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Trusted by millions, Basecamp puts everything you need to get work done in one place. It’s the calm, organized way to manage projects, work with clients, and communicate company-wide.

There’s an endless debate online between advocates of typed and untyped programming languages (or statically and dynamically typed languages). These conversa...

“What?!”, you say. “GraphQL is a server side query language. Redux is a client-side state management library. How could one replace the…

Gitkube: Build and deploy docker images to Kubernetes using git push

Though JavaScript has the highest number of developers in its community with respect to any other language on earth at this moment; there are a lot of misconceptions, shallow knowledge, bad assumption

One researcher shows despite some speculation, 80 percent of mass shooters didn't show an interest in violent video games

(if you’re working in an open office)

On Wednesday, a 1.3Tbps DDoS attack pummeled GitHub for 15-20 minutes. Here's how it stayed online.

The surprising and delightful things that happened when two Mozillians experimented by turning their iPhones to grayscale.

For the past four years, I’ve worked as a software developer at Google. On February 1st, I quit. It was because they refused to buy me a Christmas present.

I work on a lot of Javascript projects. The fashion in Javascript is to use build tools like Gulp or Webpack that are written and configured in Javascript. I...

Kim Scott cut her teeth as a manager at Apple and Google, and now helps create great leaders as an author and coach for companies like Twitter. Here's the secret that's made all the difference for her.

Three Questions to Ask Yourself Before Making a Senior Hire

Improving your designs with tactics instead of talent.

In early 2017, a conversation with yet another Waze fanboy finally nudged me to start a navigation app experiment. I was skeptical that the Alphabet owned company could meaningfully best its parent…

In this article, I discuss why you should give Go a chance and where to start.

MongoDB is finally getting support for multi-document ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability) transactions. That’s something the MongoDB community has been asking for for years and…

INTO THE WEEDS OF CSS LAYOUT There are lots of reasons to get excited about new layout methods in CSS, but what impact does moving to Flexbox and Grid have on performance? And once you have decided to adopt new layout methods, are some techniques more performant than others? In this talk we’ll take a serious look at the algorithms your browser is using in order to lay things out using Flexbox and Grid. By understanding how these algorithms work, you’ll be in a better position to make good decisions around layout, and fully take advantage of the possible performance gains of new CSS layout.

In recent months, Apple’s software development has been called into question like never before. Between a critical security bug in macOS, a brand-new product being launched late and without h…

via Chaos Engineering we discovered that there are situations where HTTP/2 will perform worse than HTTP/1.

In under a year, we've changed pricing for our SaaS product four times. Here's a deep dive into each attempt, our mistakes, and what we learned.

How to choose a programming language, which not only will turn out to be commercially in demand but also will bring joy in everyday practice? An mkdev.me mentor Ivan Kleshnin gives his answer to these questions.

A begging Rails-developer explains how to maintain the code quality and development approach she was introduced to on the programming classes.

In marketing materials from the world of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) , one often comes across the idea there is…

A technical update on our recent service issues at 3.4M CCU, including a call to action!

Posted by Emily Schechter, Chrome Security Product Manager For the past several years, we’ve moved toward a more secure web by strongly adv...

"It’s sort of like the way modern computer systems are set up."

winamp2-js - A reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and Javascript