in San Francisco.
I build
serious tools and silly hacks, mostly at early-stage startups.
Recently at
Daybreak Health. I'm often
found at @kkuchta@ruby.social.
One of the coolest things about working at a tiny startup is getting to make foundational technical decisions and seeing how they play out. A couple years in startup time is as long as a life-age of the earth like a decade in normal business time. It lets you get feedback on how those decisions worked out as the company + team scale.
I was the first eng hire at Daybreak Health. 3 years later I was managing a team of 8 in a 70-person company. Here are the decisions I’m glad of and here are the ones I regret.
How do you build software that will last more than a decade with no maintenance?
So, it turns out that css background-images don’t get loaded until the relevant selector is triggered.
Many people might say “neat!”
I used it to build a bi-directional CSS-only async chat.
I challenge you to reliably tell the difference between AWS and Totes-not-amazon.
There are a bunch of free/cheap options for hosting static sites (just html/css/js) out there: github pages, netlify, firebase hosting - but when I want to build a bulletproof static site “for real”, my go-to toolset is S3 for hosting with Cloudfront caching in front of it.