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Tangible Materials | AI Engineer | Remote (US/Canada) | Full-time | $140k - $160k USD + equity at seed startup. Tangible Materials helps the construction industry to make better de…

Tangible Materials | Senior Engineers | Remove US/Canada | Full-time We're building a fully automated agentic platform to help the construction industry optimize takeoffs, make bet…

Montreal is the 19th largest metropolitan area in North America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_metropo... It's also very close to the American North East for…

There's no reason why you can't have Heroku to connect to a RDS instance or a DB you manage yourself. It's not has easy as using the Heroku way, but not very difficult either.

When I was an intern at a large fortune 500 company, in the first week, my manager had me schedule a 30 minute meeting with the 20 or so people I'd have to interact with during my …

I'd like to hear the story of who was your favorite manager and why. What was the unique thing they did that made you more productive and/or happy?

The browserstack website is currently down for me. Anyone else?

I'm the author of this post. Happy to answer any questions you might have :)

toe_tag is really cool. We've clearly have some code and catches an exception, look for a string the message and rethrows it when needed. I'll use your gem next time I find myself …

Original gem author here! We were scratching out own itch by doing this. This is currently used by several of our projects. It does feel like the HTTP libraries should be better an…

Another good thing about this is that if you have CI setup to work with Github, you can also run all of your test suite quickly and asynchronously for each commit.

I think the point was mostly that 'lol' or 'meh' is a completely useless comment. It's true that there's a lot of room for improvements in the given example. Still, they do provide…

Although many of these tips might seem trivial and obvious, I've often seem developer who self-identified as 'senior' not follow these practices. Git and Github are communication c…

Heroku is effectively down if your application uses the Heroku API for auto-scaling. It probably means that only larger applications are affected.

Bitcasa ( https://www.bitcasa.com/ ) also solves that problems by streaming your files on demand.

I did not know job `gj` and `gk` for line navigation. That will definitely be useful!

Although I write all of my code in Vim, I have always found it to not be great environment for text. The main annoyance comes from dealing with long lines or automatic line wrappin…

The idea is that you could have a remote coworker or a QA use your dev server to test things, review UI, etc.

I love it! It's a perfect example of what makes Stripe a great company. This feature is in no way necessary, it's just icing on the cake. I wish more companies would address API us…