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Local-first tech has been around since before the internet, and scalable local-first tech has become increasingly accessible due to the hard work of many, many incredibly talented engineers over the years (e.g. via the…

Having been coding for nearly 25 years now and being in engineering management for the past couple of years (still actively coding 30-50% of my time), I'm feeling increasingly tired of tech. Software development, more…

Seems like GitHub's struggling at the moment: https://downdetector.com/status/github/ I'm getting unicorns.

Can anyone perhaps recommend any strategies/approaches for transitioning into biotech, without having had any experience specifically in biotech? I’ve personally been working at non-FAANG companies across several…

Does anyone use, or know of use cases for, Byzantine fault-tolerant databases outside of cryptocurrency?

I submitted a link today that got flagged pretty quickly. My original intention was to make people aware of the fact that it seems as though a large number of scientists have signed a declaration claiming that “there is…

I suppose my own context is somewhat unique, in that we have a very technical product that's used by other technical products. This means our customers are all effectively engineers. Some of these customers even used to…

I'm a software engineer working in a team distributed across North American and European time zones. Recently we've grown somewhat from a small team (effectively doubling in the past year), and it just seems like we sit…

Are there any, or can we maybe come up with (i.e. suggestions please if it seems like a good idea), HTTP headers that browsers can send to sites that automatically instruct them in terms of: 1. The kinds of cookies I'm…

So here we are in 2020, and it seems as though it's really hard to get away from tracking time (activity) as opposed to other metrics that might be better indicators of productivity. Don't get me wrong, I find tracking…