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Experienced technologists from Technical.ly's five markets convened on Slack to discuss everything from professional development to mental health. Here's what they said about lessons learned.

Whats the big deal about key-value databases like FoundationDB and RocksDB?

The school's reintroduction of the SAT into admissions is a welcome development, but it doesn’t go far enough.

I have recently seen several discussions on Twitter where people have been surprised/annoyed by what the compilers do to their branchless code. Here are some random comments on what the compilers do (and why).

This is part one of the Crossover Project. Part two is here and part three is here. I sat in front of Mat, idly chatting about tech and cuisine. Before now, I had known him mostly for his cooking pictures on Twitter, the kind that made me envious of suburbanites and their 75,000 BTU woks. But now he was the test subject for my new project, to see if it was going to be fruitful or a waste of time.

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