The Loop: Our Community & Public Platform Roadmap for Q3 2021
Here's a brief recap of what we accomplished in Q2, along with details on our Q3 plans.
Philippe Beaudette
VP-Community
Search Results for: accepted
Privacy is an afterthought in the software lifecycle. That needs to change.
The key to combining privacy and innovation is baking it into the SDLC. Analogous to application security's (AppSec) upstream shift into the development cycle, privacy belongs at the outset of development, not as an afterthought. Here's why.
Why are video calls so tiring? You might have opposing cultural styles
Video meetings aren’t ideal, but we can make them a little easier by understanding that there are multiple ways of interacting with your fellow humans.
Podcast 310: Fix-Server, and other useful command line utilities
Bottlenecks tend to emerge where you least expect them.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
A deeper dive into our May 2019 security incident
We take a detailed look at a hacking incident that gave a user unauthorized access to our code and data.
Dean Ward
Principal Developer - Former
Open source has a funding problem
Relying on volunteers to maintain every open source project isn't long term sustainable. Funding open source projects could keep development moving, but would that funding be raised and who would pay for it?
The complexities—and rewards—of open sourcing corporate software products
Two engineers at Salesforce talk about how they decoupled a complex library from old spaghetti logic, then open sourced that library by creating a new internal process where none existed before.
Can one person run an open source project alone?
No matter how well-intentioned and free wheeling a project is, at some point, to succeed at scale, decisions need to be made and conflicts need to be resolved. But is a project managed best by a single person with the final say or through building consensus with a committee of several people?
Podcast 260: Silicon Valley Exodus
The center of gravity for software is shifting. Tik Tok is a Chinese-born, consumer-facing, global hit. Meanwhile, developers are fleeing San Francisco as the pandemic rages on.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
How the medical sciences exchange helped me with med school
As a 2nd year medical student, I was beginning an intense period of independent study for our first licensing exam (Step 1) when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in April. Studying for this test meant that I had less structured time for volunteering, so I wanted to find a way to contribute to the pandemic effort…
How an interview code submission that wasn’t even submitted changed our process
In a previous role, I was an engineering manager for a well-known company for a particular tech stack. One way we sorted through all the applications was requiring coding tests for potential candidates. One truly stood out, and it taught me to think about what I am really looking for in these sorts of submissions.
Ben Matthews
Director, Engineering