Tutorials rot
Started my first NFT contract tonight with Truffle, Ganache and OpenZeppelin. Halfway through, the npm page said Truffle was out of date, use Hardhat. Tutorials rot in a week.
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New dev rules
New dev rules. No production deploys after 3pm or any time on a Friday. Devs push to test, never master. Thirty days free bug fixing on anything we ship. The full list.
Twenty-eight seconds
Payment provider gives you 28 seconds to answer. Take 29 and it voids, then keeps resending until you reply. We weren't de-duplicating them. You can guess the rest. (The long version.)
Payments are a distributed system: the 28-second void
In 2014 we looked after a system that took payments from a payment provider and passed them on to the systems that held customer accounts. The rules we were playing by The provider wanted an answer to …
Deploy rules for a small agency
The dev policy we set at Siftware in September 2014, with the release cycle I'd described in a talk that February. A small team and a handful of long-running client projects. Deploying No deploys to …