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25 years of helping businesses from 0 to 1. Now building my own product to do it all over again, solo.
Excellent developer experience leads to excellent customer experience.
Where I end up every time I tried all apps and processes is a todo.txt file, based on the http://todotxt.org file format.
Now AI agents happily contribute to it as well :-).
Is anyone else in that boat?
I spent the last three months writing a 200+ page book, with 19 corresponding pull requests.
https://www.mikenikles.com/cloud-native-web-development
It's a hands-on guidebook on how to develop a cloud-native web application based on technologies I am familiar with. Svelte, Tailwind CSS, Cypress.io, Gitpod.io, Firebase & Google Cloud at a high-level.
The goal was to walk through the entire end-to-end process, from zero to production! It walks through building a foundation needed to develop on top of. CI / CD, testing, feature toggles, production monitoring, etc.
To write it, I used Google Docs and had two git repositories: one to experiment and one that contains the final source code - where the git commit history looks like I never struggled :-).
AMA on self-publishing or the book's topic itself!