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Making the Distributed Workplace Work
In our last installment, I introduced our distributed workplace and why we prefer it over a traditional office. Over the …
Introducing BotBot
Today we’re introducing a new member of the Lincoln Loop family, BotBot.me. At the moment, BotBot is beautiful hosted IRC …
Realtime Replay Logs with Redis
First off, realtime websites are hard. The current toolset is rudimentary. When I first started building Ginger, I thought I …
The Distributed Workplace
Here’s a map of our current offices at Lincoln Loop: That’s 10 people, 5 timezones, and 3 continents for those …
Referrer Blocking is Hard
One of my recent tasks in Ginger was to ensure that we weren’t leaking referrer URLs when you click on …
Backbone.js for Django Developers
Our new product Ginger relies heavily on Backbone.js for most of the client-side functionality (you can read about our full …
At Lincoln Loop, Everyone Sets Their Own Salary
As mentioned in my previous post, everyone at Lincoln Loop sets their own salary. It’s another radical divergance from the …
Open Book Finances
Maverick by Ricardo Semler was an eye-opening read for me a while back. It is a detailed account of his …
Ginger Tech Stack
For our latest product, Ginger, we wanted to marry the real-time functionality we needed with the traditional Django stack we …
Down with 9 to 5
Development is a creative endeavor. Often developers are creating something where there was once nothing. For most us, the thought …