conroy

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   by conroy 15y ago

   Me too, and I work at Twilio.
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   by conroy 15y ago

   Storing the queue locally is great for speed, but it sacrifices durability. When an app server crashes, all those queued tasks are lost in the ether.
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   by conroy 15y ago

   I switched both my blog [1] and our engineering blog [2] over to Jekyll and couldn't be happier. It's incredibly easy to deploy (we push our blog straight to S3) and working locally is a breeze. [1] http://kyleconroy.com [2] http://twili
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   by conroy 15y ago

   I've found the best use for Bootstrap is internal sites and tools. The public never sees these tools so they are usually stuck with terrible UI and UX. Bootstrap makes these tools so much easier to write.
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   by conroy 15y ago

   The coolest new feature? Bootstrap 2.0 is completely responsive. This is what it looks like on different screen sizes: http://areyouresponsive.com/twitter.github.com%2Fbootstrap%2...
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   by conroy 15y ago

   I've started following this rule for all of my personal projects. However, many of us find it difficult to apply this rule to the software we write on the job. Most of the projects we work on aren't for us. They are for customers with vastl