John Polacek

I just open sourced a game I’ve been working on with my 6-year-old son Jack over Thanksgiving weekend.

Git aliases have been around for a long time, but in case you don’t know about them, they allow you to create shortcuts for just about any git command or sequence of commands that you can think of. Beyond just the convenience of less key presses, you can use to streamline your workflow by sequencing longer sets of commands that are hard to remember.

It has now been a full year since I left the agency and client services world to join a startup. Going from a large multinational company that was part of an even larger global holding corporation to a business with about 20 full time employees was a big change.

A common question people ask me is how I come up with open source project ideas. It is a pretty simple process...

Successful open source projects can generate a lot of traffic...

DynamoDB Engineer David Yanacek started things out by giving an overview of the types of tables and queries that exist in a typical social network app, and how they look in DynamoDB...