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Apple today announced it has completed the acquisition of Shazam, one of the most popular and highly-rated music apps, used by millions worldwide.

Everything is going to hell and nobody seems to care

Nowadays it’s hard to impress or even surprise with an interface animation. It shows interactions between screens, explains how to use the…

MariaDB, the company behind the eponymous MySQL drop-in replacement database, today announced that it has acquired Clustrix, which itself is a MySQL drop-in replacement database, but with a focus on scalability. MariaDB will integrate Clustrix’s technology into its own database, which will allow it to offer its users a more scalable database service in the long […]

There’s a big difference between writing code and being a great programmer. Writing code is the output--and almost anyone can learn the basics of syntax and formatting. But what makes someone...

From the very start, we made very conscious engineering and product decisions to keep Discord well suited for voice chat while playing…

tl;dr I found several bugs in apk, the default package manager for Alpine Linux. Alpine is a really lightweight distro that is very commonly used with Docker...

Today, in a vote that split almost every major EU party, Members of the European Parliament adopted every terrible proposal in the new Copyright Directive and rejected every good one, setting the stage for mass, automated surveillance and arbitrary censorship of the internet: text messages like...

When you try to install the Firefox pr Chrome web browser on a recent Windows 10 version 1809 Insider build, you may notice that the installation gets interrupted by the operating system.

Ditch IDEs like Intellij and glorified text editors like Eclipse, and switch to a real IDE, MS Paint.

Fork - a fast and friendly git client for Mac and Windows.

Hiring the best employees and building a strong culture are imperatives for any company. However, culture fit screens in the interview process have been shown to introduce significant bias. In this post, I dig into what companies actually mean by culture fit, and try to find a way to resolve this conflict. I hope this post will be useful for hiring manager designing an interview process, or engineers getting ready for interviews.

A high performance, open source, general RPC framework that puts mobile and HTTP/2 first.

WPA3, Enhanced Open, Easy Connect: The Wi-Fi Alliance's trio of new protocols explained

The latest AMP messages in Google Search Console are intended to enforce full equivalency in AMP versions. The underlying message is clear. And so is my response.

Report: software engineering efficiency and its $3T impact on global GDP

PagerDuty, the popular service that helps businesses monitor their tech stacks, manage incidents and alert engineers when things go sideways, today announced that it has raised a $90 million Series D round at a valuation of $1.3 billion. With this, PagerDuty, which was founded in 2009, has now rais…

Hooked has 12,489 ratings and 968 reviews. Ted said: Update: I ended up publishing a longer version of this - with a discussion of the trend towards more...

Given how much time I spend producing text, I've spent shockingly little of it considering the tradeoffs of various modes to input it. I had a vague sense that typing is faster than handwriting and that, despite this fact, I still prefer writing......

SPA is great in its own domain. But for consuming different domain it comes with its own cost, and if the API has not been designed…

I'm not sure many web developers can get away without visiting the command line. As for me, I've been using the command line since 1997, first at university when I felt both super cool l33t-hacker and simultaneously utterly out of my depth. Over the years my command line habits have improved and I often search for smarter tools for the jobs I commonly do. With that said, here's my current list of improved CLI tools.

Google today announced that it is providing the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) with $9 million in Google Cloud credits to help further its work on the Kubernetes container orchestrator and that it is handing over operational control of the project to the community. These credits will be s…

Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator, shares his thoughts on how you can succeed with a startup.

Contrary to the belief of most developers, we show that relational databases can be made to scale for time-series data.

Since we launched Hill Charts in Basecamp we’ve been fielding many interesting questions. One common question is: how do we catch more…

A year ago we’ve added SMART metrics collection to our monitoring agent that collects disk drive attributes on clients servers.

Around March of 2017, I received a call asking for a code review on a product about to be launched. This company had issues with memory leaks, spontaneous crashing, slow loading, CPU spiking, and had to release in a couple of weeks. You might have heard this story before, just not from me, and not about this company. It’s surprisingly common. We got together on the weekend and started looking through the code together.

To be honest, GraphQL had its dose of hype the last months.