jbarnette | 6 years ago | on: Scientist: A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths
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jbarnette | 7 years ago | on: Remembering Evi Nemeth, the “Matriarch of System Administration”
Thanks, Evi. You were kind to me when I was very young and very stupid.
jbarnette | 8 years ago | on: Kubernetes at GitHub
EY, Rackspace, and then our own metal.
jbarnette | 12 years ago | on: State of the Octoverse 2013
Pretty much only the early employees remember where that humans.txt is stashed.
jbarnette | 12 years ago | on: State of the Octoverse 2013
I wouldn't be surprised if a few GitHubbers dropped by Huntsville sometime this summer. Watch the blog.
jbarnette | 12 years ago | on: Google Analytics for GitHub
We'll see what we can do. ;)
jbarnette | 12 years ago | on: How GitHub No Longer Works
There is no such thing as a shit task.
Added: That's a little too glib, sorry. Let me try again: From my perspective, if there's something that needs to be done at GitHub there are a few possibilities:
1. It needs to be done and it's getting done,
2. It needs to be done and it's not getting done, or
3. It's bullshit.
Cases of #3 become obvious pretty quickly. The best evidence: Searching for ways to make someone do it because nobody stepped up.
Cases of #2 can happen for a bunch of different reasons, but malice, apathy, laziness, or incompetence are the least likely ones. The most likely: Not enough hours in the day or not enough people with the knowledge necessary to be worried. No matter the reason for #2, someone at GitHub who is worried will generally try to get others to share their priorities, by persuasion, by hiring, or by prototyping.
Or occasionally by just jumping up and down and wailing.
jbarnette | 12 years ago | on: How GitHub No Longer Works
We use PRP in any situation where someone explicitly takes responsibility for an outcome, no matter whether the outcome is some software or a clean office or an accurate tax return.
jbarnette | 12 years ago | on: Identicons
If you're running a recent version of GitHub Enterprise, the avatar base URL can be configured today. It's possible to run an internal, secure server that responds to Gravatar's URL scheme.
jbarnette | 12 years ago | on: More Git and GitHub Secrets
We released task lists earlier this year: https://github.com/blog/1375-task-lists-in-gfm-issues-pulls-...
jbarnette | 12 years ago | on: GitHub's on your phone
Yup, we're focusing on the pages most likely to be clicked through on mobile first.
jbarnette | 13 years ago | on: Free private Github repos for students and edu people
Have you asked us? support@github are real humans, I promise.
jbarnette | 13 years ago | on: Free private Github repos for students and edu people
I'm really sorry to hear that. I work at GitHub, so if you want to talk more about your experience please drop me a line. It's this username at that domain. Or hit up any other GitHubbers in this thread: We wouldn't be hanging around if we didn't want to hear from you.
jbarnette | 13 years ago | on: Github turns five
NilClass.
jbarnette | 13 years ago | on: Github turns five
It's in the early 7000's.
jbarnette | 13 years ago | on: STL File Viewing
We grabbed a 3D printer for the office a while ago.
jbarnette | 13 years ago | on: Introducing Boxen
Drift after installation and incremental updates were more of a problem for us than initial installs.
jbarnette | 13 years ago | on: Introducing Boxen
We've opened up #boxen on freenode for questions and discussion. We'll idle there whenever we can.
jbarnette | 13 years ago | on: Ruby inline assembler
My favorite thing about this library is that it parses the NASM manual: https://github.com/seattlerb/wilson/blob/master/lib/wilson.r...
jbarnette | 13 years ago | on: Introducing Contributions
Yep, we don't count contributions until they hit a repository's default or gh-pages branch.
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"Let's pretend you're changing the way you handle permissions in a large web app. Tests can help guide your refactoring, but you really want to compare the current and refactored behaviors under load."