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Guillermo Rauch tweeted this a while back. Let’s take a quick dive into what it means.

In recent years, JavaScript has grown considerably in size. This blog post explores what’s still missing.

Do you want to know how to leverage Google for your SEO needs? Check out this list of 42 Google advanced search operators, plus 15 actionable ways to use them to accomplish specific SEO tasks.

As a software developer, I know first-hand how difficult it is to build quality products quickly and cheaply. It’s an art form that we sometimes get right, and other times devolves into something akin to the Obama era healthcare government site. Our level of control over the resulting product varies, and blame for failure often falls on the wrong people in the decision-making hierarchy. Microsoft’s Azure DevOps (formerly known as Visual Studio Team Services), despite clearly good intentions, is a perfect storm of bad decisions and poor execution.

When we started working on a Continuous Integration solution back in 2011, it was hard to imagine what Travis CI would become. Years later, we’re still continuously working to make our community an...

This is the third post in my full-stack dev (f-s d) series on the secret life of data. This installment is about a single text message: how it was typed, stored, sent, received, and displayed. I sp…

Improbable is taking a daring step after announcing earlier today that Unity had revoked its license to operate on the popular game development engine. The UK-based cloud gaming startup has inked a late-night press release with Unity rival Epic Games, which operates the Unreal Engine and is the creator of Fortnite, establishing a $25 million […]

I believe that most advice on choosing a startup to work for is wrong. Early employees at wildly successful startups suggest you assume the value of your equity is zero (https://twitter.com/rabois/status/679722946919677952) and instead optimize for how much you can learn (https://triplebyte.com/blog/interview-with-gmail-creator-and-y-combinator-partner-paul-buchheit). In this post I'll argue that evaluating how likely a startup is to succeed should actually be the most important factor in your decision to join one. As a former partner at Y Combinator, I know a lot about how investors do thi...

A new report finds gaming is now more lucrative in the UK than video and music combined.

90/10 is one of the most developer-friendly splits of any PC publishing platform

For the past few years, Microsoft has meaningfully increased participation in the open source software (OSS) community, becoming one of the world’s largest supporters of OSS projects. Today we’re announcing that we intend to adopt the Chromium open source project in the development of Microsoft Edge on the desktop to create better web compatibility for […]

Today we're announcing the most-significant evolution of our platform — something we've been building towards for a long time that we're thrilled to share…

tl;dr Visual Studio Code usage is rising rapidly! VS Code is now the editor chosen by the majority of engineers during programming interviews, and it appears to be rapidly taking market share from other top editors. Triplebyte interviews hundreds of engineers each week. For every interview, we record the editor, language and operating system each candidate uses. We don't use this data to decide who passes our interview (I don't think that would be fair). However, it is fascinating data! It gives us insight into which tools different cohorts of engineers prefer, and how these preferences hav...

Lessons learned from scaling Stripe's engineering team.

From Pub-Sub messaging to Foreign Data Wrappers - five extraordinary features that made Postgres our backend of choice for Arcentry

Valve has traditionally taken a 30-percent cut for revenues on Steam, but now it's facing stiff competition from one of the biggest developers in the world.

Here are some of our favorite Hacker News comments from August to November: A thread on bad codebases ranging from war stories to horror stories, developing Crash Bandicoot for PS1, meeting Ricky Jay, Victorian culinary trading cards, and a TV meteorologist experiences tech envy.

Today we are excited to announce the public availability of HashiCorp Vault 1.0. Vault is a tool to manage secrets and protect sensitive data for any infrastructure and application...

Two years ago Verve invested in GraphQL. None of us had ever worked with it before, but it turned out to be a great decision. Here's why!

A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image. Contribute to wagoodman/dive development by creating an account on GitHub.

Amazon’s renowned secrecy encompasses its response to a new security issue, withholding info that could help victims protect themselves. Amazon emailed users Tuesday, warning them that it exposed an unknown number of customer email addresses after a “technical error” on its website. When reached for comment, an Amazon spokesperson told TechCrunch that the issue exposed […]

The HBO series gets it right. And it doesn’t make any more fun of us tech people than we deserve.

Here’s a guide on how to prevent and protect yourself against the threat of hackers taking over your phone number and going after your online accounts.

GraphQL, the Facebook -incubated data query language, is moving into its own open-source foundation. Like so many other similar open-source foundations, the aptly named GraphQL Foundation will be hosted by the Linux Foundation. Facebook announced GraphQL back in 2012 and open sourced it in 2015. Today, it’s being used by companies that range from Airbnb […]

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