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I'm interested in building some open source projects/libraries, with long term monetization being the addition of paid/premium additional features. I have a soft spot for (and expertise in) Ruby and Ruby on Rails, but I…

At work we run a mostly RoR monolith, but are slowly introducing TypeScript backends for new capabilities. We're mostly doing this because hiring for Ruby devs is proving very difficult in our geography (Australia). The…

The company I work in is experiencing significant growth, and adding new team members all the time. I'd love to hear from people who feel they have nailed their new team member onboarding (especially to technical…

I'd love to hear from people who feel they have nailed their new team member onboarding (especially to technical teams). What makes it work? What did you try that didn't work?

Outreach to prospective customers costs a lot in effort and advertising. What if companies could pay you (a prospective customer) to sit through a sales pitch and product demo. Would you do it? On the flip side, would…

This question is directed at people who use coding challenges to help assess candidates for developer roles. What is your process? What tools do you use? What sort of challenges do you have? Do you have different…

Sometimes as your codebase grows it is hard to know when parts of your codebase can be retired. This issue impacts dynamic languages like Ruby/Javascript where it can be difficult to statically analyze code for such…

Hey all, I posted a Show HN over the weekend and it didn't get any votes/comments. This might be because it didn't really interest anyone, maybe because it never got off "new", or possibly a bit from column a and a bit…

Hey all, I recently wrote a team glossary for my day job. I used confluence and found the experience quite underwhelming. The wiki produced an ugly result, it was labor intensive to bring a consistent structure to each…