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giberti

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About giberti

Tinkerer, tech enthusiast, and Sr. Director of Engineering @ SmugMug.com

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    If you’re on a Mac, try the desktop client. It’s actually pretty fast. Does ~90% of what most devs will need.

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    Love the 8” wide implementation. I could imagine having that as a business metrics/KPI dashboard instead of a wall mounted TV.

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    I wear your shirt. Predates the influencer model popular today https://wanderingaimfully.com/iwearyourshirt/

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    This model for a position statement can be helpful in very early development. Having a statement early, even before the solution exists or is even fully understood, will be a compe…

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    Definitely an opinionated implementation. It doesn’t make sense for generalized scripts that automate routine tasks. But for some maintenance, build, test, or deploy scripts that o…

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    Not unlike Goldilocks sampling the bears’ home, what is just right, is often a matter of perspective. A developers education, experience, and domain all impact how different abstra…

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    Amazon has a similar offering called Secrets Manager which can be used for sensitive secrets as well as configuration values. https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/

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    Immutable ledgers (blockchain) and GIS (mixed systems) and search indexes (elastic) all come to mind as more niche databases. Some of these uses can be modeled in a variety of engi…

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    Nice to see someone who actually created a large volume site discuss their learnings vs. theoretical works discussing how stuff (c|s)hould be done without real experience. Would lo…

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    I can't find the source for the quote, "we still need legislation for blocking foreign websites." The referenced document doesn't actually say that, in fact, the word "blocking" do…

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    Great post! Nice to see others are looking at the long term plays and building great products. The post was refreshing to read and validates much of what I experienced over the las…

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    Comment #3622628

    This proposal suggests extending the existing Open Graph Protocol to better define how content can be shared on third party sites such as Pinterest.

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    As a fellow Facebook tab provider (My Tab) I feel your pain. I'm concerned about how SOPA and ProtectIP will impact this class of service as it would be impossible to police all co…

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    The language you use is largely irrelevant - it's the team you work with. If you want to work with the language du-jour you should find a founder who is fluent with that language. …

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    1) Architecture. Understanding what the actual hardware is doing when you walk through a program. Knowing this can help answer questions like: Why does a variable go out of scope? …

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    Curated newsletters are only as good as the curator. If you are going to crowd source the curation, even allowing multiple curators per topic, you should allow the readers to also …

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    Comment #2925228

    Love the related image and caption

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