Boris Cherny’s Blog: Jobs & Salaries (2026)

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Blog 2 years ago

NPM and NodeJS should do more to make ES Modules easy to use

Coming back to JavaScript and TypeScript after a few years neck deep in Python and Hack, I kept hitting a number of new, cryptic errors when running NodeJS code in my dev environment:

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Blog 3 years ago

Learning to work (very) remotely

For the last year and a half, I have been working at Instagram in Japan. It's a bit of an unusual setup: I live and work remotely from Nara, Japan, in a timezone that few other Meta engineers work in (most of Instagram and Meta are spread across the US an

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Blog 4 years ago

Time and Timing

You often hear that "timing matters". It helps to think about this as two related concepts: time and timing.

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Blog 4 years ago

Dinosaur Food: 100 million year old foods we still eat today

I just finished Oliver Sacks' excellent Everything in Its Place. In it, he mentioned as an aside that the Ginkgo biloba tree is hundreds of millions of years old, and its phenotype has been practically frozen since then - a living fossil.

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Blog 5 years ago

Data Management on the Web Still Sucks

It's 2021, and data management on the web still sucks. This is crazy!

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