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

Arinerron

android.permission.ACCESS_ALL_DOWNLOADS
android.permission.ACCESS_BLUETOOTH_SHARE
android.permission.ACCESS_CACHE_FILESYSTEM
android.permission.ACCESS_CHECKIN_PROPERTIES
android.permission.ACCESS_CONTENT_PROVIDERS_EXTERNALLY
android.permission.ACCESS_DOWNLOAD_MANAGER
android.permission.ACCESS_DOWNLOAD_MANAGER_ADVANCED
android.permission.ACCESS_DRM_CERTIFICATES
android.permission.ACCESS_EPHEMERAL_APPS
android.permission.ACCESS_FM_RADIO

razwan

$baseline-unit:         12px                !default;
$baseline-debug:        false               !default;

@mixin baseline($baseline-font-size: 16px, $baseline-line-height: 1.25, $cap-height-ratio: 0.68, $margin-bottom: 3rem) {

    $baseline-distance: ($baseline-line-height - $cap-height-ratio) / 2;

    // set the proper font-size and line-height to size the element in multiples of baseline units
    font-size: ($baseline-font-size / $baseline-unit) * 1rem;
    line-height: $baseline-line-height;

alekseykulikov

Recently CSS has got a lot of negativity. But I would like to defend it and show, that with good naming convention CSS works pretty well.

My 3 developers team has just developed React.js application with 7668 lines of CSS (and just 2 !important). During one year of development we had 0 issues with CSS. No refactoring typos, no style leaks, no performance problems, possibly, it is the most stable part of our application.

Here are main principles we use to write CSS for modern (IE11+) browsers:

• SUIT CSS naming conventions + SUIT CSS design principles;
• PostCSS + CSSNext. Future CSS syntax like variables, nesting, and autoprefixer are good enough;
• Flexbox is awesome. No need for grid framework;
• Normalize.css, base styles and variables are solid foundation for all components;

manigandham

Strictly Frameworks

• Mobiledoc - github.com/bustle/mobiledoc-kit - framework to build editors with a standardized JSON structure
• ShareDB - github.com/share/sharedb - framework to sync any JSON document using operational transforms, add real-time collaborative editing to anything else
• Bangle.dev - github.com/bangle-io/bangle.dev - toolkit built for building editors, based on prosemirror

Abstracted Editors

These use separate document structures instead of HTML, some are more modular libraries than full editors

razwan

$base-font-size: 	16px;
$base-line-height: 	1.5;

// this value may vary for each font
// unitless value relative to 1em
$cap-height: 		0.68;


@mixin baseline($font-size, $scale: 2) {

lelandbatey

Description

This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.

The script is here:

#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"

Results

ragingwind

Backend Architectures

Twitter

ror, scala, jetty, erlang, thrift, mongrel, comet server, my-sql, memchached, varnish, kestrel(mq), starling, gizzard, cassandra, hadoop, vertica, munin, nagios, awstats

• Introduce Gizzard of Twitter - 트위터의 새로운 분산 관리 라이브러리 Gizzard를 소개합니다.
• The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users, 300K QPS, a 22 MB/S Firehose, and Send Tweets in Under 5 Seconds
• Scaling Twitter: Making Twitter 10000 Percent Faster

postmodern

Do your part to resist Government surveillance and take back your privacy:

• Browser Privacy: HTTPS Everywhere, AdBlock Plus + EasyList, Disconnect, NoScript (FireFox), NotScript (Chrome)
• VPNs: Private Internet Access (US), BTGuard (Canada), ItsHidden (Africa), Ipredator (Sweden), Faceless.me (Cyprus / Netherlands)
• Internet Anonymization: Tor, Tor Browser Bundle, I2P
• Disk Encryption: TrueCrypt (Windows / OSX / Linux), File Vault

nicoleslaw

Tiny Content Framework

About the project

This is a tiny content strategy framework focused on goals, messages, and branding. This is not a checklist. Use what you need and scrap the rest. Rewrite it or add to it. These topics should help you get to the bottom of things with clients and other people you work with.

Give me feedback on Twitter (@nicoleslaw) or by email (nicole@nicolefenton.com).

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