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Hey! Do you still love the idea of programming/building stuff? Was your successful startup the product you always dreamt of building? (Or at least you had other ideas you didn’t pu…

"God does not play dice with the universe." If you take a minute to think how software is written an how you take the resulting product for granted, quantum physics starts making s…

https://github.com/yoonic My open-source e-commerce platform all in Javascript. Backend is an API powered by Hapi.js (node.js) and Storefront is a React isomorphic app.

There's more to the payment world than Stripe vs Braintree :) Actually, there's more to payments than cards! In many countries, local alternative payment methods account for more t…

If you consider the "infinite" of space and, especially, time, I believe that the probability of the existence of (at least) one "inteligent" species capable of reaching any given …

It is a new kind of approach to software development: SFAQL. Shoot First, Address Questions Later. I bet this kind of decisions are a consequence of MBA/Excel mindset. Developing s…

These days it is inconceivable to make any webapp, big or small, without some kind of Javascript MV* framework. IMHO Backbone is a great choice as it isn't too opinionated to start…

Seeing how software is developed and how everyday that goes by our life depends more on it, I'm afraid that the next world meltdown won't be caused by a war but by bad software. No…

Can this be the homebrew-hardware-gadgets equivalent to the Apple AppStore?

SOA will save the world! :) Great overview on REST, specially for those who have heard of it but never took the time to understand it and end up making some honest "mistakes".

The idea behind statz.me is basically a way of keeping track of pretty much everything you can think of. Since this is a "prototype" I've put up in my spare time in the last 2 mont…