Semicolon & Sons

Semicolon & Sons screencasts are aimed at programmers and share what we've learned in building software for ourselves and our clients.

When you run your own software business, there are things you gotta know that regular programmers don't:

- choosing technologies that'll provide stability and a long shelf-life over fad frameworks that'll just create busy work (e.g. use SQL unless you have a damn good reason not to; you might not need a JS framework at all)
- technical systems to improve the stability of your code at minimal cost in time -- knowing what to integration test, exception notification systems, downtime monitors 
- how to get people to your website en-masse with SEO, paid ads, etc. -- ideally in a way that leverages your edge in automation.

For written tutorial see here: https://www.semicolonandsons.com

Semicolon & Sons

Learn Vim

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Advanced Vim Workflows

Vim's Versatile CLI

Vim Autocomplete Mini-Overview

IDE-like Refactors, Snippets, Tests, Hover Documentation, Commenting, and Git

Fluent File Navigation

How I organize my .vimrc and keep track what my vim is capable of.

System Design

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Continuous Integration Testing: Basics + What to Test

Error Tracking & Monitoring Part I/II

Integration Testing Best Practices Part I

Website Monitoring Tools I: Monit and Syslog Alerts

Website Monitoring Tools II: APMs, HTTP status aggregated stats

Production Logs: How To Get The Most Out Of Them