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My Heroku values (2015)
Some of my favorite practices and ideas from almost four years at Heroku.
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Google Will Survive SESTA – Startups Might Not
There was a shocking moment in this week’s Senate Commerce Committee hearing on the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA). Prof. Eric Goldman had just pointed out that members of Congress should consider how the bill might affect hundreds of small Internet startups, not just giant companies...
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PlanetScale for Postgres
PlanetScale now supports Postgres
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The Art and Science of Leading Projects
Explore free project management resources from TeamGantt, including practical guides, templates, tools, videos, podcasts, and construction resources.
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Questions you'd be crazy not to ask at the start of your next project
Download Blank Inception Deck Online course Udemy One area most agile methods are completely silent on is project chartering. Below is a lightweight you can use to fill this gap and get your projec…
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H1Bs will start costing $100k/yr
Trump imposed a new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas, raising costs for employers and reshaping U.S. hiring. Learn what it means for you.
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Is old music killing new music?
All the growth in the music business now comes from old songs—with consumption of new music actually shrinking. How did we get here, and is there a way back?
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AI is going to kill app subscriptions
Curated niche app opportunities from Reddit, scored by difficulty and demand.
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Sqlite – Most Deployed Database in the World
SQLite is likely used more than all other database engines combined. Billions and billions of copies of SQLite exist in the wild. SQLite is found in:
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Watching Larry Ellison Become Larry Ellison
In Oracle’s early days Kathryn Gould was the founding VP of Marketing, working there from 1982 to 1984. When I heard that Larry Ellison was stepping down as Oracle’s CEO I asked Kathryn to think ab…
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Valve is running Apple's playbook in reverse
How a video game company built an empire by inverting the playbook
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Session is shutting down in 90 days
The Session Technology Foundation cannot continue without your support. Donate today to help Session in its fight for survival.
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How Many Tracks Do Train Stations Need?
A brief discussion on Reddit about my post criticizing Penn Station expansion plans led me to write a very long comment, which I’d like to hoist to a full post explaining how big an urban tra…
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Minister No More
The referendum of 5th July will stay in history as a unique moment when a small European nation rose up against debt-bondage. Like all struggles for democratic rights, so too this historic rejection of the Eurogroup’s 25th June ultimatum comes with a large price tag attached. It is, therefore, essential that the great…
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Heart aerospace completes first flight of largest electric aircraft
Heart Aerospace’s X1 demonstrator became the world’s largest battery-electric aircraft ever flown, demonstrating electric flight at airliner scale and advancing development of the ES-30.
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Windows 11's default mail client will show ads starting 2024
Original Publish Date: June 2023 | MC650424 Revised Date: August 30, 2023, based on Microsoft's Updated Message See text in red font. Microsoft's...
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Modular monolith and microservices: Modularity is what matters
Modularity is a crucial concept when designing and creating software. Independent of whether our chosen architecture style is to have a single unit of deployment - Monolith or multiple units of deployment - Microservices/Services. It is a quality that should be treated completely independent of how many deployable…
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Online sports betting: As you do well, they cut you off
A few decades back my teenage son and I approached Las Vegas at night while traveling south on Interstate 15. When the skyline of the city began sparkling into view, the kid said, “Wow. Think…
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Non-Apple's Mistake
I've been patient, I've been gracious And this mountain is covered with wolves Hear them howling, my hungry children Maybe you should stay and have another drink and think about me and you. Jonathan Coulton, "Skullcrusher Mountain"
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The iPad Big Picture
This is Apple’s way of asserting that they’re taking over the penthouse suite as the strongest and best company in the whole ones-and-zeroes racket.