An experienced engineer recently asked me what I look at in a candidate's profile before hiring, they asked if I could share anything particular that makes a profile stand out to me and any tactical advice I had for job searching.

By meaningful, I don’t mean having a million followers, I mean quality connections where you can have real discussions and look out for each other.

Default public is the most powerful way to build trust with your customers. It’s simple to do, but terrifying.

Building strong, fully-remote, global engineering teams is hard, but it's not rocket science.

Nobody is paying attention anyway

I hated journalling and never saw the value in it but I've recently learned its all in the framing.

You wouldn’t build a house without a front door. So why build a product without knowing who can see what, and why?

Last week, I started experimenting with themed days: Monday, Wednesday, Friday for content and marketing Tuesday and Thursday for deep coding and product work

A deep dive into roles, permissions, feature flags, and entitlements

While the tools themselves vary from content generation to data agents to transcription services a few themes keep showing up:

When I started building products, Auth-as-a-Service felt like a gift. Plug in a few lines of JavaScript, and boom! Sign-up, login, and password reset all taken care of. No more rolling your own sessions or wrestling with bcrypt. It felt like cheating (in the best way).

While the tools themselves vary from content generation to data agents to transcription services a few themes keep showing up:

If you’re building something, don’t rush past your milestones. Pause, reflect and most importantly celebrate the win.

Sometimes just taking a minute gives you a new lens. You stop trying to be right, and start trying to understand the other persons perspective. I find when I reframe like that, more often than not I learn something.

At Kinde, we set out to solve a problem we’d faced ourselves at other startups, gluing together essential infrastructure that should just work out of the box.

I don't care when my team works. I care what they ship and how it helps the customer.

We’re excited to announce the release of the Kinde Next.js 13 SDK. An authentication solution for Next.js that fully leverages App Router, and ships zero JS to the browser.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve always had a project on the side from my main job. This habit started many moons ago, making websites for local bands, customizing their MySpace