Engineering

Kotlin for grumpy Java developers

Sha Sha Chu | Android Platform tech lead, Core Experience

So you’re an Android developer. You’ve been writing Java code for years and your code is clean, testable and well-architected. Then Google announces official support for Kotlin at Google…

How do you become a leader without explicit authority?

How I stay productive working remotely

One year ago, I made one of the best decisions of my life, I joined Help Scout to build our…

On Particle, IoT, and solving hard problems

Particle is an IoT platform. That’s a very jargon-y way to describe us, and it…

This is our jam: How Postlight kickstarts every idea with a real product plan

Preventing regressions

In this article we’ll look at various techniques for preventing regressions…

How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5,000,000 Concurrent Users

Tech writers are underrated

I have long seen the Bay Area (and tech industry in general) hold up the engineers, or the designers, as the…

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Introducing the Ueno advice column

Introducing Paralayout

From the Cash team at Square, a new iOS open-source project that makes UI…