On the train this morning, reading through my Readability reading list, I read one of the more compelling essays on software architecture which I’ve seen lately…
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May 16th, 2012
No DB?!?
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May 8th, 2012
Why building relationships works better than recruiting.
Nothing goes south faster than a mismatched employee. We’re lucky to attract ambitious hard-workers here at Arc90, people who have big appetites for churning through work. If we don’t have enough work to hire someone—or if the work we have doesn’t match their goals—then I inevitably end up with an… More
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April 3rd, 2012
Git-sweep—Fresh from the Arc90 Lab
Here at Arc90 we use Git—and naturally, GitHub—for a lot of the work that we do. One of the greatest features Git provides is branching. I can work on my-whizbang-feature in a branch, committing early and often, and not affect the master branch where the expectation is tested and stable… More
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March 5th, 2012
Profiling Node Programs on Mac OS X
I’ve had a lot of trouble finding decent instructions on how to do this. Once I eventually found the information I needed, I thought I should share.
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March 1st, 2012
From our Lab to the World: Readability
In 2009, Readability launched as a free bookmarklet in the Arc90 Lab. It was a couple hundred lines of code and good at what it set out to do: make any web page more readable. As such, it was named the best tech idea of 2009 by David Pogue at… More
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February 23rd, 2012
Socializing and Innovating with Kindling
Very often, the tools we create are tangible manifestations of our culture and beliefs. Arc90 always strives to be the sort of place where you can crash a whiteboard with an idea. As we started to grow, it became tougher to scale up that culture of brainstorming and collaboration. Before… More
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January 23rd, 2012
Gmailing Things Done
TL;DR I’ve implemented most of the GTD organizational system using just Gmail. You can too! Introduction For many years, I’ve been a devotee, if not quite an adherent, to the productivity school known as “Getting Things Done“, much more commonly referred to as GTD. GTD is based on a book… More
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October 20th, 2011
The Click
Unlike the other men and women I work with, I have no computer languages under my belt. When semantics comes up in a meeting, I follow along based on the experience I have: most notably, French, German and some Spanish. So I’ve always been curious. Is learning a computer language… More
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