A Day in the Work-Life in 2020
By Jenny Fung on January 6th, 2021
2020 was awful. Who was accessible changed radically. We, and the people around us, by necessity took on different roles. Including at work.
This Month We Learned — November 2020
By James Santucci and Brigid Woolery on December 21st, 2020
This Month We Learned about people-first hiring and onboarding and using nix-shell for consistent development environments.
Managing Data Labeling for Machine Learning Projects
By Niki LaGrone on December 2nd, 2020
Responsible for the data labeling for a machine learning project? Here are some insights we’ve developed while managing data labeling for machine learning.
This Month We Learned — October 2020
By Alex Kaminsky, Terence Tuhinanshu and James Santucci on November 30th, 2020
This Month We Learned gives us an opportunity to share short stories about what we've learned and to highlight the ways we've grown and learned both in our jobs and outside of them. This month we learned about the React DevTools profiler, medium-term visits to different teams, and numpy tiles.
A Guide for Grantmakers: How to Evaluate Software Development Proposals
By Derek Dohler on November 9th, 2020
Grantmaking organizations are often asked to fund software development, but are unsure of how to evaluate the scope, budget, or potential impact of these types of projects. We created this list of the key questions to ask when evaluating a software development proposal.
Run-Time Type Checking in TypeScript with io-ts
By Alex Kaminsky on October 29th, 2020
In this post, we'll be using some advanced TypeScript libraries to help us stay type-safe even in the face of unknown inputs. In order to get the most from this post, I recommend having a basic understanding of TypeScript.