Daniel Lopes

Trunk-based development, feature branches, and what teams running agents actually do

A study guide to trunk-based development, feature branches, and what teams are doing now that AI agents write most of the code.

Sep 5 • Daniel Lopes

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August 2026

Apple history, behind the scenes: 50 stories from the people who built the Mac, NeXT, iPod and iPhone

Fifty stories from the CHM oral histories: how they got stuck, who said no, and what it cost to ship.

Aug 30 • Daniel Lopes

Apple History: how a failed company saved Apple

Apple bought NeXT for its operating system, not its CEO. Within a year the acquired company was running the acquirer.

Aug 30 • Daniel Lopes

Apple History in Their Own Words: A Guide to Oral Histories and Archival Footage

Every recorded interview with the people who rebuilt the company

Aug 29 • Daniel Lopes

Spec-driven development: what it is and how we do it differently

Definition + how we approach SDD here at GrowthX

Aug 28 • Daniel Lopes

How to define your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP)

An in-depth study guide to ideal customer profiles: what they are, what they aren't, and how to build one.

Aug 24 • Daniel Lopes

Paul Graham's essays, as audio

A collection of Paul Graham's essays, converted to audio for listening on the go.

Aug 24 • Daniel Lopes

Highlights from Hartmut Esslinger's Oral History

A Computer History Museum oral history, converted to audio: 85 minutes with the designer behind Apple's industrial design before Jony Ive.

Aug 22 • Daniel Lopes

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August 2025

EDD: Evals Driven Development

The ideal LLM-dev environment that I wish was easier to do…

Aug 10, 2025 • Daniel Lopes

December 2024

Prompt engineering in 2026: what still holds up

Role prompting lost its accuracy claim, self-consistency collapsed, chain-of-thought got narrower. Re-scoring 58 techniques against two years of…

Dec 22, 2024 • Daniel Lopes

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Joining GrowthX

We hiring founding engineers

Dec 19, 2024 • Daniel Lopes

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September 2024

7-Powers book notes

While mentoring the current Techstars cohort that I’m working with, I see myself mentioning Hamilton Helmer's book over and over.

Sep 19, 2024 • Daniel Lopes

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