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At the beginning of 2016, Nextdoor production releases took about an hour. That is to say, once all the code in the new release was tested…

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Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

If you're like me and don't have the scratch or space for a larger air compressor, you're probably stuck with the 6-gallon pancake that I have. With such a small tank the thing cycles on constantly and it is LOUD. So, here's an alternative: In this video industrial designer Eric

In this new episode of The New Stack Makers, Docker director of ecosystem development John Willis discusses how containers change traditional practices of application and system monitoring. TNS ebook editor Benjamin Ball conducted the interview to prepare for our fifth ebook: Monitoring and Management with Docker and Containers. Building On Docker's Native Monitoring Functionality In terms of…

World's largest collection of useful web developer tools. HTML encoder/decoder, URL escaper/unescaper, JavaScript, JSON, CSS and HTML minifier/beautifier, and many more!

Here's the obvious way: Watch people waiting to go through the line. Find the spot where the line slows down, where there's a gap between one person and the next. That's the spot tha…

Here are the caveats for the rant I am about to write. The fact that I am writing this on Medium will cause many of you to dismiss me for hypocrisy. Don’t. Read to the end. I will be saying the wor…

When you can’t bang!

What the world needs now is not more emotionally fragile, harried, and uncertain people. Deeply consider the potential effect your product has on users, and how that effect can cause ripples in soc…

Imagine if the owner of the local bookstore hid books from various authors or publishers. They're on the shelf, sure, but misfiled, or hidden behind other books. Most of us would find this off…

5 questions for Amy Silvers: Implementing, embedding, and championing user research in design teams.

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Greg Diamos on building computer systems for deep learning and AI.

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: The art and science of fostering serendipity skills.

The mantra in real estate is “location, location, location.” You can upgrade kitchens and bathrooms all day, but if you’re in the wrong neighborhood it won’t sell. The same is true for products. Fo…

A collection of guidelines, use cases and experiments with the Yubikey - GitHub - ruimarinho/yubikey-handbook: A collection of guidelines, use cases and experiments with the Yubikey

Communication skills make or break the effectiveness of a developer.

TL;DR: Move Service Locator calls up the object graph iteratively. ALSO: Poor Man's Dependency Injection breaks testing. Avoid it. More and more, application architecture is migrating towards Dependency Injection to decouple components and ease testing. One of the challenges of applying this to existing applications is how to get

If the airport’s experimental team succeeds, every critical infrastructure site in the world might soon have its own in-house intel operation.

Domain Name certificates used to be expensive. In this post, I’ll walk through the process of setting up good, inexpensive and accessible DNS security using several public tools.

My prediction? That 2017 will see the end of the word “telco” in current usage

We’re putting machine learning to work on the hi-res images in Google+ Streams so they load using up to 75% less bandwidth per image, but display in their full glory.

optimizing JavaScript application performance

What is hidden beneath the «real-time» keyword? Can you make a real-time application using the traditional technology stack? In this post…