Alexis Taylor
@alexi5.bsky.social
Software and design nerd. Running startups for 10+ years. 🍁
Founder @ umso.com
Founder @ umso.com
youtu.be/wLb9g_8r-mE?... such a good interview. Could listen to Jony all day
A conversation with Jony Ive
YouTube video by Stripe
youtu.be
May 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
youtu.be/wLb9g_8r-mE?... such a good interview. Could listen to Jony all day
Now that's a deep dive
AWS CloudFront Deep Dive
Master AWS CloudFront: Boost content delivery with caching, Lambda@Edge, WAF, and global edge locations for low latency & high performance.
medium.com
May 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Now that's a deep dive
woah that Cloudfront SaaS manager thing looks like everything I've ever wanted. Can't wait to try it
May 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
woah that Cloudfront SaaS manager thing looks like everything I've ever wanted. Can't wait to try it
Now feels like a great time to deploy to prod
May 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Now feels like a great time to deploy to prod
golang embed.FS is the cooooolest thing: pkg.go.dev/embed#hdr-Fi...
going into something like "hmm I wonder if this would be doable" and not only is it doable, it takes like 2 lines of code
going into something like "hmm I wonder if this would be doable" and not only is it doable, it takes like 2 lines of code
March 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
golang embed.FS is the cooooolest thing: pkg.go.dev/embed#hdr-Fi...
going into something like "hmm I wonder if this would be doable" and not only is it doable, it takes like 2 lines of code
going into something like "hmm I wonder if this would be doable" and not only is it doable, it takes like 2 lines of code
take that, aws bill!
March 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
take that, aws bill!
Can't help but think about this every time I see something related to apple intelligence
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0V5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0V5...
Apple Intelligence is for the Stupid Ones
YouTube video by CNET
www.youtube.com
March 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Can't help but think about this every time I see something related to apple intelligence
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0V5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0V5...
by sheer coincidence, every piece of code i touched lately needed a regex in some way or another and its so satisfying how my brain went from "what the heck is this" to just reading regex in realtime. brains are cool
March 7, 2025 at 4:59 AM
by sheer coincidence, every piece of code i touched lately needed a regex in some way or another and its so satisfying how my brain went from "what the heck is this" to just reading regex in realtime. brains are cool
RDS blue/green deployments are a blessing
March 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
RDS blue/green deployments are a blessing
this was some next level sleepy code
March 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
this was some next level sleepy code
step 1: setup dynamodb table with keys not suitable for making targeted deletes
step2: let it grow to 500gb
step3: trouble & bills
step2: let it grow to 500gb
step3: trouble & bills
February 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
step 1: setup dynamodb table with keys not suitable for making targeted deletes
step2: let it grow to 500gb
step3: trouble & bills
step2: let it grow to 500gb
step3: trouble & bills
Optimizing our scroll-triggered animation logic ended up looking like a science fair
February 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Optimizing our scroll-triggered animation logic ended up looking like a science fair
How we're doing global cache invalidations in 1s with "no infrastructure":
1. user publishes site
2. we generate a short random key
3. save it to dynamodb table
4. dynamodb does global replication
5. edge uses key in request hash for cache
6. ...
7. profit
1. user publishes site
2. we generate a short random key
3. save it to dynamodb table
4. dynamodb does global replication
5. edge uses key in request hash for cache
6. ...
7. profit
February 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
How we're doing global cache invalidations in 1s with "no infrastructure":
1. user publishes site
2. we generate a short random key
3. save it to dynamodb table
4. dynamodb does global replication
5. edge uses key in request hash for cache
6. ...
7. profit
1. user publishes site
2. we generate a short random key
3. save it to dynamodb table
4. dynamodb does global replication
5. edge uses key in request hash for cache
6. ...
7. profit
Last year we spend most of the time rebuilding our core product at the expense of the legacy version not getting any updates. The efforts are finally paying off with us being able to crank out long-awaited features in no time
February 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Last year we spend most of the time rebuilding our core product at the expense of the legacy version not getting any updates. The efforts are finally paying off with us being able to crank out long-awaited features in no time
oh dang just tried out the new github runners and almost cut the ci/cd time in half for what's gonna cost us like $30 a month
February 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
oh dang just tried out the new github runners and almost cut the ci/cd time in half for what's gonna cost us like $30 a month
no matter what you do, sooner or later you'll get another strange npm lockfile/build/cache/etc issue. Nobody is safe
February 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
no matter what you do, sooner or later you'll get another strange npm lockfile/build/cache/etc issue. Nobody is safe
I feel like spotlight search is somehow getting worse with every macOS update so I finally tried raycast and holy shit is my life immediately so much better.
February 25, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I feel like spotlight search is somehow getting worse with every macOS update so I finally tried raycast and holy shit is my life immediately so much better.
If you're a SaaS with a small team and need some user-facing analytics without much fuss I cannot recommend clickhouse enough. I switched all of our stuff over from a legacy system in two days, including migrating all existing data and rewriting all the queries from scratch
February 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
If you're a SaaS with a small team and need some user-facing analytics without much fuss I cannot recommend clickhouse enough. I switched all of our stuff over from a legacy system in two days, including migrating all existing data and rewriting all the queries from scratch
I once wrote my own database engine. Partly for fun but also because I was missing a time-series database option that wasn't all like "datalake, petabyte, enterprise, call us for quote"
So glad I found @clickhouse.com. It's everything I ever wanted 💃 Now I can put my questionable attempt to rest.
So glad I found @clickhouse.com. It's everything I ever wanted 💃 Now I can put my questionable attempt to rest.
February 24, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I once wrote my own database engine. Partly for fun but also because I was missing a time-series database option that wasn't all like "datalake, petabyte, enterprise, call us for quote"
So glad I found @clickhouse.com. It's everything I ever wanted 💃 Now I can put my questionable attempt to rest.
So glad I found @clickhouse.com. It's everything I ever wanted 💃 Now I can put my questionable attempt to rest.
Life hack for small teams: keeping a log of things you're doing day to day. This helps everyone stay in sync and tbh it helps me remember what I've been up to. Can also help with short-term planning and reducing overall cognitive load
February 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Life hack for small teams: keeping a log of things you're doing day to day. This helps everyone stay in sync and tbh it helps me remember what I've been up to. Can also help with short-term planning and reducing overall cognitive load
slack webhook avatars are an important form of artistic expression
February 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
slack webhook avatars are an important form of artistic expression
just a smaaaaaall little feature we've been working on that spans nearly all of our services 👀
February 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
just a smaaaaaall little feature we've been working on that spans nearly all of our services 👀
it baffles me when small companies send their marketing email from a no-reply address. Like don't you want to hear from the people you're trying to talk to?
February 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
it baffles me when small companies send their marketing email from a no-reply address. Like don't you want to hear from the people you're trying to talk to?
In software if you're thinking you'll just quickly do this one easy thing. Prepare to not
February 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
In software if you're thinking you'll just quickly do this one easy thing. Prepare to not