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Damn straight.

One reason I withdrew a bit from the JavaScript Community® and chose to reinvest in Rails was that front-end frameworks and tooling became dominated by megacorps whose DevRel people convinced everyone that EVERY team should adopt solutions designed for Google or Facebook scale.



Off-the-shelf solutions are often a reliable, affordable option. But sometimes you just need a knowledgable dev team to build you exactly what you need. If you aren't sure what's right for you, we can help you figure that out _before_ your next product or event launch.

Yo, NYCC. Hit us up next year if you want a custom reservation system that works and scales to whatever traffic load you can throw at it. Our staff have built line and order management systems for Rihanna cosmetics launches which... I mean... you think comic book fans get nuts...



.@riipen the deluge of spam email and phone calls aren't going to win you our business. What will is actually paying people. Stop exploiting students (who are already going into massive debt to get an education) and actually pay them a fair wage. Then we can talk.


Hell yes.

if you want to find workers and increase your talent pool, go remote if you want to save the planet, go remote if you want to increase productivity, go remote if you want to be a control freak for no good reason, force everyone back into the office



Tis the season for new Swiftkick shirts. Huge thanks to fiverr.com/aludread for the amazing black metal mod of our logo.

SwiftkickWeb's tweet image. Tis the season for new Swiftkick shirts. Huge thanks to fiverr.com/aludread for the amazing black metal mod of our logo.

Thread how how Google broke Translate in a very real use case for blind users. Because data-driven design eschews the edge cases and those edge cases are so often disabled people.

This is what happens when folks with very good technical skills but no anti-bias training are given the power to detect our screen readers & use that knowledge to force us into divergent, segregated, subprime experiences. This is encoded paternalism. We deserve better.



Everyone needs to understand just why Google AMP is so evil.

I have tried to read the Google Digital Ad Antitrust doc multiple times and have had to stop every time because I am so livid. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…



Hey, it's Global Accessibility Awareness day! Do you have a website? Is it completely impossible for people with disabilities to use? Don't answer, it almost probably 100% definitely is! Time to fix it. globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org


Hey. We know shit's tight. But it's even tighter for our colleague Galen. Can you throw her $5 for her medical bills? She rules and could use the help. gofund.me/09aa1bbf Something something raise our taxes something single payer healthcare something living wage fistemoji.


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Programming isn't hard, it’s just extremely poorly explained and documented.


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The only way to properly hijack scrolling on your website. A thread 👇


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6 years ago today I raised my company's min wage to $70k. Fox News called me a socialist whose employees would be on bread lines. Since then our revenue tripled, we're a Harvard Business School case study & our employees had a 10x boom in homes bought. Always invest in people.


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To help finance our $70k min wage, I cut my CEO pay from $1.1M to $70k I don't miss anything about the millionaire lifestyle. Money buys happiness when you climb out of poverty. But going from well-off to very well-off won't make you happier. Doing what you believe is right will


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