Karl L. Hughes

Former startup CTO turned writer. Founder of Draft.dev

Chicago, IL Joined on Jun 20, 2018 https://www.karllhughes.com

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Karl L. Hughes

Nov 9 '21

Becoming a Senior Software Engineer

#career #beginners

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Karl L. Hughes

Oct 13 '21

API Development: The Complete Guide for Building APIs Without Code

21 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Oct 7 '21

The Startup Tools I Can't Live Without

5 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Sep 29 '21

Managing Direct Reports at a Startup

9 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Sep 22 '21

Introduction to Publii, the Static Site Generator

7 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Sep 16 '21

SEO Keyword Opportunities in Developer Marketing

7 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Sep 8 '21

Hugo vs. Gatsby

8 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Sep 1 '21

Running My Business From an iPad

5 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Aug 25 '21

10 Technical Writing Style Guides You Can Use

9 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Aug 19 '21

The Entrepreneur's Salary Guide

12 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Aug 12 '21

How We Found Our First 30 Clients

9 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Aug 4 '21

Field Guide to Technical Editing

8 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Jul 28 '21

Recruiting and Hiring Software Engineers

13 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Jul 21 '21

What to Expect from a Coding Bootcamp

7 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Jul 15 '21

26 Low-Cost Content Marketing Ideas

10 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Jul 7 '21

Alternatives to Basecamp for Project Management

8 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Jul 1 '21

Jekyll vs. WordPress

7 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Jun 25 '21

Setting Up a Custom 404 Page with GitHub Pages

6 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Jun 17 '21

Hands on with Developer Marketing

8 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Jun 10 '21

How I'm Scaling My Service Business

8 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Jun 3 '21

The Best Startup Project Management Tools

9 min read

Karl L. Hughes

May 27 '21

Writing Less Software to Accomplish More

8 min read

Karl L. Hughes

May 19 '21

Building a Business Without Slack

7 min read

Karl L. Hughes

May 12 '21

Building a Great Startup Culture

11 min read

Karl L. Hughes

May 5 '21

The Best Engineering Blogs

11 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Apr 28 '21

The Best Software Engineering Books

11 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Apr 23 '21

6 Tips for B2D Marketing

7 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Apr 12 '21

The Bulk of Software Engineering is Just Plumbing

6 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Apr 3 '21

What to do After Your Coding Bootcamp

#bootcamp #beginners #codenewbie

6 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Apr 3 '21

How Do Open Source Companies Make Money?

#opensource

8 min read

Karl L. Hughes for Fabric

Mar 20 '21

Moving from Salesforce Commerce Cloud to Microservices-Based Commerce

#microservices #ecommerce #technology

8 min read

Karl L. Hughes for Draft

Feb 4 '21

The Best Software Development Blogs

#blogs #software #development #tips

9 min read

Karl L. Hughes for Draft

Feb 3 '21

The Best Golang Blogs

#go #blogs

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Karl L. Hughes

Jan 31 '21

How to Write Better Technical Content

#writingguides

17 min read

Karl L. Hughes for Fabric

Dec 21 '20

Building vs. Buying a Product Information Manager: Part 1 - Product Variation

#webdev #programming #computerscience #database

8 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Dec 19 '20

Startup Working Hours: Burnout, Pacing, and Hustle Culture

#startup #culture #management #balance

8 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Dec 16 '20

Testing Microservices: A Layered Testing Strategy

#testing #microservices

8 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Dec 7 '20

Defining Trends of the 2020s

#startup #trends #2020s

16 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Nov 23 '20

The Importance of Software Testing

#development #testing #qa

8 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Nov 19 '20

The Best DevOps Blogs

#technicalblogs #devops #programming

11 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Nov 17 '20

The Best Ruby Blogs

#ruby #technicalblogs #programming

7 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Nov 16 '20

22 Great Books for Startup CTOs

#management #startup #books

13 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Nov 14 '20

The Reason Software Engineers Should Write

#softwareengineering

7 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Nov 4 '20

The Best JavaScript Blogs

#javascript #technicalblogs #programming

13 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Nov 2 '20

A Day in the Life of an Engineering Manager

#management #engineering #leadership

7 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Nov 2 '20

Email Marketing Tools for Startups

#marketingtools #emailmarketing #startup

6 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Oct 27 '20

The Danger in Listening to Experts

#advice #experience #experts

11 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Oct 26 '20

The Best PHP Blogs

#programming #technicalblogs #php

15 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Oct 15 '20

3 Steps For Coming Up With Technical Content Ideas

#blogging #marketing #technicalcontent #writing

3 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Oct 5 '20

The Best Python Blogs

14 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Sep 29 '20

How to Start Freelance Technical Blogging

#career #jobs #freelance #writing

5 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Sep 17 '20

Building a Response Timer to Benchmark API Performance

#benchmarks #performance #docker #curl

5 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Sep 14 '20

Don't Think About Marketing Your Side Project

#sideprojects #marketing #startup

3 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Aug 17 '20

Why I Left a Career as a Startup CTO to Become a Writer

#writing #startup #entrepreneurship

7 min read

Karl L. Hughes for StackPath

Aug 3 '20

Pwnd Password Checking on the Edge

#security #hosting #stackpath #haveibeenpwned

6 min read

Karl L. Hughes for Draft

Jul 19 '20

The 3 Questions You Should Ask Before Starting a Technical Blog

#writing #blogging

4 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Dec 27 '19

Debugging Gmail's "Suspicious link" Warnings

#email #images #security #gmail

6 min read

Karl L. Hughes

Jul 19 '19

Filtering Many Options on the Frontend

#javascript #frontend #filtering #designpatterns

2 min read

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