Articles by lucasfcosta
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Backpressure is all you need (lucasfcosta.com)

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Design Docs Considered Harmful (lucasfcosta.com)

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Design docs are waterfall wearing a hoodie (lucasfcosta.com)

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Retrospectives (lucasfcosta.com)

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Why your retrospectives don't work and how to fix them (lucasfcosta.com)

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Resend is launching inbound emails (resend.com)

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Resend Acquires Briefer (resend.com)

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Confidence Intervals (briefer.cloud)

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How linear regression works intuitively and how it leads to gradient descent (briefer.cloud)

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Least Squares and the Gradient Descent (briefer.cloud)

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Regex Licensing (regexlicensing.org)

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Going open-source as a VC-Backed company (briefer.cloud)

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Ask HN: What technical podcasts do you listen to?

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Notebooks and CRDTs (briefer.cloud)

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Multiplayer Python notebooks using CRDTs (briefer.cloud)

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Show HN: Briefer – Multiplayer notebooks with schedules, SQL, and built-in LLMs (briefer.cloud)

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Designing code-gen assistants for notebooks (briefer.cloud)

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Self-Serve Dashboards (briefer.cloud)

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The myth of self-serve BI (briefer.cloud)

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Logarithmic Scales (briefer.cloud)

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Log Scales (briefer.cloud)

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What we learned from a failed infrastructure DevTool (briefer.cloud)

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Pivoting away from infrastructure, why it's hard, and what we'd do differently (briefer.cloud)

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What p-values are, what they are not, and how to sell books with bad statistics (briefer.cloud)

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Chilling Effect (wikipedia.org)

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The Inevitable Death of Localhost (ergomake.dev)

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Localhost Will Inevitably Die (ergomake.dev)

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Breaking Terraform files into composable layers (github.com/ergomake)

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10% Anguilla's GDP this year comes from selling .ai domains (arstechnica.com)

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Open-Source Washing (github.com/ergomake)

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Manipulating Terraform states for fun, profit, and reusability (github.com/ergomake)

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Manipulating Terraform states for fun, profit, and reusability (github.com/ergomake)

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How to do a successful Hacker News launch (github.com/ergomake)

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How to do a successful Hacker News launch (github.com/ergomake)

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Layerform — Open-source alternative to Terraform (github.com/ergomake)

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Ask HN: How do you set up your local dev. environment? Can you run it locally?

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Books about good practices are just books about someone's opinion

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Deadlines are pointless – what to do instead

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Why deadlines are pointless and what to do instead

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My productivity routine to write a 500-page book

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Useful engineering metrics and why velocity is not one of them

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Creating a bot farm in an MMORPG got me into programming

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Creating a bot farm in an MMORPG got me into programming

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Creating a bot farm in an MMORPG got me into programming

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Why tall hierarchies slow organizations down and how to fix them

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How and why exploiting uncertainty makes products more profitable

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Why tall hierarchies slow organizations down and how to fix them

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The Minimum Viable Nothing: ideas to validate products without building them

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How not to build a bike shed

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How not to build a bike shed

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How not to build a bike shed

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Talking to your customers: a disruptive Agile framework

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The dynamics of decision-making hierarchies and how to optimize them

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How to decide who makes decisions

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How and why exploiting uncertainty makes products more profitable

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Why your daily stand-ups don't work and how to fix them

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Exploiting uncertainty to make products more profitable

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Talking to your customers: a disruptive concept

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TTYC: A new, more profitable, and robust Agile framework