> Flickr is somewhat unique in that it uses a code repository with no branches; everything is checked into head, and head is pushed to production several times a day. This works well for bug fixes that we want to go out immediately, but presents a problem when we’re working on a new feature that takes several months to complete. How do we solve that problem? With flags and flippers!
The Flickr team was really innovative and the industry as a whole learned a lot from them. Perhaps some of that wisdom has been lost on the next generation of developers and now it's being packaged and sold to them.
Huh, macOS includes a utility called `dot_clean`. It's just been sitting there, quietly, in `/usr/sbin` for decades waiting for me to discover.
I've been using macOS since it was OS X and thought I knew most of its nooks and crannies. Today I learned a new one.
When I was first introduced to Unix in the mid-90s, one of the things I did was to poke around all the bin dirs, see what was there, read most of the man pages. I'm not sure I ever bothered to do that on OS X. Maybe it's time.
https://www.recodingamerica.us
Interview with the author:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...
Recent opinion piece by the author:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/opinion/democrats-elon-mu...
(Those may be paywalled and I'm out of gift links.)
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