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Technical taste is different from technical skill. You can be technically strong but have bad taste, or technically weak with good taste. Like taste in general, technical taste sometimes runs ahead of your ability: just like you can tell good food from bad without being able to cook, you can know what kind of software you like before you’ve got the ability to build it. You can develop technical ability by study and repetition, but good taste is developed in a more mysterious way.

proposto dal Dr. Alistair Cockburn nel 2005. Mira a creare architetture liberamente accoppiate in cui i componenti delle applicazioni possano essere testati in modo indipendente, senza dipendenze da archivi di dati o interfacce utente

The GitHub Archive Program is a GitHub initiative to ensure that open source software is preserved for future generations. It includes both very-long-term storage such as the GitHub Arctic Code Vault and ongoing backups of public repositories by nonprofit organizations such as Software Heritage and the Internet Archive.

The “Greatest Hits” are archives of GitHub’s 17,000 most-popular and most-dependended-upon repositories, written to hardened film designed to last for 1,000 years, enclosed in beautiful museum-quality cases, and donated to three of the world’s great libraries, on three different continents.

I recently bought a cheap Tapo indoor camera to see what my dog gets up to when I am out of the house. What actually followed? I ended up reverse-engineering onboarding flows, decompiling an APK, MITMing TLS sessions, and writing cryptographic scripts.

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cache; 2  3$lock = Cache::lock('foo', 10); 4  5if ($lock->get()) { 6 // Lock acquired for 10 seconds... 7  8 $lock->release(); 9}

why do we collectively place higher security requirements on webhook requests than API

I’ll posit that the primary reason most people don’t opt for signing their API requests is because of herd mentality

the company with fewer lines of code is better off. They have fewer lines of code and so they can understand and modify their code more quickly

OAuth was first introduced in 2007. It was created at Twitter because Twitter wanted a way to allow third-party apps to post tweets on users' behalf.

OKLCH is a newer color model that is designed to be perceptually uniform. This means that colors are much more accurate in terms of how humans perceive them and it makes working with them much easier

passion without boundaries will lead you to burnout.

Why was I responding to tweets on the beach? I hadn't built the system for others to take ownership

You can push the pace without being an asshole. The ideal state is that your team both loves what they're working on and can ship fast

Aggressive deadlines expose hidden complexity

My goal was to build a culture that set aggressive deadlines, but also was okay with sometimes missing dates. If there's no date, it might take 3 months. But if you set a date of 2 weeks and it actually takes 1 month, great, you just shipped a first version 3x faster.

It's one of my favorite parts about roles like DX and Design Engineers. These are folks who can code, design, build, and ship. They have extreme agency and operate more like founders.