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Most businesses are totally fine if they have a few hours of downtime. More uptime is better, but treating an outage like a disaster or an e-commerce site like a power plant is mor…

Shortcut | Senior Product Manager | Remote (US time zones) | Full Time | https://shortcut.com Shortcut builds project management tools for modern software teams. We’re looking for …

Agreed, this was delightful to read! I really appreciated how the author was open about naivety and blind spots. It made the contrast more apparent when they learned things. I'd lo…

The OP explicitly mentions Chesterton’s Fence.

I wrote about this a few years ago too! https://link.medium.com/UUBEJ4ZOSZ

Why’s Poignant Guide To Ruby is also in this vein, though a bit weirder.

Why would HR IT have worse software developers than other industries?

He also helped write yarn, an alternative client to the official npm one.

FWIW the comment you're calling out here is four years old: https://github.com/npm/npm/blame/d3095ff20b8ea01e7fbf93a4a69... , before npm inc was formed. The correctMkdir change see…

Dangit, Cloud to Butt Plus strikes again.

Yours.co | Lead Software Developer | ONSITE Utah http://yours.co Yours.co is looking for a software developer to build and lead a small team of two or three other developers in bui…

What makes Elm + Phoenix so good together? I use Elm professionally and love it, but a back end is a back end. Is the love just "I really like Phoenix?" The way people talk about i…

This is exactly the Same as Elm, without the type system to help you out.

You can usually edit the titles of your own bookmarks.

I've played with pocketsphinx.js a fair amount, but this looks WAAAAAAAAAY easier to set up and consume. Nice work.