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Finding the Perfect Tech Stack for Your Startup Through Experimentation
Standardizing a tech stack for a startup team is a critical and complex decision. Engineers come with unique backgrounds and preferences on how to build a product. You can’t try them all and see which one works best. Or can you? Ian Lotinksy, VP of Product Engineering and Design at Weld North Education, believes that […]
7 Practical Tips for Writing Clean Code
“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”—Martin Fowler Writing clean code is a common topic in software development. But what exactly does it mean and why do we care about it? To answer these questions, we spoke with Ali Spittel, Senior Developer Advocate at […]
This Startup Is Using Robotics to Solve Overlooked Problems
“The world rewards people who solve the problems that no one else is solving.” – Vaibhav Vohra, Gecko Robotics For years the industrials – like oil, gas, and mining – remained untouched by innovation. That’s quickly changing. Pittsburgh is at the epicenter of this change. Startup founders and engineers are asking how they can make […]
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Tagnet: A Digital Drawer to Store Your Assets
Organizing your digital assets should be easy. Between bookmark managers, to-do lists, note-taking apps, and GitHub repositories, there’s definitely no shortage of options. But for me, nothing seemed to click and actually get used. These...