Automate to save mental energy, not time Automation doesn't always save as much time or effort as we expect. The xkcd cartoon above is looking at automation as…www.johndcook.com I’ve always thought of automation this way. There’s too many chances for errors when humans are involved in repetitive processes, better to script it even if it doesn’t save much time. ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open In a December 2015 talk at JSConf US, we announced that we would be open-sourcing the key components of the Chakra…blogs.windows.com

I got a bit lazy this time being on holiday, but here’s some interesting articles from the last few weeks. — I analyzed 250 SaaS pricing pages - here's what I found We recently had a major overhaul of our pricing and landing page and wanted to get a good idea of what a high…thenextweb.com The Hacker News comments were interesting as well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10771567 Conceptual Debt is Worse than Technical Debt Definition. The consequences of making bad design choices when choosing concepts to model your product around.medium.com

Files are hard Files are hard I haven't used a desktop email client in years. None of them could handle the volume of email I get without at least…danluu.com It’s been a while since I’ve had to deal with file systems directly — most of the time I’m writing code against databases or other abstractions on top of the file system. This article reminded me how difficult it is to write 100% safe and correct storage code.

I recently presented a talk at the Auckland Software Craftsmanship meetup on how we use Raygun internally at Raygun.io to build the site and all of the backing services. I thought it went pretty well, you can see for yourself on Youtube: I had made it one of my…