Tom Preston-Werner
Programmer and entrepreneur; co-founded GitHub and created Jekyll, Gravatar and the Semantic Versioning spec.
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Their wordsWe believe that a company is only as good as its team, and a team is only as good as its founders.
- 2 years earlier
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Their wordsWhile we love GraphQL for many use cases, implementing a secure and performant GraphQL API can be tricky and there is a definite cost to requiring it during early prototyping of your app.
↗RedwoodJS’ Next Epoch: All In on React Server Componentstom.preston-werner.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsRSC is the future of React. The React team has made this very clear and we are lucky to be in touch with their amazing team members to help us along this path.
↗RedwoodJS’ Next Epoch: All In on React Server Componentstom.preston-werner.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsWhen it comes to React Server Components, it's still the first inning.
↗RedwoodJS’ Next Epoch: All In on React Server Componentstom.preston-werner.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 12 months earlier
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Their wordsIf we want to live in a world where SemVer improves our collective experience as much as possible, it means we need to believe something new: Major version numbers are not sacred.
↗Major Version Numbers are Not Sacredtom.preston-werner.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsI actually prefer more frequent major versions with smaller sets of breaking changes. There is a real danger in saving up all your significant changes and releasing them in one whopping major version once a year.
↗Major Version Numbers are Not Sacredtom.preston-werner.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 7 weeks earlier
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Their wordsClimate change is the existential crisis of our time. We need more ideas and progress in every sector, including software-based approaches to preventing emissions and sequestering carbon.
- 3 days earlier
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Their wordsWhen you take venture funding, you sign up for a rocket ship ride that will either take you to the moon or to crash-land painfully back on earth. Those are the only two choices. And both rides tend to require heavy extraction of value from the customer.
↗Announcing RedwoodJS 1.0 and $1M Fundingtom.preston-werner.com
- 22 months earlier
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Their wordsThese are just three of the names on the list of thousands of Black men and women who lost their lives to the systemic racism that is woven into the fabric of this country.
↗Committing $250k this Year to Racial Justice Effortstom.preston-werner.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsIt will take a monumental anti-racist movement to change the underlying conditions that allow racism in the United States to flourish.
↗Committing $250k this Year to Racial Justice Effortstom.preston-werner.com 2nd of 2 in this piece