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Hey there - co-founder here, thanks for the kind words, glad you like the look of it :) Could you elaborate on what you're trying to do with SSO? To clarify, you can SSO via Slack …

Hey, author here :) I don't think they're always a bad idea, but when talking about external IDs many folks would agree with you, in a few ways, actually. Relying on exposed primar…

Hey - author here! I'm not totally sure I follow on this one. Happy to chat more if there's any context missing from the article that you'd find interesting :)

Super interesting, and that makes a lot of sense! Luckily our _internal_ IDs don't rely on sequences at all, and for ordering I'd always use a field specifically for that purpose l…

Nice - we're using a very similar approach now (procedure that runs just before creation) which I think will last us a good while. Glad to know it's worked out well for you :)

Author here - thanks for the kind words. You're right, this was a case of pragmatic decisions revisited at a later date, something I'm a big fan of (although it would have been nic…

Hey, author here :) Normally I'd agree with you, but in this case we're explicitly dealing with external IDs that we want to be incrementing. Our internal IDs and API IDs actually …

Turns out naming images "google-ad-email-zoom.png" is a bad idea. AdBlock understandably doesn't like images with "ad" in the name...

Wow. How the hell did that happen :S

True. I can't imagine them ever doing that though! Where would you go instead? They're still the best web based email provider IMO.

The new ads in gmail's promo tab look a lot similar to emails than before. An interesting new addition or move towards advertising trickery? I lean towards the former but I'd be in…

I've had a few emails about Open sourcing the stuff we've done. We're considering adding a few features and releasing it into the wild, I'd love to hear what people would add?

How does this handle a situation where multiple designers edit large files at roughly the same time?