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I remember flipping through the Sear's Wish Book as child, coveting all the toys. You can still find old copies online: https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ What's actually happeni…

That's not a big deal for me since I only am running a handful of servers. I install it system-wide during initial setup of a new server. Plumbum has the ability to run remote shel…

As a pythonista, I am a huge fan of the plumbum library as a replacement for bash. It makes it very straightforward to run a sequence of *nix commands, but you get all the simplici…

I switched from Riot to Vue, and am glad I made the change. Biggest things I noticed: 1) Getting stared with the basics is about equally easy in both frameworks. Both have a very s…

I worked at HubSpot for many years. (disclaimer - I do not have a financial interest in the company. But I do still have strong emotional and social connections, and I was there lo…

I worked there, it wasn't anything as bad as what he makes it out to be. It was just shorthand for saying, "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts." Our whole sales pitch w…

I worked at HubSpot in engineering and I never once heard the term "graduation" in reference to a firing. Usually we just got an email saying, "HubSpot and John have decided to go …

1. There was a history of heavy-weight, overly verbose frameworks. The early frameworks were over-engineered and hard to use. Lightweight frameworks in dynamic languages (Rails, dj…

This looks like this could be a big deal. Kickstarter would be a lot more fair and more compelling if the backers were also investors, and could get a piece of the upside when help…

I went through this exact situation. I joined a company when it was just the founders and me, and then we grew to dozens and then hundreds of people. As we grew, I felt these same …

" For any significant piece of logic, it ends up living in a class on its own, with its dependencies injected either via constructor parameters or method parameters. " And I was wo…

Were the paying customers actually using it? Did they love the product (ie, would be a 9 or 10 on an NPS survey)? If yes, then you should have worked more on sales and marketing. I…

Gestures are much less efficient than using a mouse or touchscreen, gestures require more muscles and movement and are less precise. Voice commands beyond the very simple stuff is …

If you look at the biomechanics, it does seem like a keyboard + mouse + >=20" screen is the optimal setup for doing actual work. A keyboard is simply the most efficient way to get …

My favorite term for it is "Eye of Sauron" management. Most of the time the eye is not on you ... but when it is, look out!

The point of a microservice based architecture is to allow a large team (15+ people) to work together without stepping on each others toes. The idea is you break the application in…

This is great. You should have an offer a combined zip file with all the mp3's as a $5 download. I would pay for it.

So 2,200 signups turned into 9 active users. If those were paying customers, than that is a .5% lead to customer ratio. There are companies that have built large businesses with a …

I would love for someone to start a company that could bring fiber to cities via the kickstarter model. Getting the money upfront from customers could go a long way toward mitigati…