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Phil Freo

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Writing by Phil Freo on engineering leadership, product, startups, and the web.

Engineering management / careersSoftware / engineering practiceWeb developmentJavaScript / TypeScript

’10’15’20’25
Posts
103 from 1 Jun 2006 to 10 Nov 2025
Posting
now and then (1 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2025 4

  1. Developer Friction
  2. Management Sabbatical: Maker Time
  3. Paris Retreat
  4. LogRocket Leader Spotlight: Hiring and Scaling a Remote-First Team

2023 7

  1. On The Tech Trek: Retention for Engineering Teams
  2. Cold Sales
  3. Quoted in “Remote Works”
  4. Async Weeks
  5. Product Engineers
  6. Typefully Profile
  7. TreasuryDirect password field

2022 3

  1. Mini-Retreat
  2. Unlimited duration free trials in SaaS
  3. Reflect

2021 3

  1. Sabbaticals
  2. Running an Async All-Hands
  3. Tips for engineers giving demos

2020 3

  1. Introducing TeamHome
  2. Using Lambda@Edge to setup server-side redirects on a Cloudfront+S3 static site
  3. Should Engineering Managers Write Code?

2018 2

  1. When, Who, How to Hire an Engineering Team (including Hiring Remotely)
  2. Tips for effectively working remotely

2017 2

  1. My InsideSalesSummit interview: How sales and engineering teams should work together
  2. How to log Feature Requests

2015 6

  1. Don’t punish old trials and former customers
  2. Why you should Archive your emails when you’re done with them
  3. HackToStart Podcast
  4. The last 20% before shipping
  5. Solve multiple problems at once
  6. My mobile workstation setup

2014 5

  1. How one of my tweets landed Close.io a $585/month customer
  2. Launched: ArticleListen.com – integration between Pocket & Umano to hear your saved articles read aloud
  3. The Elements of User Onboarding
  4. My interview on Sales4Startups about Close.io
  5. Coinbase Bug Bounty Award

2013 9

  1. My IKEA standing desk
  2. How to view a color diff of text from two PDFs
  3. Render a PDF from html using xhtml2pdf and mimerender in Flask
  4. Sweating the UI & UX details in Close.io: Emails & Email Addresses
  5. My Backbone.js book published!
  6. The problem with pull requests / code reviews
  7. The startups and services behind Close.io
  8. Press around Close.io
  9. End of 2012 Review

2012 14

  1. Manage GitHub Issues milestones in Trello
  2. How to unit test AJAX Requests with QUnit and Sinon.JS
  3. How to allow direct file uploads from JavaScript to Amazon S3 signed by Python
  4. Guest post on TechCrunch: Full-Stack Web Team
  5. Launched Close.io – sales communication software
  6. Mac Software I Use
  7. Quick notes from Startup School 2012
  8. Stripe CTF 2.0 – Web Security
  9. Objective Process for Product Reviews
  10. Uploading static assets (CSS/JS) to S3 for CloudFront CDN
  11. PhilFreo.com v3 (and past versions)
  12. How to upgrade MacPorts to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
  13. Why is this so hard… Apple
  14. Two Years at Quizlet

2011 3

  1. Behind the scenes look at my work at Quizlet
  2. Wedding Website & Invitations
  3. Honestly.com – Not acting so honestly

2010 2

  1. New Job with Startup: Old School Industries
  2. Technologies I’ve worked with in 2009

2009 17

  1. Book Review: “jQuery 1.3 with PHP”
  2. Graduation thoughts: best classes at UF for Computer Engineering
  3. Largest website width to support 1024×768 resolution
  4. ExpressionEngine: “Freo Add-on Installer” makes installing add-ons a breeze
  5. Book Review: “Magento: Beginner’s Guide”
  6. Magento eCommerce – First Thoughts & Tips
  7. Fixing Safari’s 1px background-image centering bug
  8. Interesting TED Talk on Motivation
  9. Now I’m a PHP5 Zend Certified Engineer
  10. Greasemonkey script: Facebook Reorder Sidebar
  11. Google I/O Keynote 2009, day 2
  12. Notes from Google I/O Keynote 2009, day 1
  13. Standalone icons for Prism & Fluid: Gmail, GCal, & Wave
  14. WordPress Plugin: Arbitrary Shortcodes
  15. On OSX, svn: This client is too old to work with working copy ‘.’; please get a newer Subversion client
  16. Upgrading MySQL, PHP MySQL Client Version, phpMyAdmin
  17. Switch to MacBook Pro and OS X

2007 5

  1. Google Summer Internship Completed / Goodbye California
  2. Two Websites Launched
  3. Google Summer Internship
  4. Thoughts and Recap of SXSW
  5. SXSW & Business Cards

2006 18

  1. Some Advice for Facebook on Integration
  2. CSS Tabs, BrowserCam, and Temporary Email Addresses
  3. Yahoo! Time Capsule / Cali Fun / OpenDNS
  4. Update on Google Calendar
  5. New Website Launched – 24/7 Tutor
  6. Issues with Google Calendar
  7. Interesting School Projects
  8. Facebook, part 3
  9. “Facebook Notes”
  10. developers.facebook.com
  11. Look, I’m famous…
  12. Internship with Yahoo! Completed
  13. Yahoo! Corporate Blog Launched
  14. Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) JS Libraries updates released
  15. Some lessons on business from traveling
  16. Fun times in Cali – including BarCamp
  17. Yahoo! Summer Internship Offer
  18. Wohoo, a Blog – and a job with Yahoo!