Silas Reinagel - Extreme Software Engineering

Mar 25, 2021 - 2 minute read

Customizing Your Gumroad Buy Button Using Svelte

Gumroad is one of the hottest sites for creators to easily sell their digital products directly to customers with very little eCommerce setup work. You’ve probably seen a number of product on it from incredible creators such as Daniel Vassallo, Jose Rosado, and others. Here I’m going to show how you can customize the Buy Button style to match your website’s design.

Feb 18, 2021 - 4 minute read

Perfect Estimates Every Time

People hate uncertainty. That is why they love estimates. An estimate plants itself in someone’s mind and replaces uncertainty. It feels really good to have certainty, instead of uncertainty. I know of three ways you can give perfect estimates on every project.

Jan 14, 2021 - 5 minute read

Summits versus Action Squads

Modern enterprise software development is primarily about communication. Softwares communicate with other softwares. These communication patterns also impact how easily new features can be planned and built. There are two very common approaches, and there is a much better approach. I will contrast these for you.

Sep 18, 2020 - 3 minute read

Software At Scale - Constraints

When you’re working with software that services millions or billions of requests per day, you must solve different problems than simply making a given feature behave correctly. It needs to be fast, resilient, and flexibly deployable/scalable. There are three key constraints you must juggle.