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MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server
Original EnglishI use it for testing and local development.
Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software
Original EnglishWhich is to say, pretty much every startup I've worked at over the past 15 years.
Tik Tok is a national security threat
Original EnglishI am responsible also because I failed to live up to the trust and support placed in me by our users.
Ask HN: What was being a software developer like about 30 years ago?
Original EnglishBecause I'd worked on all of them and all of them were simpler.
Zombie Startups
Original EnglishMaybe your revenue wasnt't growing 10% week-over-week, but some metric probably was (maybe you weren't measuring the one that was - like value of leads …
Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App Engine
Original EnglishI've deployed this solution in 50k req/s environments and not seen a single user be a problem like you mention -- any motivated bad actor …
State of JavaScript 2021
Original EnglishMy library, which I have used to rewrite a large application with, is less code, faster, and easier to understand.
SQLite or PostgreSQL? It's Complicated
Original EnglishSure a hypothetical migration will be easier later on, but that migration very, very, very (very) rarely occurs in my experience.
Software Developers after 40, 50 and 60 Who're Still Coding
Original EnglishIt did work earlier but had big issues of bugs, slowness, memory leaks, and maintainability.