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When other website owners realize how much traffic you send them that is good for you. Maybe they want to sponsor that newsletter if it’s driving a lot of business.

Is ”advancing our amazing bet” a nod to the Google Fiber turndown?

My advice is to check LinkedIn for listings but don’t apply that way. “Easy Apply” lowers application friction so effectively that every posting gets ~1000 applicants of which few …

In Canada, it seems like there’s a large and growing number of remote jobs available at US software firms through employer-of-record startups like Deel and Remote. Canadian softwar…

I’ve used Placemark for well over a year to build custom map-based graphics for torontoverse.com. There are a lot of web apps in this space now, and always QGIS, but I personally f…

I’d love to see you elaborate on this. Anecdotally, my experience was the exact opposite. Is there some documentation making this point? In the course of optimizing I came to know …

Teasing this apart I see a few things: a) logging, b) modules rollout and c) missing frameworks. I’ve never had a logging issue in large systems. Explicit error return (as you know…

Curious to understand what you are suggesting here. What’s a better story for polymorphism than duck typing? What would (better?) null-safety look like in Go?

I’ve got to disagree with this strongly. I built and operated the same large system in both languages (acquisition forced me to rewrite) and both the dev and operating cost of the …

I write a lot of Go and I can’t tell you how much this warms my heart. Compatibility probably isn’t much fun for the language team, always having to keep one foot firmly in the “di…

He usually goes by JM Fortier on YouTube and I think he’s great. He’s a real inspiration to me, for sure. He’s very open and has a lot of stuff up there on various channels about t…

Just to be pedantic, I’ll point out that’s literally “transparent” matter and we use the term “dark” which is really more appropriate for something that absorbs EM radiation becaus…

Hiawatha is more than just a leader he’s essentially a religious figure to the Haudenosaunee who historically reside in roughly the area around Lake Ontario. It is definitely in ba…

He’s describing a graph data structure using a tree metaphor but definitely not describing the “tree” subset of graph data structures.

There are two new trackball models released this year, the nano and mini.

This is the article that the study authors linked to in their other writing: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.2010...

I mean, Google was built on protos in a “NoSQL” database (BigTable). I think maybe you are overindexing on personal experience.

If you store protos in your Redis keys (like most people using “NoSQL” for data storage), this comment doesn’t have much punch. Pretty sure we all can think of some pretty high pro…

The Timeless Way of Building describes a philosophy, not just of building practice but really of how to live a good, fulfilling life. A Pattern Language is an set of examples of ho…

Reading A Pattern Language without reading The Timeless Way of Building makes no sense at all. We do it, I think, because many technologists stumble on A Pattern Language through i…