How Thoughtful Communication Makes Us Unreasonably Productive

How we use efficient and deliberate communication at Ashby to keep Slack notifications and meetings to a minimum, focus 36h out of a 40h week, and have fun along the way 😀.
How we use efficient and deliberate communication at Ashby to keep Slack notifications and meetings to a minimum, focus 36h out of a 40h week, and have fun along the way 😀.
Our application code runs in a single thread with Node.js. The thread can get blocked by requests with CPU-intensive computation and significantly slow our response times. We'll walk you through how we identify and eliminate these blocking requests.
Switching rich text libraries in a production app with many daily users isn't easy. We recently changed ours with minimal issues and are sharing our research and process with the hope that it helps you make a similar switch.
An automated reminder to deploy as an effective way to keep deploys small and safe.
Array.at provides better type safety than the standard index operator, and it works with Node 16!
How I use command line tools to inspect JSON and XML data that would be impossible to do by eye.
Use template literals to create flexible types that accurately check possible values at compile time and support autocomplete in common editors (like VSCode).
How to write similar Jest tests without copying and pasting code.
How to fix Typescript compiler errors from generic arrow functions in .tsx files.