Mike Bifulco

Nobody will tell you when your prototype becomes infrastructure. Your team knows it's an MVP. The people relying on it don't, and they have no reason to. I wrote my thoughts on how to spot the moment an experiment goes critical, and what to do about it.

The TanStack squad have some seriously 🔥 projects these days tanstack.com/blog/introdu...

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Every tutorial teaches you how to get started. Almost none teach you what to do once your company depends on the thing you built. I've been calling that gap The Operator Problem — and if you're hitting it, it usually means you did something right. mikebifulco.com/newsletter/o...

Launched a redesign of my personal site, now with more whimsy - mikebifulco.com

Alright, so in the midst of everything, I went on my first ever podcast on @apisyouwonthate.com with @mikebifulco.com Had a lot of fun, and even exposed some of our internal trade-secrets, about what makes DocsAlot just better than any other competitor. youtu.be/MhCcMLwGduY

This sounds like great fun - www.joshfinnie.com/blog/the-oct... Who's building Micro SaaS apps next month with @joshfinnie.dev? 🙋‍♂️

We really blasted right through the good old days, and it did not feel that way at the time

I am feeling @kjaymiller.com's words in my bones lately. I don't work in devrel anymore, but I've been struggling to write and publish my dev/builder focused newsletter because... What's the point? kjaymiller.com/blog/my-devr...

This is a great example of a thoughtful notification.

I'm heaps beached

Who's thinking about PKM nowadays? I was a very heavy Roam Research user for a long time, and later shifted to LogSeq, and then Obsidian... But I never stopped taking networked notes. This is what keeps me organized, and means I don't worry about forgetting things.

I really love my Pixel 10 Pro, and usually I'd be very excited about a Pixel 11, but... Everything has gotten too damn expensive to keep replacing this thing each year without a great reason. $499 _after_ giving back my current phone is a whole lotta skrilla.

I see some of my SC teacher friends going back to work today. August 10 seems criminally early to end summer break. I hope it's an easy day, y'all 🫡

Dev friends who use MacOS - do you use something other than Docker Desktop for managing containers?

If you ever need evidence that we should be investing more in public education, join your local neighborhood facebook group. Reading comprehension, math & finances, collaboration, sharing resources... it's all there, and your least qualified neighbors will make themselves apparent.

Great feeling: waking up to a notification that someone bought a copy of Surviving Other People's APIs, the book I co-authored with my pal @philsturgeon.com for @apisyouwonthate.com leanpub.com/surviving-ot...

Our small but mighty team of engineers shipped 350k lines of code last month. That is... bracing.

What's the difference between a UI icon and a UX icon?

Hot take: you've only _partially_ launched an app if it's only available on IOS or Android. 2026 - gimme both.

I think the _un-edited_ world cup finals photo is the most interesting one. People aren't talking about this.

My little tuner project is gaining some traction with bassists - started putting together some SEO fodder to try to bring me more new friends. Turns out there aren't many 5-string bass tuners online, funny enough. guithub.org/articles/bas...

One of OpenAPI's unsung heroes is its ability to be extended elegantly. You're gonna love @apievangelist.com's article on extensions. Also in this dispatch: Gin, the HTTP framework for Go, Upyo for sending email, Leaf Wiki, and the HTTP OPTIONS method. apisyouwonthate.com/newsletter/e...

Now THAT is how you write a perfect headline. Good work @theonion.com theonion.com/tj-maxx-adds...

Being wrong is human. Being wrong and STAYING wrong can be _stupid_ expensive. Learning to be wrong productively is a great skill for demonstrating leadership mikebifulco.com/newsletter/c...

HTTP Query is suddenly all over my feed. You'll also find it in the @apisyouwonthate.com newsletter, thanks to @alexanderkaran.bsky.social 🙏 tl;dr - time to clean up those read-only POST actions, there's a new verb in town! apisyouwonthate.com/newsletter/h...

9,999!!!

Leaflet is doing great work out here! 🫶🏼

My son's name is also SIGABRT

Just another day in the upside down youtu.be/W1nXiENOX_0?...

Canceled my paid plan with Cursor today. Bummed to see them acquired by SpaceX.

Everyone should have a tiny label printer.