Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.
My Ramblings This Week
Let’s be honest, you know little when starting a new project. And it has to be, otherwise it wouldn’t be new by definition.
But here’s the kicker, you don’t need to know much: a tentative direction is enough. All the rest, you figure out refactoring on the way.
So, stop overthinking, start with anything, keep the feedback loop short, and improve with the signal.
Short feedback loops eat preplanning for breakfast because it’s exactly at the outset of a project that you know the least. And this is one of the reasons January 17 is officially Ditch New Year’s Resolutions Day.
By the way, what are you ditching tomorrow?
Elsewhere on the Web
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Write your first workflow with GitHub Actions and GitHub APIs by Bassem Dghaidi
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