Words are good, so here is our history.

Making Developers Wealthy

By Jeffrey M. Barber

On a lark, I created better looking welcome emails and forgot password emails with the phrase “Engineered Wealth” as part of it. Ultimately, I’m creating a platform, and my early customers are friends that I’m helping to create wealth for. The awful aspect of early retirement is that it’s lonely as a bulk of your friends are unable to spend many nights playing board games. Board games are life! The open question is whether the wealth I’m building for my friends is more broadly applicable, and this has me thinking about my ideal customer profile.

How to build a Reddit Clone with Replit and Adama

By Gold Agbonifo Isaac

If you’re a developer who loves using Replit for development, you’re in for a treat! In this article, we’ll walk you through the process of creating your very own Reddit clone using Replit and Adama.

Multi-region progress ;)

By Jeffrey M. Barber

I’ve made some progress in getting multi-region closer to a finish line. At this stage, the primary value proposition of multi-region is reducing latency by putting machines closer to people. There are future stages which I’ll touch on briefly like availability and surviving disasters, but those are out of scope. (Honestly, multi-region should be out of scope).

In praise of DSLs; joy to those working in restricted domain!

By Jeffrey M. Barber

An element of the technical strategy that I focus on is limiting the scope of the battlefield. If you attest a desire towards simplicity, then discipline in focusing the battlefield is essential. This may seem paradoxical given the scope of this platform, but this platform is way simpler than other stacks out there. While it is true that I’ve taken on a tremendous engineering burden, I believe this is preferable to letting the inmates run the asylum. Case in point, I upgraded my ubuntu (for reasons), and this site just plain broke…

Scaling teams up around Adama

By Jeffrey M. Barber

As I’m building a product with others now, the current model of development doesn’t scale that well. Today, I’m going to discuss a vision of scaling up a team around my platform.

Hiring process without the dreaded hazing at a white-board.

By Jeffrey M. Barber

Unlike many engineers, I love the white-board process since it is a dog and pony show for demonstrating exceptional fundamentals of computer science… And, I’m a beautiful and majestic unicorn, but the process only applies to less than five percent of people in a company. Big tech needs that process so that they have a stable population of people that can fight for promotions which creates the honey for the business. Since I’m neither big tech and don’t desire to place the chains of employment on people, I want a more ideal process.