How I built a Slack controlled lamp to minimize accidental Zoom guests By now, if you have a home office, this must have happened to you. Your partner/roommate/children must have office-crashed right in your important presentation. This has happened to me, more than once, I admit. After the third time…

R3 is an annual event to Reflect, Refine and Reinvent Nextdoor. R3 goes beyond a hackathon by being more of an idea-thon. Everyone in the company, from engineers to sales to Neighborhood Operations, gets together to reimagine our product. We asked some folks why R3 is important to Nextdoor: “R3…

(this post is adapted from an earlier article: https://engblog.nextdoor.com/what-is-the-technology-behind-nextdoor-5b74b3efcc31) On a typical day at Nextdoor, we are: Deploying to production 12–15 times Inserting billions of rows to our Postgres and DynamoDB tables Handling millions of user sessions concurrently Adding new neighborhoods to Nextdoor (over 247,000 neighborhoods worldwide) Getting ready or…

You probably have seen this somewhere while playing with open ssh. These cryptic characters are called Randomart Images taken from What is randomart? So why is this interesting to us? Well lets suppose you have a long list of keys… like the one at your servers ~/.ssh/known_hosts/ and you…

If you’ve ever been to San Francisco and are observant enough, you’ve likely seen these small orange fishes everywhere. The Koi fish. According to Japanese legend, there was once a particularly determinded Koi fish. Despite the warnings of all the other koi fish in his pond, this heedless little fish…

Rails is probably the best thing that happened to Ruby, but it can also be holding it back. Hiring Freezes, Javascript Sprinkles, Majestic Monoliths, will work great for you, if you happen to be Basecamp. These strategies require a specific Work Culture, Product and Engineering skillset to be properly executed. …

1. Sarah Mei: Writing code is not the only way to help Open Source Railsbridge is a 1.5 day workshop that helps women to learn how make their first “Hello World app”. I’ve met dozens of engineers who got their start on one of these workshops and I’m sure there are hundreds more. Railsbridge is demonstrating that the talent is out there, they…

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