In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Daily.dev’s Francesco Ciulla about the platform's history, community features, and significant growth. They dive into the core ideas behind daily.dev, including its personalized feed for developers, new features like squads, community contributions, and tech stack. Francesco also shares his passion for Rust, and highlights the importance of content creation in the ever-evolving tech landscape.

Show Notes

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 00:36 Brought to you by Sentry.io
• 01:24 Overview and features of daily.dev
• 07:05 daily.dev's origin story
• 10:06 How Product Hunt fueled initial growth
• 12:21 Monetization and business model
• 13:53 Content and user experience
  • Syntax Squad
• 22:21 Written content vs video content
• 24:29 Tech stack
  • Terraform
  • Pulumi
  • React
  • Vercel
  • Fastify
  • Postgres
  • Go
• 25:37 Building a positive community
• 30:32 Moderation and tagging
• 35:03 Francesco's favorite place to publish right now
• 36:56 Quadrupling down on Rust
  • Rust
• 39:38 Francesco's favorite Rust framework
  • Actix
• 41:18 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs

Sick Picks

• Francesco: daily. dev

Shameless Plugs

• Francesco: Francesco's YouTube Channel

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