Techtegrity

Tech Radar

A journey through tech — from MS-DOS in 1988 to AI agents today. 250 signals tracked.

2026
Voxtral
Paperclip
OpenClawMar 2026

Open source AI agent framework

RustDesk
2025
Dynadot
Stitch
Claude CodeMar 2025

Anthropic's CLI coding agent

Bolt
Tailscale
Replit
2024
Sora
Windsurf
StackBlitz
Render
Turso
Hugging Face
Claude
LM Studio
Coolify
2023
Grok
v0
Frontend Masters
Ollama
Cursor
PostHog
Replicate
Supabase
Neon
Upstash
Sanity
PikaPods
Cloudron
Perplexity
Drizzle ORM
2022
OpenAI
ChatGPTNov 2022

Early adopter — changed everything about how I work

PlanetScale
Railway
Midjourney
Vonage
Squarespace
GitHub Copilot
ngrok

React framework - now the foundation of techtegrity.com

Zod
Radix UI
2021
Ahrefs
Splunk Core Certified User
O'Reilly Media
Invoice Ninja
Certified Ethical Hacker
n8n
Postman
HubSpot
Hover
Jasper
Vercel
2020
Paddle
MongoDB
Canva
Bitwarden
Constant Contact
LinkedIn
ConvertKit
Auth0
Elementor
2019
LogRocket
Discord
Miro
HostGator
FullStory
Contentful
LambdaTest
Crisp
Unsplash
Zoom
Divi

Typed JavaScript - essential for serious projects

CompTIA Security+
2018
Clockify
Imgix
Airtable
Drift
Postmark
Synology
Netlify
DocuSign
Acuity Scheduling
CodePen
React2018

Component-based UI library that changed frontend development

TablePlus
2017
Kinsta
Tailwind CSSNov 2017

Utility-first CSS — never going back

Cloudinary
ClickUp
Pantheon
Webflow
Figma
BrowserStack
freeCodeCamp
Sketch
Egghead.io
Elasticsearch
Algolia
Brave
Amplitude
Calendly
Stripe
2016
Laravel Spark
Microsoft Teams
Hotjar
Tawk.to
WP Engine
GTmetrix
Vultr
Laravel Valet
2015
Firebase
Gusto
VS Code
Cloudways
SEMrush
Docker
MXToolbox
CodeCanyon
PandaDoc
LastPass
Azure
BigCommerce
HelloSign
Shopify
Heroku
Pluralsight
Google Partner
AWS SDK
2014
InVision
DNSimple
Salesforce
Mixpanel
Laravel Vapor
Joomla
Wix
Moz
Segment
Laravel Forge
Basecamp
Teamwork
Linode
Sentry
Datadog
Prismic
Slack
Xero
Envato
Masters in MIS2014

Management Information Systems from Nova Southeastern University

2013
New Relic
UptimeRobot
Bugsnag
Bluehost
GitLab
Ghost
Laracasts
Google Cloud
Fly.io
SiteGround
Cloudflare
Loom
Leanpub
Name.com
Pingdom
Treehouse
Packagist
Beatport
Mailgun
Atlassian
Sublime Text
Media Temple
Laravel Nova
AWS
Coursera
DigitalOcean
Sourcetree
2012
Twilio
IFTTT
Toggl
Packt
ThemeForest
Zapier
Udemy
Creative Market
Namecheap
Grammarly
Mailchimp
Wrike
Trello
Wave
Behance
Codecademy
Bitbucket
Freshdesk
FreshBooks
LaravelFeb 2012

Started at v3 — elegant and productive

JavaScript runtime that brought JS to the server

npm
Git
2011
SendGrid
Zendesk
Asana
WordPress.com
Square
Dribbble
Rackspace
Drupal
Box
DreamHost
2010
Elegant Themes
Dropbox
SourceForge
Nginx
2009
SoundCloud
Adobe Creative Cloud
GitHub
1Password
GoDaddy
PayPal
Zend Framework
CompTIA Network+
Cisco CCNA
2007
JavaScript
Apache
2006
Webmaster Tools
PHP2006

My first programming language

MySQL
2004
Directnic
Facebook

Built hundreds of sites on it

2003
Amazon
b2/cafelog
2002
CSS
2001
Dreamweaver
2000
eSoundz.com2000

My first business website — visitors could download audio files

I worked for Native Instruments — we opened the US office in Los Angeles

1999
HTML1999

Dove deeper into HTML

Emagic Logic
ReBirth
Fruity Loops
1996
56k Modem
1995
28.8k Modem
1993
14.4k Modem
1991
AOL
1988
My First Computer1988

Ran MS-DOS 3.x with a 9,600 baud modem. "It had BBSs and games — I mostly played the games but was curious about the BBSs."