Hi, I'm Nicole van der Hoeven. I'm a Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs. I've spent my career making software faster as a performance engineer, but I'm also a YouTuber. I write stuff, film and produce videos, speak at conferences, and otherwise just generally learn in public. This site is a home for everything I'm doing on the interwebs. I currently live between two places: Portugal and the Netherlands.

I loved this interview and showcase of Lynn Hill on Climbing Gold. She describes the beauty and challenge of movement in rock climbing so well in this clip:

I’m a Designer, front-end developer, educator, founder of Set Studio and founder of Piccallili

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Shawn Hickman is a designer and developer who makes Sofa, an iOS app that helps you be more intentional with your downtime. He also has a YouTube channel that documents his progress building Sofa.

To say 2022 was the most life-changing year of my life would be an understatement. This was the year I became a father, and it changed everything.

Brief observations from web developer and author, Jeremy Keith.

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And this is my little home on the internet.

User research can be done at any point in the design cycle. This list of methods and activities can help you decide which to use when.

Reforge drives team performance, with the most actionable learning from vetted operators that your team will actually use and apply.

Exploring new and renewed ideas for how personal computing and the interfaces we think with can better serve people’s lives – expanding opportunity, agency, curiosity, and creativity.

The arun.is blog

Matt Ström-Awn · Designer, leader, and coach focused on building exceptional products and teams.

Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology

“10 Figma tips to make you a 10x designer: Read my thread 🧵” We have all seen these posts. They provide helpful tips and shortcuts for design tools.

Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect

Plain is the AI support stack built for B2B teams. Composable infrastructure that gives you complete flexibility to build a support motion that grows with your business — no-code or all-code.

Just JavaScript will help you develop a rock-solid understanding of how JavaScript works through intuitive visual explanations and learning challenges.