jayp's comments

Zerzar - this looks awesome! Right now we're a small team in the same timezone, but can definitely see value as we expand our team!

Netlify announces move from .netlify.com to .netlify.app with the note that "it’s important to note all of your existing sites will continue to operate properly using their current URLs." Even says so here now: https://community.netlify.com/t/changes-coming-to-netlify-si....

What is their solution? Just fwd .netlify.com to .netlify.app. This breaks Chrome extensions that hotload code from a specific domain. The Fix? To publish a new version to Chrome webstore to unbreak this. The approval takes a few days.

Netlify obviously did not think of all corner cases or allow users to test this before hand!

This is a great comment. Love it.

On my end, I’ve recently started working on documenting (still very, very early) on the “measuring” part at https://datadriventeam.org. It is backed by an open source GitHub repo and I hope people would contribute once I’ve gotten the initial version out.

Thought I'd write up a technique that's helping iterate a lot faster on our startup. Would be happy to answer any questions or entertain thoughts I may have missed.

This comment is aligned very much with my current thinking. Hiring highly paid engineers but not maximizing their problem solving ability is a significant problem in large companies.

Empowering bottoms-up problem solving by sharing customer pains and feedback broadly is the exactly problem I am trying to solve with my current project/startup [1].

I am gonna shoot you an email later today to see if you have any further thoughts on how do this effectively within an org.

If anyone has ideas on good implementing this, would love to learn so we can incorporate this within our offering. My email is in my profile.

[1] https://www.heraldhq.com

Uber has always been self hosted. Some workloads are on Cloud and migrating more there. I last worked there 2 years ago.

What did you end up buying? Any regrets?

I got something from cable matters but think it is faulty and cuts out on PD at times. I am looking for a replacement.

We just launched a new blog. It's called Userstand (https://www.heraldhq.com/userstand/), and we aim to chronicle how innovative companies understand their users.

Our first article is a conversation with Deel (YC W19) co-founder Alex Bouaziz] on How Deel's Customer Service Fuels its Growth. Let us know what you think!

Congrats on the launch Rob and Martin. M3 is an amazing product which I had the privilege to use at Uber. Wish you two the best for your journey ahead!

My co-founder at Midtype, Neel, wrote this article by looking at onboarding flows of a dozen or so successful companies.

We have picked up a few tips on how to improve our own onboarding process.

What is a good onboarding that you experienced recently?

Disclaimer: My co-founder at Midtype Neel wrote that article.

I have used GraphQL for the last 2 projects I've been involved with... and definitely was a better experience for frontend engineers.

Was the last API you built REST or GraphQL? Why you pick one vs. the other?

Not sure where this is coming from. Not my experience, but I am one data point.

I am happy for LTSE.

The article doesn't explains what makes LTSE different than NYSE? How will it actually encourage looking beyond the next quarter? Where can one learn about that?

Congrats to the GitPrime team.

While the acquisition price is public, would love to learn more about revenue or # of customers. They must have had some serious revenue/traction to be bought for $170M.

I just switched back to Thinkpad X1 w/ Windows. With Linux Subsystem for Windows, it's been roughly working out. though I am currently maintaining two copies of things - one for Linux and one for Windows for lots of tooling. Not sure how to optimize here. Only been a few days. Re-learning keyboard shortcuts.

Only pain: not having iMessage on laptop.

One specific question is how does one resolve an issue?

One option is to automatically revert back to a commit when an issue is discovered until a fix can be applied. Does anyone use this? If so, what is your team's SCM (i.e., git) workflow?

My guess:

Not in a law-of-physics point of view, but I suppose, it is from the perspective of the entity that pays for the server.

If you can push the computation to the end point, and simply spend fewer resources (let's say, 1000x fewer resources) to coordinate the task, then, behold 1000x cost reduction!

Please let me know if there are any concerns/comments about the article.

Sharding via a Tweet Storm(TM).

Completely tangential: can you please invite me to lobste.rs?