What Does Living Life On Your Terms Mean, Anyway?
What Does Living Life On Your Terms Mean, Anyway? At five in the afternoon I’m happy for the faithfulness of my floor fan. The cottage is hot, mid-August summer hot, but at least it’s quiet. The Man...
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At five in the afternoon I’m happy for the faithfulness of my floor fan. The cottage is hot, mid-August summer hot, but at least it’s quiet. The Man has taken the boys, with our guests, off of the...
View Article"My Remote Developer Life — AMA" in Red Shift
A tour through the factory — Infinite Red I’ve chosen a Gene Wilder homage to theme this blog. May his charisma live on in those hearts he’s touched. The conception of this article was requested in the...
View ArticleWhy I Joined a Remote Team
Why I Joined a Remote Team It’s been three months since I started working remotely. Three months since I left my previous job as a Software Consultant and joined Litmus as a Software Engineer — fully...
View ArticleSummer internships at GitHub in San Francisco
Applications are now open for summer internships at GitHub. Interns will spend nine weeks from June to August working out of our headquarters in San Francisco with teams in engineering, product,...
View ArticleImproving collaboration with forks
If you’ve ever wanted to make minor changes before merging a pull request, now you can. When a user opens a pull request from a fork, they’ll be given a new option that allows the upstream repository...
View ArticleSnip.ninja Makes Sharing Film Clips a Snap
If you spend any time at all on social media, you’ve seen people posting a movie clip. Maybe you’ve done it yourself. And you probably realized: It’s an imperfect process. Most typically, the clip is a...
View ArticleStanding Around the Water Cooler… in a Virtual World
Standing Around the Water Cooler… in a Virtual World Chatting around the water cooler In a world where there are so many ways to connect, how do people really connect — human being to human being? I...
View ArticleHow to Curate Content: The Secret Sauce to Getting Noticed, Becoming an...
How great is the Internet! One of the most impactful, viral, influential services you can perform online is to read stuff and tell people what you like. It’s true! If you’re looking for a competitive...
View Article"5 ways to hack your workspace" in The Startup
5 ways to hack your workspace Work your space before your space works you This post originally appeared on Crew. Get more like it here. Few things affect our productivity as much as what we surround...
View ArticleDetermining your design principles
Our design team at ZapLabs often found it difficult to compare competing designs or make design tradeoffs. Well, we eventually realized why: Because we’d never determined our design principles. Here’s...
View ArticleTips for Finding Top Freelance Talent
Talented freelancers are everywhere these days, thanks to the ongoing rise of independent contractors. Even so, finding the right person to suit your specific project needs is often a hands-on process...
View ArticleBack to school: Get translations with Transifex
Transifex is now offering translation and localization software to students in the Student Developer Pack. Transifex is a cloud-based platform built to help you manage the translation and localization...
View Article"The Benefits of Changing Up Where You Work" in Spacehop
The Benefits of Changing Up Where You Work The environment you work in is the most significant factor in determining your productivity levels, your focus and even your motivation, and there are a...
View ArticleHow we put together a simple deal to spin off Know Your Company
It’s easy until you make it complicated. So don’t. Back in June of 2013, we launched Know Your Company. We built it in a few months with a small team of 3. A few months after launch it had generated a...
View ArticleThe Underappreciated Value of Incremental Design
The bottom line is, people get excited about changes and shiny new things, but they also hate changes — especially when they’re disruptive or different in ways that don’t seem to be a clear improvement...
View ArticleHands-on workshops and training sessions at Universe
GitHub Universe will kick off on Tuesday, September 13, with a fun-filled day of training organized into distinct tracks for GitHub power users and dev ops specialists. Reserve your spot now with the...
View Article"How We Onboard New Clients Remotely" in Hipo
Meeting clients for the first time can be daunting. You have expectations. You know they have expectations. The whole first meeting & proposal stage is riddled with things you can do wrong,...
View ArticleWatch out for “everyone” or “no one”
Years ago I was in a meeting when this one person broke into the conversation and declared “Don’t say everyone or no one. It doesn’t mean anything.” It’s obviously a great point — one that’s easy to...
View Article"8 Mac Menu Bar Apps That Will Blow Your Mind" in Product Hunt
8 Mac Menu Bar Apps That Will Blow Your Mind The only thing better than awesomely useful apps are awesomely useful apps that you can use right from your menu bar. Earlier this year, we wrote about 10...
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