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Sep 17, 2022 at 22:04
On the tendency for short term software design decisions to impact thousands of people for years:
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Jul 9, 2023 at 02:25
A great deep dive on building GitHub's code view, optimising React, scaling to thousands whilst supporting both Ctrl-F and syntax highlighting:
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Crafting a better, faster code view
The new GitHub Code View brings users many new features to improve the code reading and exploration experiences, and we overcame a number of unique technical hurdles in order to deliver those features without compromising performance.
May 28, 2019 at 19:10
"Instead of a community of active contributors, open source often looks more like a few developers playing air traffic controller to thousands of users who are lightly involved." https://increment.com/open-source/the-rise-of-few-maintainer-projects/ Fabulous post on how software contribution dynamics have changed.
The rise of few-maintainer projects – Increment: Open Source
Jul 28, 2018 at 11:45
"We’ve told stories about inanimate things coming to life for thousands of years, and these narratives influence how we interpret what is going on now" On AI coverage in the press: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/25/ai-artificial-intelligence-social-media-bots-wrong