Writing about building companies, the craft of code, and the messy middle in between.https://www.jamesperkins.dev/en-ushttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/flue-agent-framework-with-unkey/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/flue-agent-framework-with-unkey/The Agent Harness Framework with UnkeySun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTengineeringfluedeploying on unkeyhttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/mumps-is-everywhere/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/mumps-is-everywhere/TIL that engineers don't know what MUMPS isFri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTtilengineeringhttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/deploy-with-unkey/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/deploy-with-unkey/Ship APIs, not infrastructureThu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTengineeringapishttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/what-we-learnt-from-vercel-breach/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/what-we-learnt-from-vercel-breach/Compromise through OAuth with maximum impactSun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTengineeringvercelhttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/why-unkey-stays-open-source/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/why-unkey-stays-open-source/AI and open source isn't easySun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTthoughtthoughtshttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/beyond-the-grind-why-early-stage-founders-need-a-life/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/beyond-the-grind-why-early-stage-founders-need-a-life/Early stage founders need a life.Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTthoughtthoughtshttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/we-built-a-better-auth-abstraction-layer/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/we-built-a-better-auth-abstraction-layer/Open source projects live and die by friction. So we built auth abstraction layer to make it easier.Sun, 17 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTthoughtthoughtshttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/build-dont-just-babble/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/build-dont-just-babble/Talking to users is beneficial but talking to hundreds is just noise that hides signals.Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTthoughtthoughtshttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/ratelimiting-trpc-with-unkey/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/ratelimiting-trpc-with-unkey/Ratelimiting tRPC with Unkey is easier, faster and more consistent then Redis based ratelimitingFri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTengineeringtoolshttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/unlock-literal-types-the-magic-of-as-const-in-typescript/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/unlock-literal-types-the-magic-of-as-const-in-typescript/as const assertion should be used more often.Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTengineeringtypescripthttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/fundraising-doesnt-always-go-to-plan/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/fundraising-doesnt-always-go-to-plan/Raising funds is a wild game of ups and downs and sometimes it doesn't truly go to plan.Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTthoughtthoughtshttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/rate-limiting-nextjs/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/rate-limiting-nextjs/Ratelimiting with Unkey is easyTue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTengineeringtypescripthttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/zed-edit-predictions/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/zed-edit-predictions/Zed predictions allows a user to quickly edit filesFri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMTengineeringzedhttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/dollar-analytics/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/dollar-analytics/One Dollar Stats is built from my favorite ORM team over at Drizzle.Mon, 06 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTengineeringtoolshttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/cli-auth-with-unkey/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/cli-auth-with-unkey/CLI auth with UnkeyWed, 03 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMTengineeringtypescripthttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/posthog-web-analytics/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/posthog-web-analytics/Post hog is built to figure out your users.Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMTengineeringtoolshttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/why-flag-parameters-suck/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/why-flag-parameters-suck/flag parameters suckMon, 05 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTengineeringtypescripthttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/cli-with-clack/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/cli-with-clack/Clack is a Typescript CLI toolMon, 22 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTengineeringtypescripttoolshttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/dropping-user-tables-2023/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/dropping-user-tables-2023/A tenant table is all you needSun, 07 May 2023 00:00:00 GMTengineeringtoolshttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/learning-the-terminal-with-lazy-git/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/learning-the-terminal-with-lazy-git/Lazygit is a great TUI for git.Sat, 08 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMTengineeringtoolshttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/conventional-commits/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/conventional-commits/Conventional commits a great for concise messaging.Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMTengineeringtoolshttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/zed-lightweight-ide/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/zed-lightweight-ide/Zed lightweight IDE built for collaborationThu, 09 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMTengineeringzedhttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/houseform-forms-made-easy/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/houseform-forms-made-easy/Simplify Form Creation in ReactFri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMTengineeringtoolshttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/vercel-cron/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/vercel-cron/Vercel has finally dropped Cron jobs for your applicationFri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMTengineeringtoolshttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/webhook-thing/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/webhook-thing/Webhook thing, for testing webooksFri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMTengineeringtoolshttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/understanding-assignability-in-typescript/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/understanding-assignability-in-typescript/Learn about assignability Sun, 25 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMTengineeringtypescripthttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/zod-typesafe-user-input/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/zod-typesafe-user-input/Zod a schema declaration and validation libraryTue, 22 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMTengineeringtypescripthttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/did-nextjs-team-fumble-next13/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/did-nextjs-team-fumble-next13/The newest release of Next.js seems to have lost it way.Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMTthoughttoolshttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/youtube-creation-vscode/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/youtube-creation-vscode/Keep your content creation separation from your code. Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMTengineeringtoolshttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/using-next-middleware-for-geolocation/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/using-next-middleware-for-geolocation/Geolocation is easy with middleware. Sun, 22 May 2022 00:00:00 GMTengineeringtypescripthttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/page-reload-with-ssr/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/page-reload-with-ssr/Reloading with SSR without refetchpropsFri, 01 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMTengineeringtypescripthttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/chakra-prose/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/chakra-prose/Chakra prose is here to make markdown easier than ever to style.Sun, 27 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMTengineeringthoughtstoolshttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/page-to-page-loading-in-next/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/page-to-page-loading-in-next/Learn how to handle moving between pages and loading dataTue, 22 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMTengineeringtypescripthttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/next-date-type-data-fetching/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/next-date-type-data-fetching/Date objects need to be treated properly.Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMTengineeringtypescripthttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/daisyui-make-tailwind-components-with-ease/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/daisyui-make-tailwind-components-with-ease/DaisyUI allows you to use tailwind with simplified classnamesThu, 21 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMTengineeringtoolshttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/force-reload-next-pages/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/force-reload-next-pages/In some circumstances, you might need to force refresh a pageTue, 12 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMTengineeringtypescripthttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/developer-relations-what-do-we-do/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/developer-relations-what-do-we-do/Developers relations / advocacy is a role that is a mix of Sales, Marketing, Developer and Educator.Wed, 21 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMTthoughtthoughtshttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/create-content-to-solidify-your-knowledge/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/create-content-to-solidify-your-knowledge/Creating content can help solidify your knowledgeMon, 05 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMTthoughtthoughtshttps://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/pick-a-language-and-do-something/https://www.jamesperkins.dev/post/pick-a-language-and-do-something/What language should I pick firstWed, 04 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMTthoughtthoughts