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How to Ventilate Your House

How much does a San Francisco Chronicle subscription cost?

Sour Punch Strawberry changed their formula

Get Urgent Care from One Medical

You Can Build a Skyscraper Anywhere in Davis Right Now

Ten years of experience, still failing phone screens

Different Realms, Different TLD’s

Fast, Parallel Database Tests

Where are Datadog’s US1 and US3 data centers located?

John Elberling is Probably Cheating On His Taxes

Cheap ideas for slowing down speeding cars

Preferred Stock and Common Stock Aren’t The Same

How to Force a Recall Election for the SF School Board

Decline the 15 Minute Post-Vaccination Waiting Period

How to Get a Human Operator on the California EDD Paid Family Leave line

Let employees sell their equity

Building a better home network

To Predict If You’ll Like a Beer, Look at the Hops

If someone asks if you have any questions, ask a question

Using a Bernzomatic TS8000 Kitchen Torch to Sear Meat

Phone Number for SFMTA Temporary Sign Office

Using an AWS Aurora Postgres Database as a Source for Database Manager Service

Going Solo, Successfully

Improving Bike+Bus Routes through Belmont Village

Why is Caltrain spending $2 billion on electrification & closing SF on the weekends?

Proposed SSF East Side Station Exit Prioritizes Cars, Not Caltrain Passengers

Research on railway suicides and steps Caltrain could take

Bike and pedestrian improvements east of the South San Francisco Caltrain station

AWS’s response to ALB internal validation failures

Amazon’s ALB’s do not validate TLS certificates from internal services

Otto LLC Assignment for Benefit of Creditors (bankruptcy)

Opportunity for more affordable housing in Belmont

Housing by the numbers

Profile Anything in Any Language in Under a Minute

Where is everyone going to live?

How to write Go middleware

Historically Significant Laundromats

You Shouldn’t Use Faker (or other test randomization libraries)

Proxying to a subcommand with Go

Running Bazel tests on Travis CI

Make your Go Binaries Homebrew Installable

CircleCI trusts 8 analytics companies with your source code and API tokens

Let’s talk about Javascript string encoding

Things to Use Instead of JWT

Pragmatic Web Development in Go

We Can’t Keep Ignoring the Bay’s Housing Politics

Why Leap Seconds are Tricky and How to Deal With Them

Ethical Considerations for Software Engineers

Tradeoffs in Software Provisioning Tools

An API Client that’s Faster than the API

Election Guide (Part 2) – CA Ballot Propositions, State Senate, more

San Francisco Voting Guide – Propositions and Supervisors

Dumb Tricks to Save Database Space

More Comment-Preserving Configuration Parsers

Real Life Go Benchmarking

Cleaning up Parallel Tests in Go 1.7

Buying stocks without a time limit

Six Years of Hacker News Comments about Twilio

A Two Month Debugging Story

The Frustration and Loneliness of Server-Side Javascript Development

Go Concurrency for Javascript Developers

The TSA Randomizer iPad App Cost $1.4 Million

YOUR ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED: STOCK AWARD NOTICE (Ref: LSUK/2031/8161/05)

Encoding and Decoding JSON, with Go’s net/http package

How to push to multiple Github accounts from the same machine

Just Return One Error

Safely Moving a Large Shrinkwrapped Dependency

Everything you need to know about state machines

Weird Tricks to Write Faster, More Correct Database Queries

Maybe Automatically Updating Dependencies Isn’t a Great Idea

Avoid Priming Interview Candidates

Don’t Use Sails (or Waterline)

Stepping Up Your Pull Request Game

Logging Database Queries in CircleCI

Fixing Engineering’s Loyalty and Longevity Problem

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