Vikrum Nijjar joined as the first engineer at Firebase, and did whatever it took to help the company succeed: scaling out infrastructure, shipping mobile SDKs, hosting 1-1 office hours with developers and even standing in as SRE for 24x7 hour shifts... for…

Here’s a common pattern that I see play out very often in software teams: There is a need to change the existing system behavior to accomplish new functionality.  The software engineer l…

The business of gathering market-sensitive information is ripe for automation

Since at least 2016, the divide between the “working class” and the “elite” has been considered a defining issue in American (and Western) politics. This divide has been defined in occupational terms (“blue collar” versus “information workers”), geographic…

This week, let’s take a look at a few core language features that enable us to design really lightweight APIs in Swift, and how we can use them to make a feature or system much more capable through the power of composition.

Google fired four employees for what the technology giant said were violations of its data-security policies, escalating tension between management and activist workers at a company once revered for its open corporate culture.

Over a dozen cuneiform tablets from Ur record the failed business dealings of Ea-Nasir.

Four of our colleagues took a stand and organized for a better workplace. This is explicitly condoned in Google’s Code of Conduct, which…

Retro Emulation Collection for ESPlay Hardware, an ESP32 based game console - pebri86/esplay-retro-emulation

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The tablets aren't supposed to replace regular books, but similar policies have led to restrictions on book donations and price-gouging in other states.

Build robust front-end web applications in Scala with Scala.js

The full story of how I built Bloggi—from idea to launch to where it’s at today, including all the numbers, lessons learned, and what’s next.

A storied bank helped Eastern European bankers loot their own institutions.

We introduce SinGAN, an unconditional generative model that can be learned from a single natural image. Our model is trained to capture the internal distribution of patches within the image, and...