We recently decided to the start a semi weekly written interview series of the humans behind programming, Loop Letters. What motivates these individuals? What sort of team culture are they working in? What hobbies are they good at? What hobbies …
With the launch of our book, High Performance Django, we’ve received a number of inquiries from people asking for advice, for which the answers are too specific to their application to give good general advice, and too short to sign …
Last week Vitaly and I migrated BotBot.me to new servers and also launched a redesign of the user account section. You can now support us by becoming a subscriber for $3/month and even log personal channels for $2/month. If you …
In the past month we worked to scale up botbot.me. Every few days the bot would get stuck in a deadlock situation that caused outage of the logging service. I had some time in front of me that I decided …
I'm really excited to (finally) announce that we are writing a book! We've been working with Django professionally for a long time (over 7 years now). During that time, we've learned a lot about how to use the framework to …
2013 was an amazing roller coaster year at Lincoln Loop. This is a long post, so I’ll skip the intro and dive right in.
Company Accomplishments
Of all the things we did and built, I’m most proud of what we …
Episode #5 of the /dev/loop podcast is live! Pete, Michael, Marco, and Yann talk about our emerging Salmon monitoring project, the growing world of JavaScript tools, and the challenge of web apps on mobile.
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Over the last couple months we’ve been busy tying up loose ends and preparing for our first “official” company-wide retreat. Even though we’re a fully distributed team, we’re big believers in the power of meet-ups and face-time. They form bonds, …
Episode #3 of the /dev/loop podcast is live! Pete, Brian, and Yann discuss a/b testing, PaaS (Heroku, GAE, etc.), Django 1.5’s User model, and Firenze.
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One perk Lincoln Loop and other companies with remote staff regularly cite is the lack of a commute. Nothing beats taking the Pajama Freeway to your home office. While reviewing my time entries for last year I started to wonder …
