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Artificial Intelligence is causing us to revisit the difference between free as in beer and free as in speech ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre ). It is putting a…

Best of luck with Zed, Nathan! I've always been impressed with your brilliance, vision, hope, and positivity. Hope we can catch up again soon, until then keep changing the world fo…

TL;DR: It is a JAMStack-style static site, which we publish with the Middleman static site editor. However, there's a lot more to it than that, and it's always actively evolving. T…

Most things that are Good in the world of computing can be boiled down to: Loose Coupling and High Cohesion At all levels, macro and micro. It applies at the function level and to …

Having done TDD mostly full-time for well over a decade, I have to agree, and it hits home with some past experiences. You can end up with fully tested, TDD'd code, that is not wel…

Good article. I think there's a shortage, and I also think technology overload and the ever-increasing rate of innovation and change prevents many junior programmers from really le…

> I'm just in the process of cutting a clients hosting costs by about 80% by ditching AWS for a setup on managed servers... And what are the additional long-term development/sysadm…

[edit: I've been at Pivotal Labs since '06, not '96. In '96 I was at IBM Global Services.]

Things are not always as they seem. The goals of this (Pivotal Labs') office layout and the company values are actually contrary to what you might assume. In fact, they have evolve…