yossorion

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

bcoe

npm Users By Downloads (git.io/npm-top)

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npm users sorted by the monthly downloads of their modules, for the range May 6, 2018 until Jun 6, 2018.

Metrics are calculated using top-npm-users.

#	User	Downloads

beaugunderson

from streams session

• end-of-stream - specify a callback to be called when a stream ends (which is surpsingly hard to get right)
• duplexify - compose a Duplex stream from a Readable and a Writable stream
• pump - pipe streams together and close all of them if one of them closes
• pumpify - combine an array of streams into a single duplex stream using pump and duplexify
• through2 - tools for making Transform streams
• from2 - tools for making Readable streams

from "participatory modules" session

max-mapper

Interdisciplinary Open Source Community Conferences

Criteria

• Must be an event that someone involved in open source would be interested in attending
• Must be a community oriented event (no corporate owned for-profit events here please)
• Can't be about a specific language/framework.

Leave suggestions in the comments below

max-mapper

stephenparish

Commit Message Conventions

These rules are adopted from the AngularJS commit conventions.

• Goals
• Generating CHANGELOG.md
  • Recognizing unimportant commits
  • Provide more information when browsing the history
• Format of the commit message
• Subject line

insin

/** @jsx React.DOM */

var STATES = [
  'AL', 'AK', 'AS', 'AZ', 'AR', 'CA', 'CO', 'CT', 'DE', 'DC', 'FL', 'GA', 'HI',
  'ID', 'IL', 'IN', 'IA', 'KS', 'KY', 'LA', 'ME', 'MD', 'MA', 'MI', 'MN', 'MS',
  'MO', 'MT', 'NE', 'NV', 'NH', 'NJ', 'NM', 'NY', 'NC', 'ND', 'OH', 'OK', 'OR',
  'PA', 'RI', 'SC', 'SD', 'TN', 'TX', 'UT', 'VT', 'VA', 'WA', 'WV', 'WI', 'WY'
]

var Example = React.createClass({

dominictarr

Weird Idea

UPDATE working on this here!

so… I've had this weird idea recently...

In git (and in other secure + distributed systems) you have a tree of hashes where each object is identified by it's hash and objects contain pointers to other objects. They just have the hash of other objects stored inside them.

dankrause

import requests

class HoverException(Exception):
    pass


class HoverAPI(object):
    def __init__(self, username, password):
        params = {"username": username, "password": password}
        r = requests.post("https://www.hover.com/api/login", params=params)

defunctzombie

The spec has moved to a repo: https://github.com/defunctzombie/package-browser-field-spec to facilitate collaboration.