Flow

An update on my journey tackling developer tool chaos with a personal automation platform. 6 weeks of building desktop apps, cryptographic vaults, and feature planning at Recurse Center.

Over the last couple of years, I have been having fun experimenting with ways to streamline my developer experience. This may largely stem from my Developer Experience (DevX) focus as a software / platform engineer in the CarGurus DevX organization. (side note: Check out this blog post I wrote on how we supercharged the experience for our Product Engineers) However, the challenges that I face at work and on my side projects aren’t quite the same as the ones faced by CarGurus product engineers. I started to find myself drowning in a sea of scattered commands, scripts, and tools. This, combined with my desire to find opportunities to learn more about Go patterns and libraries in a low-risk way, motivated me to invest some free time developing an “integrated development platform” - or at least the foundations for one! ...

Flow is a local-first developer platform designed around composable YAML “executables”, built-in secret management, and cross-project automation.