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Tracking Every Release
We spend a lot of time gathering metrics for our network, servers, and many things going on within the code that drives Etsy....
How Obama Raised $60 Million by Running a Simple Experiment
Fundraising dinners are a great way to raise money. But how can you raise money if no one has heard of you and all you have is a website?
A true single-sided circuit board.
In electronics, it is common to talk about single sided circuit boards. The most common type is a circuit board that only has printed wiring on one side, and components on the other side. There are also surface-mount boards, where all the wiring and components sit on one side. But aren’t all of those really just…
TextMate finally gets an update
Update 2010-11-14: Post about restoring ⇧⌥⇥ for shift left . Post about restoring interactive input functionality .
Announcing Google Refine 2.0, a power tool for data wranglers
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
Introduction to tmux (alternative to GNU screen)
tmux is similar to screen as it lets you run numerous TTY’s in the same terminal window. It supports some very cool and intuitive features natively as well as a much more readable configuration syntax (ever looked at a .screenrc file?). Why TMUX over Screen? Well according to the FAQ for tmux it has the following…
Firebug Metamorphosis
The story of Firefox and Firebug are synonymous with the rise of the web. We fought the good fight and changed how developers inspect HTML and debug JS in the browser. Firebug ushered the Web 2.0 era. Today, the work pioneered by the Firebug community through the last 12 years lives on in Firefox Developer Tools…
Google releases its own Javascript Lint tool
When collaborating with lots of engineers as we do here at Google, it’s important to keep a consistent coding style. To this end, we recent...
Recovering deleted files using grep
I was working on a server this morning and accidentally deleted an important configuration file. Like many Linux users, I lamented the absence of an “undelete” command.
Happy Git Commits
Being happy makes us more productive. Add some happiness to your git commits.
Obsessed with putting ink on paper or What's wrong with computer music notation?
LilyPond – Music notation for everyone
Introducing Google Command line Tool
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
Dropbox (YC 07) announces mobile API (and apps for iPad, Android)
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
Assembla now offers free private Git and SVN Repository Hosting
Read the latest news and technical tips about Source Code Management, Source Code Hosting, Perforce, SVN and Git.