Articles by fagnerbrack
15

Claude.ai Is Down (claude.ai)

2

LLMs and Your Career (eatonphil.com)

1

Getting Real with LLMs (giladpeleg.com)

3

Napkin Math (github.com/sirupsen)

3

The Move Faster Manifesto (brianguthrie.com)

1

The Problem You Solve Is More Important Than the Code You Write (medium.com/fagnerbrack)

2

A movie-like Music Video built using AI (youtube.com)

1

Claude is down (05 Dec '25) Cloudflare returning 500 (claude.ai)

5

AWS Is Down (dataconomy.com)

1

The Danger Of Relying On Abstractions-replace verbatim "the internet" with "AI" (medium.com/hackernoon)

4

Full AI-Based Workflow

1

Re-Imagining Technical Interviews: Valuing Experience over Exam Skills (danielabaron.me)

46

The CAP theorem of Clustering: Why Every Algorithm Must Sacrifice Something (codingconfessions.com)

1

Cognitive Load is what matters (github.com/zakirullin)

4

Naming Conventions That Need to Die (2018) (willcrichton.net)

1

It turns out I'm still excited about the web (werd.io)

78

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection (fhur.me)

1

Writing system software: code comments (antirez.com)

1

A Map of Software Engineering Pay in US (levels.fyi)

57

Slow deployment causes meetings (2015) (tidyfirst.substack.com)

25

Talking over a wall changed my direction as a programmer (thecodist.com)

34

Ideas from "A Philosophy of Software Design" (16elt.com)

2

Covid: "I lost 95% revenue OVERNIGHT" in a multi-million dollar startup (spotify.com)

1

Web Components Are Not the Future – They're the Present (abeautifulsite.net)

1

How to Cope with Technology FOMO (avdi.codes)

1

The Nine Node Pillars (platformatichq.com)

1

Fantastic talk about pre-mortem and decision making under stress [video] (ted.com)

1

Codemania 2015: Josh Robb – Connascence and Coupling [video] (youtube.com)

1

How to Cope with Technology FOMO (avdi.codes)

1

What Makes Concurrency So Hard? (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)

2

GitHub trick to find the commit that deleted a file (microsoft.com)

1

My dead father is writing me notes again (arstechnica.com)

3

The Impossibility of Making an Elite Engineer (tidyfirst.substack.com)

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Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers (alvaroduran.com)

14

Math4devs.com: List of mathematical symbols with their JavaScript equivalent (math4devs.com)

1

Video (4M): TypeScript: Should you use Types or Interfaces? (youtube.com)

1

Larman's Laws of Organizational Behavior (craiglarman.com)

1

AI will step off the screen and into the real world [video] (ted.com)

3

Software Licensing Changes and Their Impact on Financial Outcomes (redmonk.com)

2

I just crossed $1M on GitHub Sponsors (calebporzio.com)

2

Heic-To: Convert HEIC/HEIF Images to JPEG, PNG in Browser (github.com/hoppergee)

2

Exploring Generative AI (martinfowler.com)

1

Real-Time Mouse Pointers (canva.dev)

1

In Case You Missed: JavaScript Standard Got an Extra Stage (thenewstack.io)

2

Is Linux collapsing under its own weight? On Rust for Linux (sporks.space)

1

Seriousness (malloc.dog)

2

Ten Git tips and tricks you need to know (honeybadger.io)

1

HTML-metadata – a Node.js library that extracts metadata from HTML pages (github.com/wikimedia)

1

Regexes Got Good: The History and Future of Regular Expressions in JavaScript (smashingmagazine.com)

1

Async Chunk Preloading on Load (mmazzarolo.com)

1

Visual Programming in the 60s [video] (youtube.com)

1

Reader Q&A: What does it mean to initialize an int in C++? (herbsutter.com)

49

Practices of Reliable Software Design (entropicthoughts.com)

2

Data Is Just an Added Sense (commoncog.com)

1

Rules for an Effective Meeting Culture (ashleyjanssen.com)

1

Database Indexes and Phone Books (thorstenball.com)

2

Benchmarking AWS Lambda Cold Starts Across JavaScript Runtimes (deno.com)

2

Why Unknown Types Are Useful (michaeluloth.com)

1

Data Preloading Script (mmazzarolo.com)

1

Airbnb Smoothly Upgrades React (using fundamentals of A/B testing) (medium.com/airbnb-engineering)

1

Whys and the fix for "Exit handler never called" in Node 22.5.0 (photostructure.com)

2

How to build good relationships inside and outside your engineering team (eng-leadership.com)

2

Canva collects 25B events per day (canva.dev)

1

The Rise and Fall of the Blue-Collar Developers (2ndworst.dev)

1

Interesting Project: why-is-node-running (github.com/mafintosh)

1

Stop Perfecting Your Config (evantravers.com)

2

Going Fast Slowly (varnish-cache.org)

105

TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them (ntietz.com)

1

JavaScript snippet that sets all Lighthouse scores to 100 (amitmerchant.com)

38

How people with disabilities use the web (w3.org)

2

Colin Bryar on the Practice of Amazon's Weekly Business Review (commoncog.com)

1

What Can We Remove? (stephango.com)

2

Window.ai – Everything about the new Chrome AI feature (afficone.com)

1

The Many Facets of Coupling (enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com)

1

Percentile (alexewerlof.com)

3

How Does Facebook Manage to Serve Billions of Users Daily? (favtutor.com)

1

GitHub Copilot Workspace Review (matduggan.com)

2

What's hidden behind "just implementation details" (ntietz.com)

2

Js1024 Winners – 2024 Edition (js1024.fun)

3

What Software Development Looks Like Now (goodtechthings.com)

3

Always Measure One Level Deeper (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

1

Live Types in a TypeScript Monorepo (colinhacks.com)

2

What happens when a major NPM library goes commercial? (nodeland.dev)

139

How to build quickly (learnhowtolearn.org)

3

The Documentation Tradeoff (tidyfirst.substack.com)

2

Creating Zip Files with JavaScript (cjoshmartin.com)

1

I Tried React Compiler (developerway.com)

2

How to Compose Functions That Take Multiple Parameters: Epic Guide (jrsinclair.com)

1

GraphQL Query Complexity Analysis (github.com/slicknode)

2

Node.js Timeout Handling (pocoo.org)

1

AI-Driven Test-Driven Development (ilusr.com)

131

Database Design for Google Calendar: A Tutorial (databasedesignbook.com)

12

Demystifying cookies and tokens (tommihovi.com)

29

Data Fetching for Single-Page Apps (martinfowler.com)

48

Eight Years of GraphQL (magiroux.com)

45

ULID: Like UUID but Sortable (2019) (github.com/ulid)

1

The Don'ts for Software Engineer (favtutor.com)

2

Uber Migrates 1T Records from DynamoDB to LedgerStore (infoq.com)

1

You Shouldn't Use AI to Write Your Tests (swizec.com)

4

The internet is full of broken links (sherwood.news)