Officer A. Cab Jun 6, 2020 · 21 min read Modified Image by StockSnap from Pixabay I was a police officer for nearly ten years and I was a bastard. We all were. This essay has been kicking around in my
During my time on the React team, I’ve been lucky to see how Jordan , Sebastian , Sophie and other tenured team members approach problems. In this post, I'm distilling what I learned from them into a
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Can You Afford It?: Real-world Web Performance Budgets October 22, 2017 TL;DR: performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. Most partners we work
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Daniel Blyth - February 18th, 2021 Learn JavaScript GitHub Tutorial Parse Server is a great, quick way to create an app backend without requiring years of knowledge and time. There are a few additiona
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We’d all like to avoid folly, wouldn’t we? Avoiding stupidity is easier than seeking brilliance . It doesn’t take a genius. Only a few simple ideas. Philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) offers som
Modern Love You May Want to Marry My Husband Credit... Brian Rea Note: Amy Krouse Rosenthal died on March 13, 2017, 10 days after this essay was published. You can read her obituary here . In June, 20
In a fit of “open source your interview process”, I tweeted yesterdaywith the list of questions I’m drawing from when interviewing. A lotof people responded in the gist withamazing suggestions, and I
As most of you know, I left Uber in December and joined Stripe in January. I've gotten a lot of questions over the past couple of months about why I left and what my time at Uber was like. It's a stra
In one generation, the Internet went from opening up new free markets to creating a series of Fake Markets that exploit society, without most media or politicians even noticing. Anil Dash Feb 10, 2017
The case of the 500-mile email Read the FAQ about the story. The following is the 500-mile email story in the form it originallyappeared, in a post to sage-members on Sun, 24 Nov 2002.: From trey@sage
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Hey, guess what? I got married two weeks ago. And like most people, I asked some of the older and wiser folks around me for a couple quick words of advice from their own marriages to make sure my wife
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