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Accounting For Developers, Part I
In this first part of a two-part series, we walk through basic accounting principles for anyone building products that move and track money.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,158 posts.
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American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
American, the world’s largest airline, poised to have the world’s largest supersonic fleet with new Boom Supersonic aircraft
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Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends
Trends in medium, AI, and user interaction underpin Instagram’s response to TikTok, and will determine Meta’s long-term moat.
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How and why I built Japan Dev
Japan Dev started as a list of companies I wanted to work for back in 2014. Here's the story of how that idea morphed into a job board showcasing hundreds...
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The Inner Osborne Effect (2021)
In software development, we talk a lot about software anti-patterns, how to recognize them, and how to extricate yourself from them via refactoring.
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Learnings of a CEO: Wade Foster, Zapier
Today, Zapier automates work by connecting with over 5,000 apps. The company has been profitable since 2014 and is valued at $5B – with 700 employees working remotely. Wade, Zapier CEO, shared his learnings growing into the role of a growth-stage CEO.
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How to design a referral program
Above: Dropbox’s innovative growth initiative — A referral program to give/get storage
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Investing in Flow
Our nation has a housing crisis. The demographic trends driving America’s housing market are impossible to ignore: our country is creating households faster than we’re building houses. Structural shortages in available homes for sale push housing prices higher, while young people are staying single for longer and…
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Big changes ahead for Deno
Learnings from our recent survey and feedback from across our community. We'll discuss how we're addressing this feedback and the features to expect from Deno in the coming months.
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Email Is Async
Email is often used as a synchronous (real-time) comms channel when it shouldn't be. Learn why email is async and how to keep it that way.
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Second-Order Thinking
Second-order thinking is a mental model that smart people like Warren Buffett & Howard Marks use to avoid problems. Read this article to learn how it works.
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The layoffs at Klarna
The FinTech company valued at $45B laid off 10% of its staff. How did it happen, and what can other companies learn from its execution?
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Copyright infringement in AI art
As AI creative tools are becoming widespread, the question of copyright of AI creations has also taken centre-stage. But while copyright nerds obsess over the authorship question, the issue that is…
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My take on how DuckDuckGo can outperform Google
The Current Status Quo
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Will low and no code tools ever truly disrupt tech development?
Will the programmers of tomorrow be shipping products written without touching too much code?
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Operating well – what I learned at Stripe
Over the last few years, I’ve grown from a fine to a good operator.
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There aren't that many uses for blockchains
Criteria for judging when a blockchain is applicable
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Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
We're sorry, but this special is no longer available. Please visit our Specials section for a current list of active specials.
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How to market to developers on Twitter: Learnings from 4 months of Supabase feed
Sep 01, 2026 - Learnings from going over 4 months of Supabase Twitter feed. Social media marketing tips for dev-focused companies.
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The case against a C alternative
Like several others I am writing an alternative to the C language (if you read this blog before th…
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Incident report: Employee and customer account compromise
On August 4, 2022, Twilio identified accounts of employees who were compromised by a social engineering attack. The attacker then gained access to data for a limited number of customers.
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No More “Insight Porn”
If you’re not getting something actionable out of it, you’re probably wasting your time
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Why your daily stand-ups don't work and how to fix them
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
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From throwaway side project to Switch in 2 years: my indie gamedev story
Available now on Steam and Nintendo Switch I started this game back in 2020 as a fun little side-project to pass the time during the pandemic with lots of help from my son. Back then we didn’…
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Class Action Targets Experian over Account Security
A class action lawsuit has been filed against big-three consumer credit bureau Experian over reports that the company did little to prevent identity thieves from hijacking consumer accounts. The legal filing cites liberally from an investigation KrebsOnSecurity published in July, which found that identity thieves were…