Archive for September, 2015
Requests for discussion
One of the exciting challenges of being an all open source company is figuring out how to get design conversations out of the lunch time discussion and the private IRC/Jabber/Slack channels and into the broader community. There are many different approaches to this, and the most obvious one is to simply use whatever is used [...]
Software: Immaculate, fetid and grimy
Once, long ago, there was an engineer who broke the operating system particularly badly. Now, if you’ve implemented important software for any serious length of time, you’ve seriously screwed up at least once — but this was notable for a few reasons. First, the change that the engineer committed was egregiously broken: the machine that [...]