MapleWalnut

Interesting that they did a major layoff on a US holiday (MLK Day).

Sentry provides a great hosted service. You can self host if you like, but it’s nicer to let them do it

The Sentry SDK is open source and easy to contribute to in my experience.

It'll be hard to position this against Sentry. Sentry's a joy to use and their performance product is so helpful in debugging performance issues

That’s true, but with ESPPs, you get a discount on the stock price, effectively guaranteeing a decent return that would be hard to beat.

Yes, but that wasn't available when they did this migration

I like that polar supports funding specific issues or pull requests. Seems like a nice way to help fund a project while also helping prioritize issues you care about.

There is a lounge with seating, you just need a ticket

It'd be great if there was an rss feed for your blog

Not the most accurate title. They’re still using Typescript for type checking, they’re just using JSDoc type annotations instead of Typescript syntax

Mypy is the most correct and flexible type checker I’ve found. Pyright is great for auto complete in VSCode though, so I use both.

The Google and Facebook options aren’t well supported.

I pay for Feedly even though I had access to a very generous free plan. Their product is reliable and I use it every day, so it only seems fair to pay.

One of the engineering leaders at my company was big on Retool and it was pushed out as a way for backend developers to write frontend code.

Now 6 months later that leader is gone, developers realized applications in Retool are harder to maintain because it’s just spaghetti code with no type safety or proper code review and teams are moving back to internal React applications.

You could build a much nicer user experience with react and make a maintainable codebase.

I think the promise of no-code making it easier for users to contribute is not reality.