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Google made $280B in revenue in 2022 which means this article is claiming that at least 1/3 of it (since they said over $92B) is coming from Android only. Does that align?

You are missing a few things about the Ruby based CLI: 1. dependencies for Gems are specified in the gemspec file and not the Gemfile. See https://github.com/Shopify/shopify-cli/bl…

This is an editorialized title. Bloomberg's is "Shopify Tells Employees to Just Say No to Meetings"

I'd guess very hard. But just refactoring the WordPress codebase isn't enough, you'd ideally want every plugin to adopt the new API as well... Although you could always keep this i…

I'm highly in favour of this, but wanted to point out an important implementation detail in case people don't want to look through the code. Since WordPress doesn't have a database…

There's an existing WP "drop-in" plugin that can be used with Composer: https://github.com/aaemnnosttv/wp-sqlite-db Using that + a WP composer package (like https://packagist.org/p…

There's about 4-5 very predictable comments already that boil down to: "you’ll end up building a framework" The author of this article directly addresses that common trope, so thes…

The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick This is specific to "Information, communication, and information theory." but it's still quite broad and a great read.…

Of course not, their status page says All Systems Operational! (yes it's down) https://status.digitalocean.com/

The one caveat this article doesn't mention is worse handling but they replied in the comments about it. And handling matters way more at higher speeds, plus they commented the ext…

We quickly ran into the same issue at Shopify. We've since moved from a flat list into sections by "domains"; within each section is the breakdown by type. You can see it here: htt…

I clicked on an example site ( https://singlel.ink/u/gloomytoons ) and opened up my network inspector: 15 requests 18.65 MB / 3.55 MB transferred Finish: 2.22 s DOMContentLoaded: 5…

You make a good point and I do agree. Also at any bigger company, no one person's experience is completely representative. It depends on the person, manager, team, org, etc. There'…

Over the past year I've slowly started to realize this as well. What changed? Working for a company that is publicly known enough for people on HN (and Reddit) to comment about it.…

No, it's still Ruby but built directly on top of Rack.