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If you’re anything like me, at least 3 or 4 of the keywords in the title of this article fall under the category of “things I’ve been…
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It’s been an up-and-down kind of year for React Native. Last summer, Udacity and Airbnb announced that they were moving off of the…
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I was scrolling through my Twitter feed today and came across a curious-looking ad: Hmm. Last I checked, Twitter doesn’t use random accounts…
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If you work with JavaScript at all, you probably saw a ton of noise yesterday about a vulnerability in the event-stream npm package…
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Aha! is a Rails monolith. Although we have embraced front end technologies, such as webpack and React, Rails is the glue that holds…
More (12 min read) →My Sublime Text Setup Revisited
Three and a half years ago (wow, time flies) I wrote a blog post detailing my Sublime Text configuration. Over that time, I’ve tried out a…
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2.5 years ago, I wrote a post about the state of email apps for Mac that surprisingly got a little popular on Hacker News. At the time…
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My college algorithms class was the final weed-out course in the computer science program. It covered advanced topics like computational…
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Every user knows the frustration of composing a long, thoughtful document or email only to experience a last-second crash or power failure…
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Maintaining useful application logs is an challenging problem, especially when dealing with tens of gigabytes of new data every day. When…
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