Tech Band Camp @TechBandCamp

This one time at Band Camp, we made a site to list 2FA-enabled sites, and encouraged PR’s, but then rejected them, or removed them later, when their Alexa rank is too low. github.com/2factorauth/tw…

This one time at Band Camp we decided to build a JavaScript package manager and repo that is depended on by the majority of js-using developers/sites and as reliable as wet sand.

@seldo @Vjeux While I don’t doubt that many do, it is possible to have a website and not use npm

This one time at Band Camp, we patted ourselves on the back and had a circle jerk over how many times people downloaded our npm modules defining the English alphabet in an array, or the ansi code for yellow.

This one time at Band Camp, we decided the most basic of maths operations should be not one, but two NPM modules. reddit.com/r/programming/…

This one time at Band Camp, we decided not to leave our abusive partner, but instead to sign up for a class called ‘How to take a punch and keep smiling’.

This one time at Band Camp we decided to abandon our working, native desktop app because the web version "isn't that bad"

This one time at Band Camp we categorised everyone who knew what the <link> HTML tag does, as "the olds".

This one time at Band Camp, we figured that email clients should execute javascript, because who would ever abuse email to do malicious things?

This one time at Band Camp, we decided that what people really want is a javascript driven laser aimed at their retina. Because what could go wrong?

But, @reillyusa, how else is we make Unicorn venture valuation if we is not conflate containers with microservices?

Sponsor DockerCon Europe is cost $20k. Ivanka is ask if this is @Docker monetization strategy.

This one time at Band Camp, we took $10M in VC funding so we could have a bot auto-close GitHub issues we didn't have time to fix, rather than.. you know... hiring people to fix those issues.

This one time at Band Camp, we decided to make a breaking change with the justification “Users who see the error can fix the program.” github.com/PyMySQL/PyMySQ…

This one time at Band Camp, we released a backwards-incompatible minor version update, 5 days before Christmas. github.com/PyMySQL/PyMySQ…

I'd like to know, not so much "how" as "fucking why?"

This one at Band Camp, we found a major security issue in a mainline OS and decided to disclose it to the vendor through Twitter because why not?

This one time at Band Camp, we came to the conclusion that handling scheduled tasks via a system timer like cron "isn't part of application development" news.ycombinator.com/item?id=157388…

This one time at Band Camp, we wrote a "only run commands when prerequisite files have changed" build tool in nodejs, because we'd never heard of `make` medium.com/@devlucky/runn…

This one time at Band Camp, we bought into the Functions-as-a-Service hype, and then had to build a service to hit our FaaS every minute so it’s “always-on”. stayingalive.vessels.tech