Meet Dinesh: Homebrew expert and Principal Software Engineer
It wasn’t too long though before I got really frustrated with the structured learning at University. I loved Engineering for the creativity and Uni just wasn’t giving me the space.
Moving fast and learning about customers
We recently had a squad shuffle to better focus on getting features to customers fast. So now my squad is smaller than I'm used to but the results have been surprising.
Learning Vue.js by Shipping a Feature
We introduced Vue.js to enable our customers to use a new feature. The framework helped us hit our deadline and write maintainable code!
Calculating When Coding Sparks Joy
Research shows that commit comments written on Mondays are more negative than other days of the week. Let's look at how this is calculated.
Hackdays at tails.com
Technology is constantly changing and we want to stay ahead of the game, but how do we do this in a safe, and more importantly fun way? Hello Hackday!
Creating a ready-to-evolve front end
As engineers, we strive to ship code fast. This comes with a cost we have to pay later. UI and front end are often overlooked in that process, but investing a bit of effort into creating a ready-to-evolve front end can save us time and effort when our applications change.
boolrule 0.2.1
We've just pushed a patch release for boolrule (i.e. `true` and `false`) in expressions.
Introducing boolrule
boolrule is an open source Boolean expression evaluation engine for Python. We originally built boo
2016 Tech Business of the Year
Tails.com is a winner of the Tech Business of the Year Award 2016 in the UK startups awards.
Monitoring Codeship CI pipelines with BitBar
Most of the tails.com tech stack is deployed through CI/CD pipelines powered by Codeship. Deploying code to production is as simple as merging into a specific branch, and this coupled with our propensity for shipping early and often means we often have a lot of builds in flight throughout the day.