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Richard Oliver Bray
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Making content at @betterstack.com Father of 2, married to 1. Saved by grace.
I've been messing around with Remix 3 for a few hours, and I finally got this to work 🙌

Man, I can't wait for there to be proper documentation on this framework.
November 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Today I created a Rails app, and I haven't done that since 2012. Let me tell you, a lot has changed in 13 years!
November 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Just working on the final touches for this video. Stay tuned to find out when it gets released. It should be this weekend🤞
October 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
If you use @dailydotdev.bsky.social I've created a public squad with all the Hacking Scale articles.

dly.to/Ax9N1cW5ova
December 11, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Wait, so you can earn money on @Reddit now! When was this a thing?
December 11, 2024 at 10:29 AM
📣 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...
December 3, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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.
December 2, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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

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November 28, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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.
November 26, 2024 at 10:28 AM
This is embarrassing. Before last week, I had never connected a server to NGINX before 🤯

Most of my roles have been FE and for my first full stack role this stuff was already setup.

It's not that complex, but it's given me a better understanding of how it works.

Still prefer Caddy though 😅
November 25, 2024 at 12:37 PM
Last night I finished writing the 1st draft of a future article for Hacking Scale and my head is spinning.

The Stripe team honestly have one of the most complicated database setups I have ever seen.

Can't wait to share this and get your thoughts.
November 19, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Been messing around with Hono recently and let me tell you, being able to write server side JSX is so nice 🤩
November 11, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Trying out the whole text behind me thing for my next video. Seems to be working well. Can't wait to share it.
November 9, 2024 at 8:11 PM
This is unbelievable, just over 3 months and Hacking Scale has more than 3K subscribers 🤩

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November 8, 2024 at 5:50 PM
I'm sorry this can't be right. $126k for 0-1 year of experience!!!

app.comprehensive.io/benchmarking...
November 7, 2024 at 12:31 PM
Use this trick to calculate accurate floating point numbers in JS.

Or any other programming language.
November 6, 2024 at 12:35 PM
If you're still using git checkout and have a branch called 492d4b or index.js, be careful 🙏
October 25, 2024 at 11:41 AM
You know you're doing something right when another newsletter shares your article. 👇

tldr.tech/devops/2024-...

Thank you TLDR Newsletter 🙌
October 25, 2024 at 9:26 AM
One of the things stopping me from using Deno
October 23, 2024 at 9:05 AM