Archive - Optimism (for the web)

The JavaScript ecosystem in 2024

When there's competition in DevTools, developers win

Oct 30, 2024 •

A quick recap of my past few months.

Oct 19, 2024 •

March 2024

On Developer Marketing

What influences developers to adopt a product?

Mar 24, 2024 •

January 2024

How I'm Writing CSS in 2024

In case you haven't noticed, writing CSS got really good.

Jan 7, 2024 •

August 2023

Product and Platform Engineers

The divide between frontend and backend engineers is increasingly less useful:

Aug 7, 2023 •

July 2023

Make Something Developers Want

Five steps for building products developers love.

Jul 21, 2023 •

January 2023

2023 State of Databases for Serverless & Edge

There's been massive innovation in the database and backend space for developers building applications with serverless and edge compute. There are new…

Jan 28, 2023 •

Why You Should Use a React Framework

And spend more time writing React code.

Jan 5, 2023 •

December 2022

Why I'm Optimistic About JavaScript's Future

Learn once, write everywhere – that's the JavaScript way.

Dec 18, 2022 •

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