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This is one of those "easy" things that should really be built into the CSS standard (as Josh points out in the article).

Neat, they have Newt, the robot my dad built that was the first mobile robot with its own onboard computer. Newt is still there in his basement, and as a kid I did science fair pro…

An incorrect assumption (though it was nice to have seen a familiar face when I came across it) but good to know what you think of it. I assumed HN deduped posts but I guess not.

I've found that once you make the jump to a real partitioned datastore (like DynamoDB) you can actually go back and undo a lot of the queues and caches that were used as band-aids …

The pattern I've always used for this, which I suspect is what they landed on, is to have an optimistic notification method in a separate message queue that says "something changed…

Slow startup was definitely one reason to have long lived servers, but I’m surprised not to see the major other reasons: - Keep-alive/pooled connections to remote services can sign…

The flip side of technical debt is, what tools do you have to actually solve technical debt? Some technical debt comes from conscious decisions to choose an expedient solution over…

We're using Go, so cross-compilation has never been a big problem (for producing artifacts). But this'll be great for testing on ARM. I'm interested to see the performance of these…

Nice article! Having used DynamoDB for some massive applications that first point really resonates - it feels like you need to put way too much effort into designing your data mode…

If you're interested in a MongoDB style document database, but don't like the fact that Mongo doesn't give you any tools around modeling your data, we're building a new database th…