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Miniswap | Founding Engineer | Full-time | ONSITE (hybrid) San Francisco | No visa sponsorships Miniswap is a marketplace for complex hobbies, starting with Warhammer. We're backed…

Congrats on the launch! I think this has a lot of potential in eliminating context-switching. DevTools has always felt unintuitive/unfamiliar coming from an IDE, so just bringing t…

On the efficiency angle, I think a big difficulty here that isn’t often discussed is that many optimization strategies relevant to incremental compilation slow down batch compilati…

I've been working on a new programming language and I've started to think that the design of a language's standard library (in terms of error handling, consistent naming, consisten…

I'm inclined to agree, especially as there are free alternatives for all major web browsers (although I can see that isn't the full feature set, I imagine its 90% of the use case f…

A big challenge with the React ecosystem is that it's the first technology many new developers work with. They don't have a frame of reference for what alternative approaches exist…

Asking for email after sign-in with Apple is against their TOS. At some point when you release an update they'll notice and require you to change this. (It happened to me ~6mo afte…

So from what I can tell this is conceptually similar to the LiveView model, except that the problem is approached from the perspective of the SPA/client stack instead of the SSR st…

I've rarely seen alert() used in the past few years outside of as a means of harassing users on malware sites (have you ever accidentally clicked on a malicious ad on a mobile phon…

This book was one of the best parts of my CS degree. It's the only textbook which I read cover-to-cover because the writing and narrative were so cohesive. Highly recommend.

I'm working on a tool that requires running my customers' APIs inside of self-contained environments. They can create/destroy these environments at any time. Is there a 'best pract…

The biggest challenge I see with federated systems is the discovery process for finding a node you want to be associated with. This is a hard choice - will this server still be run…

Our small startup has managed to gain traction in the US, UK, and India. All 3 regions are desirable. Currently we are hosting a GraphQL API on Heroku and our DB and some other ser…

One nice moderation trick I've done for my company is building a slack integration that posts new reports into a dedicated channel, each of which has a "ban user" button. This way …

It's been "the future" for 40-ish years now, with dozens (if not hundreds) of failed attempts. At some point, one has to wonder: are we there yet? If not, why aren't we? To me it s…

If you aren't already, I strongly recommend using union types for query results with inline fragments in your queries themselves. This handles both your auth/unauth case as well as…

That's not totally true, either. You can only use Stripe as an option if the service being paid for is delivered outside of the app (I.e. Uber, Ecommerce, etc). Any purely digital …

Was your CTO in prison? Very intrigued by this

I've bounced between paper notebooks, Apple's notes app, and have recently begun looking at apps designed specifically for journalling and/or mood tracking. Is there a better alter…