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2019-03 I worked at Stripe for 3+ years, mostly as an engineering manager. The experience taught me a lot. In a few respects though Stripe totally changed my…

This article first appeared in Irish Pages . This afternoon I took the dog and went down Gardens Road to the waterside, to enjoy the view northward over the…

At Figma, we recently tackled one of our biggest engineering challenges yet: supporting plugins. Our plugins API enables third-party developers to run code…

Creating a faithful online reproduction of a book considered one of the most beautiful and unusual publications ever published is a daunting task. Byrne’s…

C HARLES HANDY has been through a lot of challenges in a long career as a manager at Royal Dutch Shell, an oil giant, followed by a spell in academia and…

how best to embed youtube on your site, specifically to avoid the amount of scripts and tracking that's sent over the wire to your visitor.

...and support IE11.

Native lazy-loading for the web Browser-level native lazy-loading is finally here! Aug 6, 2019 Houssein Djirdeh GitHub Glitch Addy Osmani Twitter Glitch Mathias…

NIKA:\ > list Introducing git-revise Mon 05 August 2019 · git git-revise rebase At Mozilla I often end up building my changes in a patch stack, and used…

Meet Lefthook , the fastest polyglot Git hooks manager out there, and make sure not a single line of unruly code makes it into production. See how easy it is to…

Since the React hooks API was introduced, a lot of questions have risen about whether or not React hooks will replace Redux. In my view, there is little overlap…

<blockquote>The final step — and the most important one for our purposes — was to create a modern-only version of Slack that would start out incomplete but gradually work its way toward feature completeness as modules and interfaces were modernized.</blockquote>

Russell Davies's strategy advice 08 July 2019 Last year, I met the excellent Russell Davies to ask his advice on how to create a strategy. Russell was the…

Defaulting to a scrollable presentation-style walkthrough works really well.

What are Gatsby themes? Using a Gatsby theme, all of your default configuration (shared functionality, data sourcing, design) is abstracted out of your site,…

This website replays the Apollo 11 mission as it happened, 50 years ago. It consists entirely of historical material, all timed to Ground Elapsed Time--the master mission clock. Footage of Mission Control, film shot by the astronauts, and television broadcasts transmitted from space and the surface of the Moon, have been painstakingly placed to the very moments they were shot during the mission, as has every photograph taken, and every word spoken.

A remarkable reconstruction of the first Moon landing.

This document exists to lay out some general principles of running a small social network site that have worked for me. These principles are related to community building more than they are related to specific technologies. This is because the big problems with social network sites are not technical: the problems are social problems related to things like policy, values, and power.

A theoretical and practical guide Marco Altini Nov 10, 2018 · 7 min read In a previous post, I’ve covered all the limitations of the Apple Watch in the context…

+1 for healthfit. So glad I discovered it! I do exactly the same as you. I bar any other fitness apps from writing data directly to Apple Health (but allow them to read), with the exception of my Withings scales that are allowed to only write weight data.

The runbooks live in a runbook .md file in each repo, then a system pulls those files into a central place. There's an example here: (link:…