Medium’s CSS is actually pretty f***ing good – @fat tells a good story about medium’s evolution of how they write css. Oh, and while he was evolving it he created a new font. The Robo-Chemist – Researchers are now taking leaps towards building an robotic chemist. Using a combination of software, robotics, and lots of data teams […]
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Linux Performance Tools – If you’re one of those poor souls oncall and want to get a quick rundown of what tools you have available to you to troubleshoot different types of performance issues on Linux, take a look at Brendan Gregg’s talk from LinuxCon. 3D CGI With Ikea – Turns out Ikea furniture might be more […]
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By: Jerry Gagelman and Jem Young Hashing is a notoriously difficult problem, but the challenge doesn’t lie where you might think. We want to share a few insights gained from a recent excursion into this domain. First, a little background: by definition, a hash function takes as input a string of raw bytes, and returns an integer. The […]
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More from Chartbeat, angrier, newbier, and foodier than ever! Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus – Another Steve Yegge classic, this time literally politically polarizing. Yegge argues that software engineers fall along a conservative/liberal programming language spectrum, and that this is as fundamental to your character as your political leanings. Framer.js – One of our illustrious […]
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Last Thursday Chartbeat hosted the Frontend Innovators Meetup group at our office. The focus was Angular.js, and my co-workers and I had the good fortune of being presenters. Our goal was to share some of the experiences and insights we’ve gained over the past year working with Angular.js. From Closure To Angular Slides are available […]
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We’re back, after a month hiatus! Did you miss us? Yak Shaving – We’ve encountered a bug wherein you find another bug which is due to another bug which is due to another bug and before you know it, you’re knee deep trying to fix something that at first glance bears no relation to the […]
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Continuing our posts from the last time, we wanted to share a few more weekliest links from the reading lists of Chartbeat engineers: Optimizing a system for performance or scalability or reliability is something we all eventually have to face, but we are always warned about the ills of pre-mature optimization. In contrast, the Mature […]
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Chartbeat engineers are avid readers and we wanted to share some of the gems that we’ve come across recently (or not so recently). This being the engineering blog, these links are engineering-ish related. The Big Ball of Mud — at Chartbeat we write a lot of APIs and have repeatedly run up against the problem of staying […]
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On his blog, tomgermeau.com, Tom explains how you can quickly go from Illustrator to an interactive clickable prototype in the browser without the need for a developer, without writing HTML, in about 10 minutes.
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EDIT 2/20/14: Updated to reflect correct response time metric In part 1 of our post, one of the items we discussed was our issues with using DNS as a load balancing solution. To recap, at the end of our last post we were still setup with Dyn’s load balancing solution and our servers were receiving […]
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