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Measuring how bad Twitter is
My last blog post (exposing Twitter's excessive costs) prompted horror story emails on Twitter. But the best thing sent to me was a finan...
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It's time to reconsider going on-prem
Going on-prem can be a handful, especially maintaining those deployments. Here's how we use Kubernetes and our own tooling to help scale those efforts.
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Releasing Serverless Framework V.1, and Fundraising
Serverless, Inc. has brought Serverless Framework V.1 out of beta and also closed a seed round from Trinity Ventures.
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Dash developer's response to Apple's response
Dash provides instant offline access to 200+ API documentation sets, code snippets, and cheat sheets. Features MCP support for AI integration with Claude and other AI agents.
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Is Facebook’s Massive Open Office Scaring Away Developers?
In Search of Silence Joel Spolsky is a well-respected figure in Silicon Valley. He created the popular Trello project manager software and is currently the ... Read more
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Developer hiring and the market for lemons
Joel Spolsky has a classic blog post on "Finding Great Developers" where he popularized the meme that great developers are impossible to find, a corollary of which is that if you can find someone, they're not great. Joel writes,
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X-Plane 11 Coming This Holiday Season
The future of flight simulation is now. X-Plane 11 is the detailed, realistic, and modern simulator you’ve been waiting for. […]
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RethinkDB, SageMath, Andreessen-Horowitz, Basecamp and Open Source Software
RethinkDB and sustainable business models Three weeks ago, I spent the evening of Sept 12, 2016 with Daniel Mewes, who is the lead enginee...
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Designing a SaaS Database for Scale with Postgres
Exploration of different architectures for designing a SaaS database that scales for multi-tenant data models, including one database per tenant, one schema per tenant, and having all tenants share the same tables. The right choice for you depends on whether you’re optimizing for scale or isolation.
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RethinkDB is shutting down
Today I have sad news to share. After more than seven years of development, the company behind RethinkDB is shutting down. We worked very hard to make RethinkDB successful, but in spite of all our efforts we were ultimately unable to build a sustainable business. There is a lot of information to unpack – over the next…
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Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store
Dash provides instant offline access to 200+ API documentation sets, code snippets, and cheat sheets. Features MCP support for AI integration with Claude and other AI agents.
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Pixel smartphone camera review: At the top
With an overall DxOMark Mobile score of 89, pixel, the latest Google smartphone, is the highest-rated smartphone camera we have ever tested. Its image quality scores are impressive across the board, but it is particularly strong in providing a very high level of detail from its 12.3MP camera, with relatively low…
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OpenTimestamps: Scalable, Trust-Minimized, Distributed Timestamping with Bitcoin
I’ve spent the past few weeks working on1 an old2 project of mine,OpenTimestamps, and it’s ready for a public alpha release. It’s timestampinginfrastructure ...
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Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars
Big companies have a way of accidentally stepping on little companies sometimes. But every once in awhile, they leave us better off.
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Stripe in Japan
Stripe は、あらゆる規模や業種のビジネスにおける決済の受け入れ、柔軟な請求モデルの構築、および資金移動の管理を支援する、金融サービスプラットフォームです。
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New lower Azure pricing
As part of our continued commitment to deliver Azure to customers at the best possible prices, effective October 1st, we are lowering prices on many of our most popular virtual machines (VMs).
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Introducing Marketplace: Buy and Sell with Your Local Community
We're introducing Marketplace, a convenient destination on Facebook to discover, buy and sell items with people in your community.
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How privatization increases inequality
Inequality in the United States, which began its most recent rise in the late 1970s, continues to surge in the...
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Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend
I can't think of a single large software company that doesn't regularly draw internet comments of the form “What do all the employees do? I could build their product myself.” Benjamin Pollack and Jeff Atwood called out people who do that with Stack Overflow. But Stack Overflow is relatively obviously lean , so the…
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Online music distribution companies may not want Creative Commons music
*maybe The Plot Many of the online music distribution companies: CD Baby, DistroKid, OneRPM, MondoTunes, TuneCore etc., are either rejecting, or at least not entirely happy about accepting, audio content that has been released under a Creative Commons (CC) licence, and are not accepting it into their distribution with…
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Dropbox Hasn't Learned Their Lesson
You would think less than a month after a very popular HackerNews article on how Dropbox hacks your Mac, the file sharing company would be careful about their software distribution. They just distributed an update that hacks your UI and presents a Yahoo-like banner from 2004.