Richard Oliver Bray

YouTube video by Better Stack 10 Pro Claude Code Tips & Tricks NO ONE Shares

3. Press ESC twice in a prompt window lets you go back through previous messages.
4. Using --resume to select from a list of closed conversations

I go through these tips and more in my latest YT video 👇
youtu.be/Br5Ofobq6Is

A lot of people don't know about some of the cool things you can do with Claude Code by @AnthropicAI

Like:

1. Use hooks to set up audio and push notifications
2. Use think, megathink and ultra think to trigger extended thinking mode
3. ...🧵

YouTube video by Better Stack The 5 Neovim Plugins Made Me REGRET Ever Using Cursor AI

If you're an @neovim.io fan and love using AI tools, you should check out these 5 plugins
youtu.be/P62w53FP1JQ

YouTube video by Better Stack Did Docker's Model Runner Just DESTROY Ollama?

Tried to get some MrBeast vibes from this @docker.com video. What do you think?
youtu.be/QkomqeGpwpI

I've just got NeonDB working with @zero.rocicorp.dev for a React app and I've gotta say, what a wild ride. I'll have a video coming out about it soon...

This is amazing!! I'd love to know more about the tech/infrastructure that holds this all together. Databases, event streaming, caching, etc...

YouTube video by Better Stack Bash Script BEST Practices You Need to Know, According to Google

I wish someone told me before how cool the bash scripting language was.

I learnt a lot while making this video. Time to turn all my tiny TypeScript scripts to bash

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_er...

YouTube video by Better Stack MASTER Apache Kafka in just 8 minutes to Build Real-Time Apps

When I was a front-end dev, a company I worked for expected all developers to know Apache Kafka.

At the time, I thought it was a bit odd. But now I've gone through the effort of making a video about Kafka, I still think it was a bit odd. 🤷

www.youtube.com/watch?v=feKB...

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'kafka.vendor.six.moves' in Dockerized Django Application I am facing an issue with my Dockerized Django application. I am using the following Dockerfile to build my application: FROM python:alpine ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE 1 ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1 ENV

As good as AI is, I spend ages with it trying to debug an issue only to find the solution in @StackOverflow in 2 seconds.

stackoverflow.com/questions/77...

Not convinced it's going to take our jobs just yet 😅

How Dropbox Saved Millions of Dollars by Building a Load Balancer Dropbox saved resources by creating a superior version of a tool everyone uses

If you asked me about load balancers in the past, I'd say use @caddy.bsky.social. But after writing this @dropboxofficial.bsky.social article, I know much, much more about them

I mean, the team built their own load balancer from scratch!

newsletter.betterstack.com/p/how-dropbo...

Hacking Scale on daily.dev

If you use @dailydotdev.bsky.social I've created a public squad with all the Hacking Scale articles.

dly.to/Ax9N1cW5ova

Wait, so you can earn money on @Reddit now! When was this a thing?

Such a great video. I'm pretty new to the infra world so I understood about half of it, but I've made notes on what to learn more about 💪

Real talk has anyone seen any benefit to being verified on @linkedin.com

I just came from X and I think there's more engagement on there for this post than here 😔

📣 BIG NEWS 📣

My full React Data Fetching video course has been released on newline 🙌

The course teaches devs how to fetch data safely in React without using a third-party library or the useEffect hook.

Interested? Click on the link below and check it out 👇

www.newline.co/courses/reac...

Just finished writing the draft for an article about @dropboxofficial.bsky.social Robinhood for Hacking Scale and let me tell you, there is a lot of complicated tech out there.

Nice, it looks really slick. Can't believe I'd never heard of it.

Am I the only one who actually likes those categories 😢

Ooooh that looks cool. I'm guessing it's not a GameBoy?

Thanks for sharing. I just subscribed 💪

Are they any @dropboxofficial.bsky.social engineers on here that I can ask a Robinhood question to?

The question being why is it called Robinhood 🙂

Well would you look at that, over 4K subs 🚀🚀🚀

Thanks to all those who have subscribed and shared it with friends or colleagues.

I have so many more awesome articles in the pipeline and it's exciting to know more people will read them

#tech #scale #growth #programming

newsletter.betterstack.com

Congrats 👏👏👏

Never heard of it before but I'll check it out. Thanks for sharing.

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This is great thanks for sharing this. I'd love to write about this for a future Hacking Scale article (newsletter.betterstack.com).

How Shopify Reduced Metrics Resources by 75% Shopify saved resources by breaking big tools into tiny reusable services

I think it's really cool that #Shopify built their own observability system called Observe.

There isn't a lot of information about it out there but I've written hopefully the first of many articles about it.

newsletter.betterstack.com/p/how-shopif...

Wow. Looking forward to the @t3.gg overview video.

If you're interested, that comment is from this post
www.reddit.com/r/git/commen...

It's not often I get nice comments on #Reddit but this one really stood out to me as being extremely nice.

Reddit can be a kind place sometimes.