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Anything that touches our production databases, mostly sharded mysql, needs to go through our php orm. We do have other contained infrastructure that is written in some other langu…

Yes, a Null test really should be the first test you run if you're looking to get into A/B testing. You should also run an ongoing A/A test across your site or app to have confiden…

The Etsy blogs use Wordpress, so we do use existing third-party tools where is makes sense. Kellan might have a rule to not build a CMS but we certainly have built one to manage he…

thank you! just ran the binary and hitting the power button on a mbp retina now brings up the "Are you sure you want to shut your computer down now?" dialog. This is behavior is by…

We don't use hphp in production at Etsy but do use it for static analysis in our build. It catches lots of dumb mistakes.

Another vote for JSONView.

I don't disagree, just pointing out that there are ways to achieve a tabular layout without an html table. Tables are for data right? On the other hand, I like the idea of less and…

I'm using SlickGrid[1] in an internal tool. It uses divs and spans to display data, so there are certainly nice examples that do so. 1. https://github.com/mleibman/SlickGrid

Heres mine with a pretty basic bash script that creates symlinks. https://github.com/chucklarge/dotfiles

Oh interesting...back button.

Shameless plug for my html resume template, https://github.com/chucklarge/html-resume-template I used to use LaTeX but couldn't figure out how to style it exactly as i needed. If y…

I would hire the friend since he can actually solve problems.

send the emails with an unsubscribe link. you'll be fine.

Linking Angry Birds and terrorism is kind of brilliant.

There is this as well http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Dashboards-Design-Best-Prac... The The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing) by Leland Wilkinson is also great, thou…

I suggests everyone read these whitepapers on dashboard design. http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/Whitepapers/Dashboard... http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/Whitepapers/C…

You also have to be in a culture/environment which appreciates and encourages learning from failure, rather than placing blame. See what we do at Etsy. http://codeascraft.etsy.com/…

no silos!

I used to do my resumes in LaTeX but kept fighting with the styles. I really just wished i could use html/css, and finally created my own template. https://github.com/chucklarge/ht…

Some self promoting here, but this is my html resume project based on Jason Blevins' CV Latex template. I am using Prince, but printing from the browser gives a nice result too. ht…

I am not saying user feedback is not valuable. I am not sure where the line is between feedback and just being a brat is though. MW has obviously been successful at a blogging plat…