Thursday, January 08, 2015

The goal of programming is not the system, but the process of keeping the system alive

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This took me a long time to realize... Over the years I've (co-)created a bunch of programs, systems and projects. Small programs, lik...
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Sunday, December 28, 2014

Post-its on the board are a symptom of the team knowing what they are supposed to do, not the cause of it

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TL;DR: if people know what they are supposed to do from the text that fits on a post-it, things are going well - if they don't, the post...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

AngularJS 1.3 is 40% faster than 1.2 on an iPhone. Or is it 20% faster?

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AngularJS 1.3 was released today! I ran my simple list generation test on both AngularJS 1.2 and 1.3 using the Profiler . A simple ans...
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Friday, October 10, 2014

Writing asynchronous nginx plugins with python and tornado for 1000 qps

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TL;DR by returning X-Accel-Redirects and using multiple tornado processes you can use python as an async plugin language for nginx. I...
Wednesday, October 01, 2014

Experiences in using python and ffmpeg to transcode broadcast video

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This is a rough guide to implementing a transcoding pipeline from broadcast video to multi-bitrate mobile-friendly video, using ffmpeg. No c...
Monday, September 22, 2014

Flow - do you speak it?

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There's a lot of talk about flow and interruptions in our industry. I think everybody agrees that you don't get much programming do...
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Saturday, September 20, 2014

People don't run the same code on different platforms, except when it's too hard not to

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TL;DR - Google uses GWT and j2objc to implement Operational Transforms on all platforms - so I shouldn't expect to be able to implemen...
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