Notes, thoughts, and ideas on backend development, programming, and technology. I write about JavaScript, Go, Node.js, CSS, and platform engineering in general.https://bitsnacker.com/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/pg-make-something-people-want/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/pg-make-something-people-want/Make something people want.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitsnacker.com/posts/pg-how-to-earn-a-billion-dollars/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/pg-how-to-earn-a-billion-dollars/Paul Graham on why the biggest fortunes now come from starting companies — and what that shift implies for anyone ambitious.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitsnacker.com/posts/pg-ideas-for-startups/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/pg-ideas-for-startups/Why good startup ideas feel more like questions than answers, and how to put yourself in a position to have more of them.Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitsnacker.com/posts/pg-founder-mode/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/pg-founder-mode/The counterintuitive way the best founders actually run their companies, versus the 'manager mode' advice they're usually handed.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitsnacker.com/posts/pg-how-to-make-wealth/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/pg-how-to-make-wealth/The classic essay on the difference between wealth and money, and why startups let you compress a career's work into a few years.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitsnacker.com/posts/make-it-work-kent-beck/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/make-it-work-kent-beck/Make it work, make it right, make it fast — in that order, and don't skip the middle one because it's less fun.Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitsnacker.com/posts/pg-how-to-get-startup-ideas/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/pg-how-to-get-startup-ideas/Notice problems, live in the future, and build what you yourself want. Paul Graham's definitive guide to finding ideas worth pursuing.Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitsnacker.com/posts/pg-billionaires-build/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/pg-billionaires-build/A defense of the founders who become wealthy precisely by building things large numbers of people want.Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitsnacker.com/posts/pg-how-to-think-for-yourself/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/pg-how-to-think-for-yourself/Why independent-mindedness matters most in work where the goal is to be right, and how to cultivate it.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitsnacker.com/posts/philosophy-of-software-design-link/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/philosophy-of-software-design-link/John Ousterhout on complexity, deep modules, and why the best code is often the least clever.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitsnacker.com/posts/pg-how-to-raise-money/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/pg-how-to-raise-money/The mechanics of raising money for a startup — working investors in parallel, leverage, and getting to a close.Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitsnacker.com/posts/pg-how-to-lose-time-and-money/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/pg-how-to-lose-time-and-money/The surprising ways you actually lose time and money — rarely the obvious, dramatic ones you'd guard against.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitsnacker.com/posts/pg-relentlessly-resourceful/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/pg-relentlessly-resourceful/The two words Paul Graham settled on as the best predictor of whether a startup founder will succeed.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitsnacker.com/posts/pg-how-to-start-google/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/pg-how-to-start-google/Paul Graham's talk to teenagers on the three things you need to start a startup like Google: be good at tech, build something you want, and find co-founders.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitsnacker.com/posts/developer-productivity-frameworks-and-models/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/developer-productivity-frameworks-and-models/Framework and metrics to reason about developer productivityThu, 11 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitsnacker.com/posts/redis-remove-a-node-in-handshake-state/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/redis-remove-a-node-in-handshake-state/How to remove re-appearing nodes in handshake state from a big redis cluster?Tue, 02 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitsnacker.com/posts/best-book-recommendation/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/best-book-recommendation/A list of books I've liked, read or want you to read.Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitsnacker.com/posts/best-tech-blogs-for-2024/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/best-tech-blogs-for-2024/A list of blogs I follow, like, and definitely worth your timeSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitsnacker.com/posts/tools-of-the-software-development-craft/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/tools-of-the-software-development-craft/A list of tools/frameworks available for building awesome softwareSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitsnacker.com/posts/airflow-webserver-auth-with-google-sso/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/airflow-webserver-auth-with-google-sso/Authenticating airflow webserver deployed through Helm and Google SSOFri, 03 May 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitsnacker.com/posts/backend-developer-roadmap-resources-skills/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/backend-developer-roadmap-resources-skills/Backend development roadmap, skills and resources listed are an ever updating list of useful resources, a beginner's guide to backend development with relevant resources for each section. This guide will help you with how to learn backend development.Sun, 21 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitsnacker.com/posts/redis-performance-mget-vs-get/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/redis-performance-mget-vs-get/Redis mget vs get performance comparison on local hardware. Redis is a single threaded application used for caching.Fri, 22 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitsnacker.com/posts/loading-sql-data-into-neo4j/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/loading-sql-data-into-neo4j/Loading data from SQL database to neo4j graph database can be useful in many ways.Sat, 16 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitsnacker.com/posts/brief-note-on-debugging/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/brief-note-on-debugging/How hard it can be to debug a production bug? or in a live system? How can you debug software quickly and efficiently?Fri, 15 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitsnacker.com/posts/redis-performance-hmget-pipeline-vs-mget/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/redis-performance-hmget-pipeline-vs-mget/Redis mget vs hmget(pipeline) performance comparison on local hardwareSat, 23 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitsnacker.com/posts/nodejs-single-threaded/https://bitsnacker.com/posts/nodejs-single-threaded/Is Node.js really single threaded? If it is single threaded, how is it asynchronous?Sun, 26 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT