Shipping Stuff

By Ian Wootten

I'm Ian, a developer from Cardiff, UK. Here I cover my story and others on the tools and code behind developers shipping great products. Every issue, I share some thoughts and compile the most interesting links I've discovered since last time.

Previous issues

On Working as a Pipeline Developer

#12 Jul 11, 2021

Getting Paid as a Technical Author

#11 Jun 27, 2021

The Dependencies You Never Knew About

#10 Jun 13, 2021

#9

May 30, 2021

Removing Distractions to Focus – Twitter is a cruel mistress. In the one hand you can engage with a fantastic network, enjoy a constan
#8

May 16, 2021

You Probably Don't Need Kubernetes – Over this past fortnight I attended Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe. I've used Kubernetes on a few la
#7

May 2, 2021

Reducing the Headache of Tax – Handling international tax collection has long been the missing feature from Stripe that every small
#6

Apr 18, 2021

What is the best Infrastructure for Bootstrapped SaaS? – Welcome back to your fortnightly retrospective on all the most interesting stories and code from peop
#5

Apr 4, 2021

Remember to Take Time Off – This past week I celebrated my second lockdown birthday. I was lucky enough to be given many gifts fr
#4

Mar 21, 2021

Should you quit your job to work full time on projects? – Hey,Being independent, I'm able to make my own choices about how much client work I take on. I've str
#3

Mar 7, 2021

The Problem with all Payment Providers – Hi there,These last two weeks I’ve seen multiple articles asking how to correctly collect VAT as a So
#2

Feb 21, 2021

Standing Out in a Sea of Noise – Welcome to the second issue of "Shipping Stuff". As I write this, it is a grey and rainy morning outs
#1

Feb 7, 2021

Why Side Project Time is Never Wasted – Hello there. Welcome to my very first issue of "Shipping Stuff". You're one of the very first in my o