Podcast

Episode 20 - Finding a new Home Planet

We are back with a new friction log about Hex, a platform to build notebooks around data science and analytics.

by Rick & Cesar · 8/5/2022

Podcast

Episode 19 - Databricks Conference

Rick & Cesar · 7/14/2022

Summer travel, WWDC, and the Data and AI Summit by Databricks.

Podcast

Episode 18 - React Miami 2022

Rick & Cesar · 7/6/2022

We are back to talk about React Miami 2022, where Rick gave the talk: Faster and Better UX Helps Ocean Sustainability

Podcast

Episode 17 - The friction log is about Friction Log

Rick & Cesar · 4/20/2022

In this episode we talk about why and how the Friction Log website code is now open source and available for anybody to use.

Podcast

Episode 16 - Estamos en vivo

Rick & Cesar · 3/31/2022

Whether is because of licensing or excessive memory consumption, some of us have looked for Docker alternatives and here is where Podman comes into place. This week Cesar shares his experience moving from Docker to Podman.

Podcast

Episode 15 - Not a toilet paper company

Rick & Cesar · 3/17/2022

Transactional emails should be a problem of the past; however, there is still an opportunity for tools to solve the basic needs of developers. In this episode, Cesar and Rick to about MailPace, formerly known as OhMySMTP.

Podcast

Episode 14 - Regulate a gazillion lakes

Rick & Cesar · 3/3/2022

Cesar and Rick take a first-time experience run on Fig.io, a terminal plugin that does some pretty cool, magical auto-complete. They also talk about how Fish Rules is now part of Fish Brain and the journey that it took to get there.

News

Tech finds, Dec 11th '21

Rick Blalock · 12/11/2021

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

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

Friction Log

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

Friction Log

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.

Friction Log

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.

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