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Awesome videos! Is it not dangerous to get that close? I got apprehensive just watching that

There are plenty of modern, distributed RDBMSes that make sharding transparent to the user (E.g. cockroachDB, yugabyte, vitess, many cloud offerings, etc.). Most NoSQL databases en…

Git is what happens when a technology is born out of hardcore engineering. Most of the world could greatly benefit from its functionality but it’s too hard for non software-enginee…

I’ve always been curious, if you’re working on a really complex system with lots of disparate services (or even if you are using a managed database like Spanner for example), what …

This is one of those posts where you can really feel the value of senior engineering/previous experience. I definitely have not approached choosing a new technology with the veloci…

fwiw async/await also solves issues with chained promises in the .then portion. I’ve found this to be really helpful and a lot cleaner at times

Mine is Acquired’s overview of SpaceX: https://overcast.fm/+FaxmmY8Jw . It was done right before the first Crew Dragon launch. They do such a great job of digging into a company’s …

I’m not arguing you should. But there are undoubtedly some people who would. And a hybrid work environment is detrimental to those who want that in-person experience. There should …

Fair enough. My main work experience is at a smaller startup that has a heavy focus on collaboration so my opinion is biased towards that. In my experience trivial things can be so…

People often argue that remote working flexibility is the future, but I think it will be detrimental to both younger employees (losing out on mentorship) and those that do go into …

For the past few months I’ve been taking markdown notes which are then transformed into HTML and pushed to an s3 bucket for public viewing. Probably not the best solution within th…

Zoom actually is profitable and was one of the rare technology companies to be profitable at IPO. Although they do offer a lot of free services they nailed the freemium line - 40 m…

While I do use i3 for more than L/R splits with stacking etc. the largest benefit I get from it is workspace management. I use i3 with polybar and have dedicated workspace icons (w…

This is similar to when Pinterest did this back in 2012 and very quickly made large amounts of money but were crushed by public opinion and quickly shut the practice down. It’ll be…

Other comments have good solutions but if you are accessing via mobile try out Octal. Dark theme by default, great UI/UX, complete with search, etc. I’ve been very happy with it an…

UI looks great and the entire product looks really well done. As a fellow student in a ton of zoom classes I’ll be sure to recommend to others!

Interesting article! Another approach is serving webpack bundles from Django views. This allows you to take advantage of the entire node ecosystem and build process (for better or …

New graduate here who has this admittedly been on only one side of the interview process. In my interviews I got mostly white boarding problems and one take home. The author was mo…

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