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Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African warehouse
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Help Keep Thunderbird Alive
Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!
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Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia
TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired MediaWiki’s most influential developer and disbanded the team whose entire job…
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24 year old student lights match: Europe versus Facebook
If you are interested in social networks, don't miss the slick video about Max Schrems’ David and Goliath struggle with Facebook over the way they are treating his personal information. Click on the red “CC” in the lower right-hand corner to see the English subtitles.
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An update on last week's customer shutdown incident
Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.
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Cloudflare's Disruption
Cloudflare’s new storage offering is potentially disruptive both economically and strategically.
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The Most Revealing Job Interview Question
Not all SaaS referral programs are built the same. Learn how B2B SaaS, consumer SaaS, and partner programs each need a different approach, plus examples.
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Twitter Contest Winning as a Service
This is the story of how I wrote a Twitter bot to automatically enter contests and ended up winning on average 4 contests per day, every day, for about 9 months straight.
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Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
Japanese version here (日本語版はこちら). Today marks a very special occasion in the history of Heroku, as we are honored to announce that Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumot
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Choose Boring Technology
Probably the single best thing to happen to me in my career was having had Kellan placed in charge of me. I stuck around long enough to see Kellan’s technical decisionmaking start to bear fruit. I learned a great deal from this, but I also learned a great deal as a result of this. I would not have been free to become…
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Writing books is not really a good idea
Could the creator economy provide a better one?
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Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
We’ve all heard of those network effect laws: the value of a network goes up with the square of the number of members. Or the cost of commun...
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The Hiring Post
The developer job interview doesn't work: it measures a basket of skills uncorrelated with job performance. Work-sample tests, warm-ups, and how to grade your own hiring process.
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YC Research: Universal Healthcare
Four years ago, Watsi [http://Watsi.org] became YC’s first non-profit. They’ve since raised over $7.5 million to fund life-changing healthcare for more than 10,000 patients in 24 countries. Today, we’re excited to announce that YC Research is funding Watsi for a project that will study using technology to improve the…
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Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
Our e-reader lineup also features a reimagined Kindle Scribe and the fastest Kindle Paperwhite ever.
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I don’t want to grow my freelance design studio into an agency
I'm often asked if I plan to hire more people and grow my own design agency? I don't, and in this article I explain why.
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Ontario bans non-competes and creates right to disconnect from work
On November 30, 2021, the Ontario legislature passed Bill 27, Working for Workers Act, 2021[1] an omnibus bill introduced by the Progressive Conservatives which amends a number of employment-related statutes. The amendments received Royal Assent on December 2, 2021; however, different parts of the Bill will come into…
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FAA approves unleaded fuel for piston fleet
The FAA delivered September 1 the long-sought approval of an unleaded fuel now cleared to power every spark-ignition engine on any airframe in the general aviation fleet.
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Medium is not the home for your ideas
Torn between whether to write on Medium or post on your own blog? Here's a cautionary tale.
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Introducing Increment
As software becomes more important in the world, the practice and art of software is becoming more important too.
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GitLab Master Plan
GitLab announces $20M in Series B funding, and its Master Plan to build an integrated toolset for the modern developer!
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Stripe Open-Source Retreat
We rely on a lot of open-source software at Stripe, and over time we’ve contributed back our own share of patches and projects. We decided we’d like to do more, though, so we’re launching an open-source retreat program.
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The saddest “just ship it” story (2020)
This is a story of how it took me way too long to ship a product, and I ended up paying for a competitor product instead.
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Was my $48K GPU server worth it?
In 2024 I quit my FAANG job to become an independent researcher. To do this I needed GPUs, so I built “grumbl”, a 6x 6000 Ada GPU server. This blog describes the build, some of the issu…