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Etsy Engineering



"If you’ve ever been shopping online and encountered a message like “1 items added to cart” or even “1 item(s) added to cart,” you’ve been bitten by a pluralization bug. It might have been a little annoying, but you likely shrugged it off and moved on."

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A Fun Sorting Lexicographically Bug

Ran into a fun little bug today. We have an integration that’s been around since 2016 where we save their id values as a string because we can’t rely on them not throwing in letters. Looking at the db it seems like they were earlier on but have been only using numbers for a while. … Continued

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Sorted Tables for Faster Range-Scans



"Most developers will use an automatically incrementing column for the primary key with insertion-order sorting for the table's data by default. However, rows belonging together are stored in the database file very far away, resulting in many disk fetch operations. When instead e.g."

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Git Message Verbosity

I love me a long git commit message. I’m telling a story and by George you’re going to see it, read it, and love it. Well, I think you should, I think my future self should.

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Understanding WebViews



"WebViews allow you to display web content inside a native app, but they hide more tricks than just that. Find out what those tricks are! When it comes to accessing internet content, we typically use a browser like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, and Edge."

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How To Optimize Laravel for Performance



"Laravel is a popular open-source PHP framework that’s known for its robust security and simple yet sophisticated coding architecture. It’s a great choice for building cutting-edge web applications capable of driving revenue and propelling businesses forward."

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Software Engineering - The Soft Parts



"Today I'll share some of the software engineering "soft skills" I've learned from my first 10 years on Google Chrome, where I am a Senior Staff Engineering Manager. On my 10th anniversary, I wanted to reflect on some of lessons that have stayed with me."

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Introduction



"asdf is a tool version manager. All tool version definitions are contained within one file (.tool-versions) which you can check in to your project's Git repository to share with your team, ensuring everyone is using the exact same versions of tools."

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Kint - debugging helper for PHP developers



"Kint - debugging helper for PHP developers What am I looking at? At first glance Kint is just a pretty replacement for var_dump(), print_r() and debug_backtrace(). However, it's much, much more than that. You will eventually wonder how you developed without it."

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Service Container



"The Laravel service container is a powerful tool for managing class dependencies and performing dependency injection. Dependency injection is a fancy phrase that essentially means this: class dependencies are "injected" into the class via the constructor or, in some cases, "setter" methods."

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