An alien life form on Star Trek: The Next Generation once described humans as “ugly bags of mostly water”. I don’t think that humans are ugly, but we are kind of squishy, and not just in the physical
In the last few days I had the opportunity to attend a number of panel discussions and lectures that somehow circled around the topic of “artificial intelligence”. The discussions and presentations wh
Atomic Commitment: The Unscalability Protocol 2PC is my enemy. Let’s consider a single database system, running on one box, good for 500 requests per second. What if we want to access that data more o
Building Programmable Web Sites Aaron Swartz, 2009 To Dan Connolly, who not only created the Web but found time to teach it to me Introduction: A Programmable Web If you are like most people I know (a
I. The Man Who Ate Himself In 2016, 24 year old Nicholas Perry wanted to be big online. He started uploading videos to his YouTube channel in which he pursued his passion—playing the violin—and extoll
I think one of the defining characteristics of human beings is their tendency to build infrastructures. Many animals do have tools, basically “tech”, but I think few if not none establish these wonder
Especially with the Internet bringing text input areas and “post” or “publish” buttons to everyone one might be tempted to think that everyone can speak nowadays, that everyone can contribute to publi
Published inOneZero · 9 min read· Feb 18, 2018 -- Credit: Eduard Muzhevskyi/iStock/Getty Images Plus The first two eras of the internet During the first era of the internet — from the 1980s through th
The Silicon Valley narrative centers on entrepreneurial protagonists who are poised one predestined step away from changing the world. A decade ago they were heroes, and more recently they’ve become v
Suddenly mindfulness meditation has become mainstream, making its way into schools, corporations, prisons, and government agencies including the U.S. military. Millions of people are receiving tangibl
A new version of Rails always brings new and exciting features. This writeup takes a look at some of the things Rails 7 has in store for us. To find these examples, I dug through the Changelogs and se
POST Nº 653 Mi hijo mayor me contó de un amigo que sentía cierta amargura por haber pasado su primer año de universidad demasiado obsesionado con sacar las notas más altas posibles. Las consiguió, con
Last week, Google announced the public beta of the Ruby runtime for Cloud Functions, Google’s functions-as-a-service (FaaS) hosting platform. Ruby support has lagged a bit behind other languages over
There have been several updates appended to this page as of 2020-11-16, please . Also available in: It’s here. It happened. Did you notice? I’m speaking, of course, of the world that Richard Stallman
Ah yes, the feature. A core tenet of both software development and startup life, their existence commands as much mental processing as it does actual coding and manpower. While we each claim to follow
Carl Barenbrug Product design, creative direction A Moment at the Shore It's Good Friday. 7AM. I don't particularly care about the significance of today, but it's a bank holiday and I've got the day o
On July 1 I joined Spotify in Stockholm, Sweden. Spotify has long been a product I love and admire so the ability to build it has been an indescribable opportunity. Throughout the interview process, a
Suma Positiva es una publicación semanal sobre estrategia, negocio y startups escrita por @samuelgil, Partner en JME Ventures. Todas las ediciones anteriores, ordenadas temáticamente, en: sumapositiva
Minimalism is Not Just a Silly Design Trend It’s a robust design practice that reflects human perception. Published inUX Collective · 5 min read· Jul 3, 2020 -- When minimalism works, it is always a r
*10 Modern CSS layout and sizing techniques that highlight just how robust and impactful a single-line of styling code can be. [Watch the Video] 01. Super Centered place-items: center Current Browser
WhatsAppTelegramReddit Foto: Sergio Méndez Por Saray Encinoso Acaba de cumplir 86 años, pero irradia felicidad y esperanza. Emilio Lledó (Sevilla, 1927 ) ha impartido su vocación en universidades extr
I have recently been asked what made us go with a mono-repository approach for the N26 web platform, and I thought it was an interesting question, so here is my 2 cents on this. Mono-repo, not monolit
What the Heck is Backstage Anyway? March 17, 2020 Published by Spotify Engineering Yesterday, we released the open source version of Backstage, our homegrown developer portal. And we learned a thing o
Large objects are a code smell: overloaded with responsibilities and dependencies, as they continue to grow, it becomes more difficult to define what exactly they’re responsible for. Large objects are
Overview Developers Digital Insights Company Blog / Company / Three Things You Didn't Know You Could Do with npm Scripts Time to read: 6 minutes March 03, 2020 Written by Twilion The Node.js ecosystem
We are excited to begin rolling out the new version of Messenger on iOS. To make the Messenger iOS app faster, smaller, and simpler, we rebuilt the architecture and rewrote the entire codebase, which
Expert Beginner Recap In my last post I introduced the term “Expert Beginner” to describe someone who has capped out in their learning at some sort of local maximum, convinced that the local is global
Category: The Life of a Programmer Why the Dev Tools Market is Designed to Confuse You, 4:00 Pacific This is a talk by Chris Riley, of Splunk. And it starts off with a great hook, which is “dev tools
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A few days ago my wife and I went to see Uncut Gems at a Regal theater in Chicago. We booked our ticket online, reserved our seats, showed up 15 minutes ahead of time, and settled in. After the coil o
In the early 2000s, an acquaintance mentioned that he’s been working in an IT department of a large organization for 10 years, starting right after college. My only reaction was a horrified “Fuck this
January 2, 2020 (4y ago)63,470 views This post is a quick summary of the evolution of our company, our open-source work, interesting news and lessons in product design and engineering throughout 2019.
I saw the Senior Programmer offer one day before going to bed. I decided I wasn’t going to apply. I had tried four times since 2013, and I never got to pass the first filter. Each attempt took me a go
Turning Points Our Brains Are No Match for Our Technology Credit...Nicolas Ortega for The New York Times Turning Point: In July, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it would fine Facebook $5 b
La app de Bolsa para milenials que quema media plantilla antes de salir: “Hay buen ambiente, jugamos a los dardos” La startup española Ninety Nine, una imitación de la estadounidense Robinhood, cuenta
On the western borderlands of Montreal’s well-to-do Outremont district and the ultra-hipsterised and gentrified Mile End lies an expanse of land where the University of Montreal is currently building
software developers interested in honing their craft—especially folks just trying to get a handle on good techniques for testing. A fundamental principle of testing software is: test the interface. Fa