Scott Chacon

A long time ago, Twitter used to have a little crappy part of their docs site where you could put in a URL and it would show you what the unfurl would look like before you actually post the URL. For some reason, they removed that. I have never understood

How Git's wire protocol was quietly rebuilt for the age of huge repos, load-balanced servers, and CDNs - one capability at a time.

Photo by Dominik Ferl on Unsplash (This was an internal whitepaper for Chatterbug that I wrote when we were debating the use of flags as an iconic representation of languages in our app) Many websites and other user interfaces over the years, both online

In nearly any company, but especially tech companies, how does one handle seating arrangements? Often this is done by department, but for smaller companies without so much space - and especially now with more flexible work-from-home and partial remote pol

A viral MIT study got badly misreported. The data actually shows adults can reach near-native mastery - here

One of the most difficult parts of learning a new language, especially if you've never done so before, is having a good idea of just what exactly it is that you're in for. Here we'll take a look at the various stages of language learning and how many Euro

Since I've been fortunate enough to go from a pretty successful valley startup to a new startup just getting off the ground, I tend to get asked pretty often what I learned at GitHub and what lessons we learned that we're carrying over. I figured since I'

Issues with git-flow I travel all over the place teaching Git to people and nearly every class and workshop I've done recently has asked me what I think about git-flow . I always answer that I think that it's great - it has taken a system (Git) that has a

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