Mike Bifulco

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Steven Miller tripe

Your least educated neighbors and relatives voted for this

Lovely use of typeface here 🤌

We're definitely skipping SOTU, right?

Literally anything else is a better use of your time.

No matter how good I get at DevOps, it's always a new nightmare when things start to break.

Neat.

Learn to Love the Rebuild | Mike Bifulco Refactoring isn't a necessary evil -- it is the job. Why the best product teams rebuild constantly, at every scale.

Building software means falling in love with the process of building something and then _rebuilding_ it.

Once that realization hits, it becomes very meditative 🧘

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Is REST Dead... Again? API Developers debate the benefits of REST vs JSON-RPC when working with LLMs. Also in this newsletter: the politics of building APIs, FastAPI's continued growth, a comparison of serverless cold star...

API Developers debate the benefits of REST vs JSON-RPC when working with LLMs. Also in this newsletter: the politics of building APIs, FastAPI's continued growth, a comparison of serverless cold start times, and more!

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Console.app for MacOS

Go ahead, open it up and try to figure out how to narrow down logs to your favorite app.

For example: Did you know MacOS’s Console.app can show you Live Logs from an IOS device plugged in via USB? The only catch is because it is on the OS made by the best software designers in the world, it is an absolute inscrutable nightmare to use.

Spent nearly all of yesterday trying to debug an expo app that silently froze on its splash screen in production.

A very long, very frustrating day- and while I'm not confident I understand why things broke, I now have a much better grip on the process to investigate/debug expo apps while they run.

Just Enough Is an Ongoing Practice | Mike Bifulco Stable products still need maintenance. Defaults and shiny features quietly tax systems over time, and efficiency is a sign of craftsmanship, not penny-pinching.

In our world, a stable product is not a finished product. It is simply a product that now requires a different kind of care.

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Just Enough is an Ongoing Practice

Landing in your inbox in about an hour - a rumination on fixing stability problems, and the maintenance part of the product lifecycle.

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:

"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

Hi Lee! I'm excited to learn from you!

Hahaha That's never good! 😂

2026 Winter Olympics: Skater cannot perform to Minions music in Milan - BBC Sport

Say it ain't so

Popping in to share a link someone sent me recently - you can request an expedited app review from Apple here: developer.apple.com/contact/app-...

This is great, thank you!

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My 2026 Developer Tech Stack | Mike Bifulco The tools I use as CTO and product engineer at a Y Combinator-backed startup in 2026.

This year, my work shifted from "write code" to "orchestrate systems."

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One of my tasks this week: become an expert on how Google Ads revenue reporting should work, end to end.

I've always felt like it's a specialist domain -- but it's time to learn.

Anyone have any recs for people to follow? Particularly experts in local search ads for service businesses.

Hah, I feel you - I'm sure my eyes will betray me one day... but for now I favor small and compact. 14" is just right for me. It's not too bad for traveling (I'd love a lighter device, personally), and at my desk I plug into 2x 27" displays and close the laptop screen anyway.

Hi Redowan! I am a big fan of Go... but I've never built a go project from scratch. I did help maintain a Go library for a bit - super fun learning experience.

Love to see it! Nice to meet you Robin!

My 2025 Developer Tech Stack | Mike Bifulco A list of the tools and tech I use as a professional product engineer in 2025.

Putting together my 2026-flavored tools-i-use post this weekend. My how things have changed in the past year...

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Thanks for maintaining this, @brittanyellich.com! 🫰🏼

Making lots of new friends thanks to this starter pack. If you're a dev writer / video maker / devrel, I'd love to follow you! Hit me with a reply👋

Your branding is 🤌 so good. Just subscribed - looking forward to more of these!

Thanks for sharing, Matt!

It's never too late! :)