Taimur Abdaal
Product, Growth, Writing
Articles
Building a version-controlled S3 file manager in Retool
Contents: 1. Background 2. Versioning overview 3. Connecting to S3 4. Reading files from S3 5. Uploading files to S3 6. Building our version control system 7. Drilling down into a file 8. Adding finishing touches 9. Adding finishing touches 10. Using the app Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched in 2006 with a single offering — the Simple Storage Service (S3). It aimed to let anyone store and retrieve any amount of data, anytime, from anywhere. By any standards, S3 isn’t
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Typography for developers
You may have read the title for this post and thought, "Why on earth does a developer need to know anything about typography?" I mean, there’s already a lot on your plate and you’re making hundreds of decisions a day. Should you use React or Vue? npm or Yarn? ES6 or ES7? Sadly, this often leaves something like type as an afterthought. But, let’s remember that web design is 95% typography: 95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer sh
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What's Salesforce?
Customer relationship management (CRM) is the biggest, fastest growing software market in the world. $40B is spent on CRMs annually, and almost all companies have one. But for those of us that don’t directly use a CRM… what’s the big deal? A CRM is the source-of-truth for all customer data and interactions. Need to know what features your salesperson promised, and when? How much revenue you have from each customer? Or which salesperson sold the most in the past year? Check the CRM. Your CRM is
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Connecting Google Sheets to APIs, and building apps with Retool
Spreadsheets are great for some things, but bad at others. Retool fills in those gaps. You can build apps on top of the data you have in Sheets with Retool. It lets you create polished UIs by dragging and dropping commonly-used components, and your apps can connect to almost any data source.
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Build tools and admin panels on top of Firebase
How to build a Firebase admin panel in 3 minutes—and how to supercharge Firebase apps with your own custom tools. Demo included!
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The technology that changed air travel
A lot has changed about air travel since it went mainstream in the 1930s. On-board smoking, free-flowing booze, and five-star meals have given way to baggage fees, cramped seats, and mystery meat. Through all this change, one thing has stayed the same — the software that manages it all.
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2023 web admin panel comparison
Database GUI clients, frontend admin libraries, backend admin frameworks or 3rd-party admin tools: which is best for building your admin panel?
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Bicycles for the mind: The Slide Rule
At the turn of the 16th century, Johannes Kepler set out to disprove Copernicus, who believed planets orbited in perfect, concentric circles from the sun. Kepler first formulated his hypothesis: planets had elliptical orbits with two foci, and then set out to prove it mathematically. 4 years and 900 pages of calculations later, he confirmed his theory by determining Mars’s true orbit. The proof was impressive. But it was remarkable that Kepler managed it — his calculations were riddled with mi
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