as per my last email 📧

To those who wonder, this simple website is basically collection of notes I wrote in plain HTML, cobbled up into proper homepage based on an HTML template, using JS. I use Bun as the main build tool. Styling is plain CSS. No other frameworks or database is used (so, no React, Svelte, nor Tailwind), I may consider adding database when a feature needs it.

Mon Jun 24 2024 - 5:42:14 AM

One of the first thing that struck me when first transitioning into Product Manager role is this: I get to do more design as PM, compared to being a designer. I can drive the direction and shape of the product. I can craft the desired goal and experience. If those are not design, I don't know what else.

Mon Jun 24 2024 - 5:42:14 AM

The true competitor of an internal developer portal: Slack and Spreadsheet, where tacit knowledge are one message away and visibility to information is one click away. If you're looking for self service capability benchmark, those are the measuring sticks. See if you can beat the efficiency of current practice.

Mon Jun 24 2024 - 5:42:14 AM

Platform is a mindset. Here's why:

1. In a modern software engineering practice, it makes sense to craft software as a platform. Engineers are tasked to create working system, where everyone from different roles can contribute to the end product in a self service manner. Marketing can easily add a page or change a copywriting to a specific section, test it in staging, and get approval from the PM before seeing this change goes into production.
2. This approach allows domain owners to be within arms length of the product feedback loop, instead of waiting for days for changes to happen
3. First, make it work (this is the MVP), then make it collaborative

Mon Jun 24 2024 - 5:42:14 AM

Modern software engineering is a team sport.

Mon Jun 24 2024 - 5:42:14 AM