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How is the data getting into these tools in the first place? If your applications are instrumented with OpenTelemetry, you can use the OpenTelemetry Collector as the first hop, and…

It's always strange when you see programmers who don't understand why namespace collisions are bad.

Definitely. I've been spending a decent amount of mental energy on this and still feeling very fuzzy about it. I especially feel like bootstrapping techies treat their time like it…

Convention over configuration was always easier in smaller decisions where people didn't have very strong opinions. i.e., "model files go in ./app/models/" When it comes to more su…

Oof. Please remember it is much, much easier to measure something like labor participation rate (which is what the study actually measures) than work ethic (which is the interpreta…

I've actually never heard the phrase "golden uterus complex", but I seriously wonder if it's any different from calling a black person "uppity". Which is also not cool.

Only a spaz would care about the difference.

Generally speaking I like to have at least one CI environment available for every branch that makes you nervous, plus master. So what number you're dealing with depends on the team…

Yeah, personally I know a number of solid devs who like feature toggling but the notion has always rubbed me the wrong way. Especially because half the time I'm adding a non-trivia…

Branching can often be a good strategy if you have a large team and you don't want large uncompleted chunks of work to block quick fixes & deploys, etc. The situation you want to a…

Oh, yeah, I guess that's our Backbone redirect from the initial page to whatever the first "pane" would be. If we weren't using teh Ajax we'd do that, we'd use a 302 and then the b…

No we haven't, and that's something for us to keep in mind if we think about switching, but for the time being all our stuff's in Vimeo and I don't think we have any plans to move …

Unfortunately, Vimeo's HTML5 embed doesn't give you an API that you can use to close the video from JS, which is why we're using their older Flash embed. I'd love to make the switc…