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Apr 9, 2017

What your company website’s source code is saying about your business

We can apply Conway’s Law to learn about a company’s structure and values, and the lessons are insightful to insiders & outsiders — Catapulted into most developer’s set of oft-quoted computer laws by The Mythical Man Month, Conway’s Law says: Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations Typically when developers mention this, it is to complain about how complicated their current…

Web Development

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What a company’s source code says about the company
What a company’s source code says about the company
Web Development

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Mar 29, 2017

Conferences & Minnebar: It isn’t about the talks. It’s about the talking.

tl;dr; Conferences like Minnebar are where you learn things you didn’t know you should learn, so get out there and start attending! Conferences, especially technology conferences, are a very fascinating lens to see an industry. But attending conferences doesn’t always feel like a logical use of time+money to everyone (especially those who have never been to a conference). On one hand, isn’t every topic something that’s already published online and watchable on…

Conference

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Conferences & Minnebar: It isn’t about the talks. It’s about the talking.
Conferences & Minnebar: It isn’t about the talks. It’s about the talking.
Conference

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Best Buy Developers

·Mar 1, 2017

We’re Going All SSL

Best Buy’s APIs have accepted both plain-text (HTTP) and SSL (HTTPS) API requests for a long time. This year, in the interest of improving everyone’s security & privacy, we’re dropping plain-text support. Here’s the gist of what we’re doing: api.remix.bestbuy.com and api.bbyremix.bestbuy.com are going away in favor of api.bestbuy.com Starting…

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We’re Going All SSL
We’re Going All SSL

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Oct 22, 2016

API Documentation Can’t [Yet] Document APIs

Search. The final frontier. At least for RESTful Web API documentation. And that’s really unfortunate because as the industry realizes APIs are as vital to our systems as HTML, the shortcomings in API documentation are forcing some bad choices: Only describe CRUD operations in your API documentation, leaving the R[ead]…

API

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API Documentation Can’t [Yet] Document APIs
API Documentation Can’t [Yet] Document APIs
API

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Jul 31, 2016

Why I stopped hacking the Amazon Dash button and learned to solder

tl;dr; Stop trying to hack the Amazon Dash button. Just buy a cheap doorbell, a Raspberry Pi, and solder them together. You’ll get more flexibility and keep some heavy metals out of our landfills. Now the actual story

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Why I stopped hacking the Amazon Dash button and learned to solder
Why I stopped hacking the Amazon Dash button and learned to solder

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Best Buy Developers

·Nov 23, 2015

Watch Us Write Our New API Documentation

James Yu, a co-founder of Parse, said: Documentation is a layered beast. Truer words are rarely spoken. And writing blog posts about how to write API documentation is almost as old as the idea of RESTful APIs (one we particularly appreciate is Braintree’s story.) While we’re very big fans of…

API

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API

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Best Buy Developers

·May 14, 2015

A “Best Buy Fanboi” Takes Over the API Team

https://flic.kr/p/2ZyxsN On September 23, 2008, two technologies were exposed to the world: Best Buy introduced Remix and Google introduced Android. It is no understatement to say both platforms surpassed even the most optimistic early expectations. …

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A “Best Buy Fanboi” Takes Over the API Team
A “Best Buy Fanboi” Takes Over the API Team

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Apr 13, 2015

We get it. You like email.

Now stop abusing it so the rest of us can get back to work. There is no shortage of advice about email. Some of them are pretty extreme. Some want to destroy it altogether. But I prefer to accept a reality where incremental improvements have a higher probability of success…

Email

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6 Things We Should Agree About Email
6 Things We Should Agree About Email
Email

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