Stop Overengineering Your Multi-Tenant Architecture (directus.io)

1

ClickHouse and OpenTelemetry (clickhouse.com)

2

A 1KB Front End Library in Just 135 Lines (github.com/sera-js)

3

TechGirlz Is Dead, Long Live TechGirlz (likeagirl.io)

3

Wasp (Y Combinator) raised $3.7M Seed to glue together web dev tools (techcrunch.com)

1

Why Building Mobile Apps Is So Much Harder Than It Looks (thomashanning.com)

1

Whole Architecture Weekly content is free now (architecture-weekly.com)

1

Wasp Launch Week #9: The road to 1.0 (wasp.sh)

1

KubeCon Europe London 2025 – 27 open-source projects you should check out (northflank.com)

1

Tips from a Senior React Developer (frontendjoy.com)

1

A Gentle Introduction to Database Migrations in Prisma with Visuals (wasp.sh)

4

JavaScript's Missing Link: Wasp Offers Full Stack Solution (thenewstack.io)

2

How many hours can you code? (thecodist.com)

6

They lied to you, building software is hard (toddle.dev)

3

I Quit Web3 (coinsbench.com)

3

Going from an Idea to MVP in Weeks: PromptPanda's Launch(es) (opensaas.sh)

2

The manager I hated and the lesson he taught me (blog4ems.com)

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[flagged] Y Combinator Rejected This Framework 2 Times, Now It's Trending on GitHub (hackernoon.com)

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Going from an Idea to MVP in Weeks: PromptPanda's Launch(es) (opensaas.sh)

2

The Hardest Part of Working at a Growth Startup (staysaasy.com)

2

The 23-year-old who infiltrated a North Korean laptop farm (sashaingber.substack.com)

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The Case for Minimal WordPress Setups (smashingmagazine.com)

2

Interview with Marko Saric, Co-Founder of Plausible (Open Source Analytics) (opensaas.sh)

5

Semaphore CI is now open-source (github.com/semaphoreio)

2

You're Eroding Accountability (staysaasy.com)

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Semaphore is Going Open Source (semaphoreci.com)

3

Notion Is Down (notion.so)

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Repeat Yourself a Bit (startifact.com)

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Remote: Growing from Zero to Unicorn with Elixir (elixir-lang.org)

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From 0 to 400 Customers: SaaS Growth Hacks from a Serial Founder (opensaas.sh)

2

When Job Hopping Doesn't Make Sense (developing.dev)

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The New World of Redis (infoworld.com)

1

Building Advanced React Forms Using React Hook Form, Zod and Shadcn (wasp-lang.dev)

1

AI Slop Is Hurting Security – LLMs Are Dumb and People Are Dim (securityboulevard.com)

1

2025 Tech Predictions (newardassociates.com)

3

How to find a safe and inclusive work environment (mmaksimovic.dev)

1

Don't Create Chaos (staysaasy.com)

1

Follow the Hackers (endler.dev)

4

A Micro SaaS app that makes $550 MRR one year after launch (opensaas.sh)

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Ditching hourly and productizing my services (ontestautomation.com)

1

How to find potential customers to interview about your startup (asmartbear.com)

2

Browser Choice Must Matter (infrequently.org)

1

Building an Open Source AI Video Generator (opensaas.sh)

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Jason from Basecamp doesn't have an assistant (world.hey.com)

3

Which IDEs do software engineers love, and why? (pragmaticengineer.com)

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Evolving my ergonomic setup (or, my laptop with extra steps) (ntietz.com)

47

The slow death of the hands-on engineering manager (zaidesanton.substack.com)

3

What causes 'bad days' for developers? (getdx.com)

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Should You Use an Open-Source SaaS Boilerplate Starter or a $300 Paid One? (opensaas.sh)

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How to grow professional relationships (tej.as)

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Time spent programming is often time well spent (stanbright.com)

2

I tried to buy a guest post on TechCrunch.com (techcrunch.com)

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Samurai in Japan, then engineers at MIT (news.mit.edu)

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We Made the Most Annoying Cookie Banners (opensaas.sh)

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Thing DELETED 3 MONTHS OF WORK (2017) (github.com/microsoft)

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Building React Forms with Ease Using React Hook Form, Zod and Shadcn (wasp-lang.dev)

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Socratic Questioning – "Meetings are a waste of time" (perspectiveship.com)