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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,307 posts.
Performance Culture
Joe Duffy's Blog | Adventures in the high-tech underbelly
Recalibrate Your Productivity Sensors
Thoughts on software engineering and engineering management
Automattic Purchases .blog TLD for $19M
It’s now public that Automattic is the company behind Knock Knock Whois There LLC, the registry for the new .blog TLD. (And a great pun.) We wanted to stay stealth while in the bidding process and …
Don’t Use Markdown for Documentation
“Markdown” is the most commonly used lightweight markup language on the internet. It is great for a subset of tasks, mainly blog posts and commenting. However, lately it has been adopted by the tec...
Results from Candy Japan box design A/B test
How the physical box design for a subscription box affects retention.
Requiem for GitHub
Kind people already sent donations that will make my childrens' lives easier, when I'm not there any more. Thank you enormously! :-)
Job Descriptions Should Be Better
Most job descriptions are terrible. We need to make them better.
Beamforming in PulseAudio
In case you missed it – we got PulseAudio 9.0 out the door , with the echo cancellation improvements that I wrote about . Now is probably a good time for me to make good on my promise to expand upon the subject of beamforming.
Debugging using system calls in Mac OS X
Today I want to talk about an issue I was having with UDP sockets in Go, and how I learned more about my program by making use of two tools that ship with Mac OS X called dtruss, and DTrace.
Reverse engineering Android from binary to source
Dmitry.GR: Full sources for Android on zWatch
The truth about Lisp (2006)
In which the truth about lisp is revealed, and some alternatives are enumerated.
Platform wars: the final score
The platform wars and over and Apple and Google both won. So, what's the score, how many smartphones and tablet are out there, and what should we think about next?
Born for it – How the image of software developers came about
Where did the common image of the socially-awkward, white, male programmer come from?
My Experience with Nix on OS X
Some time ago, I’ve moved this jekyll-based blog from GitHub Pages to a self-hosted NixOS server. A few weeks ago, I’ve also moved some parts of my local OS X environment from homebrew over to nix.