News

Tech finds, Dec 11th '21

The latest picks this week - Learning from people that scale, big Cloudflare features, Rust is taking over, and more.

by Rick Blalock · 12/11/2021

Article

Simple Rate Limiting with Upstash (Redis)

Rick Blalock · 11/15/2021

Here's a simple way to do rate limiting based on a key and using incr.

News

Tech finds, Nov 8th '21

Rick Blalock · 11/4/2021

The latest picks this week - Mobile E2E testing, Excel + JavaScript, and more.

Friction Log

Waldo.io First Time Experience

Rick Blalock · 10/26/2021

A quick journey (because it came to a crashing halt) of Waldo.io, a mobile app testing SaaS

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Fig.io First Time Experience

Rick Blalock · 10/24/2021

Fig.io promises to be the terminal experience we all want. It seemed promising but still has a ways to go

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Checkly First Time Experience

Rick Blalock · 10/23/2021

Checkly is a simple up-time monitor that was easy to setup and now I'm using it for everything.

Video

Learn Python with Just Github Copilot?!

Rick Blalock · 7/7/2021

Here's the hypothesis, It's possible for an experienced programmer to learn a new language with just Github Copilot. Is it possible? Let's find out!

Podcast

Episode 13 - Brain Hack

Rick & Cesar · 3/25/2021

Rockset is a database optimized for real-time analytics, super-fast queries, and more. Rick shares his impressions of Rockset with a particular use case at FishRules.

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Rockset

Rick Blalock · 3/22/2021

Rockset is a database optimized for real-time analytics, super-fast queries, and more. Rick Blalock takes it for a spin with an actual use case for his company, Fish Rules.

Podcast

Episode 12 - Index anxiety

Rick, Cesar, & Jeff · 3/8/2021

Special guest Jeff Haynie, from Pinpoint, joins us to share a first-time experience friction log using Firebase. Firebase is Google's platform that helps you quickly develop high-quality apps and scale your business.

Podcast

Episode 11 - Work off the tacos

Rick & Cesar · 2/11/2021

Figma is the subject of our first friction log of 2021. Cesar, a developer, goes into the designer's world and discusses the UX from a developer's POV.

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Figma - First Time Experience

Cesar · 1/24/2021

We have mentioned Figma since the beginning of Friction Log as the tool that we used to create assets for the webpage, interestingly enough I haven't used Figma before and decided to try it out.

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Roomservice.dev, Tailwind UI, Retool, Sanity

Rick · 1/20/2021

This post has a smattering of random tools that I didn’t think was appropriate for a full friction log (at least not yet). This is more of a “first-time” impressions post.

Video

Palm Beach Hackathon 2020 Entry

Rick, Cesar, & Matt · 11/23/2020

Matt, Cesar, and Rick have a fireside chat about a hackathon entry, going over the tech details, the stack, and general hackathon thoughts.

Podcast

Episode 10 - Fall Notifications

Rick & Cesar · 11/10/2020

Nova is the new code editor from Panic, the makers of software such as Coda and Transmit. Cesar dives in for a first-time experience using the editor. Find out how it went!

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Nova First Time Experience

Cesar Cavazos · 10/21/2020

Nova is the latest app made by Panic and is a great native Mac app. I had a fairly great experience while trying it out but not without some of the frictions as every new app would have.

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