Dion Almaer

The Truth about Web Components and Frameworks

Have you noticed that there is a regular community.nextTick() that involves heated discussions around “Web Components vs. Frameworks” in some form or another. It can be frustrating to see the same topics repeatedly pop-up, but I find it interesting to dive into why it does so. A pattern I often see is a tension where […]

The Doomed Rewrite

It just happened again. I spoke to a company, with some great engineers, and they just experienced the doomed rewrite. I remember the days of the Monty Hall Rewrite, which is a situation I would much prefer to DOOM. With Monty Hall, you run into the following situation: A website uses a given tech stack. […]

Delight developers in ecosystem-enhancing, easy to copy ways

Gibson Biddle came to give a product leadership talk at Google and one section really stuck with me. He mentioned how he came up with a simple statement that packs into it the role of product, while he was VP of Product at Netflix: “Delight customers in margin-enhancing, hard to copy ways.” – Gib So […]