Embracing ambiguity in software with one of YouTube’s UX engineers
Read a profile of Mattaniah on People of Color in Tech (POCIT) here.Connect with Mattaniah on LinkedIn or follow her on TikTok.Who remembers Vine??This week’s tech recs: Cassidy recommends her Hifiman...
1 Apr 202233min
Give us 23 minutes, we’ll give you some flow state
Why has this empty NPM package been installed 700,000 times? We’ve got the answer for ya.A nice article and podcast on flow state, including the claim that 23 minutes is the magic number of minutes it...
29 Mar 202223min
Human laziness is the ultimate security threat
Vercel is a developer-first, frontend-focused platform. Together with Google and Meta, Vercel built Next.js, an open-source React framework that helps developers build high-performance web experiences...
25 Mar 202237min
Getting through a SOC 2 audit with your nerves intact
Once a company reaches a certain size, their customers might start asking for proof that it has good security and data habits. They want to know if there’s a business continuity plan in place in case ...
23 Mar 202226min
Codespaces moves into public beta, the virtual real estate worth millions, and how microservices and CI/CD can hurt productivity
Geriatric millennials unite.Learn more about GitHub’s move to put prebuilt Codespaces into public beta, plus check out CodeSandbox, home of self-proclaimed lazy developers.Meanwhile, in blockchain: Po...
22 Mar 202234min
McDonald’s is to Chipotle what REST APIs are to GraphQL
Danielle’s path to software engineering began when she was accepted into MIT’s Women’s Technology Program, an education and mentorship opportunity for high schoolers interested in engineering or compu...
18 Mar 202237min
Visual Studio turns 25, new ideas for supporting open source, and of course…NFTs
The team pays tribute to Microsoft’s Visual Studio, an IDE and source code editor that turns 25 this month.Read Simon Willison’s article on how companies can financially support the open-source contri...
15 Mar 202229min
Crypto feels broken. That’s because it’s the internet circa 1996.
David is a CS major who worked in Apple’s music group in the 90s and went on to become CEO of eMusic in the aughts. At Venrock, David invested in early-stage crypto, consumer, and enterprise tech comp...
11 Mar 202220min
