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> Dependencies should be updated according to your development cycle, not the cycle of each of your dependencies. For example you might want to update dependencies all at once when…

Figuring out whether the upgrade is safe is a hard problem. I've found renovate most successful in frontend JS projects where you have a ton of dependencies all with new versions c…

TLDR: We created an open database of every gem version that’s silently incompatible with Rails.

hey all! for anyone interested in open source, my team just launched a substack called Once a Maintainer. Each week we interview a maintainer and ask them about the work that they …

lol yeah we need more Juiceros

- don't talk over women in meetings - don't ask women to do informal "secretarial work" for the group, e.g. note-taking, summarizing meetings, ordering the Christmas cards, buying …

Congrats on the launch! Beautiful site. I'd like more info about how you ship the art before buying. I found your FAQ after a little digging, but it didn't really give me comfort t…

I missed this comment earlier - we can pilot with sample/fake data to give the user a sense of how the system works and what workflows within it work best for their company. The ve…

Interesting, I just came across Frictionless recently as part of the FISD group that's trying to implement a set of standards across the financial industry for documenting datasets…

We actually built in the concept of "display names" for exactly this purpose. You want to keep the actual field name in the schema so that ingestion works properly, but you also wa…

We would love to do that at some point. There is tons of open data out there, but not a lot of it has useful descriptions at the field level (only the dataset level), so it would t…

This made our day : ) Thank you!

We think data-as-a-service is a new and growing category, and this includes startups we would consider "pure" data companies (e.g. a company that sells data on airfares across the …

(This is Allison) - thank you! It's interesting for us to see how the problem is handled at different types of organizations, because as you point out the data team knows the under…