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Cover artwork for the article “The Internet of Fun”.
The Internet of Fun
Yesterday, I accidentally built a chat app. Surprisingly, it wasn't the first time it happened.
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Amjad Masad
Founder & CEO
Amjad Masad is a Jordanian American entrepreneur and engineer. He is the founder and CEO of Replit, the world's leading online programming environment and community. Before Replit, Amjad worked at Facebook, overseeing the JavaScript infrastructure team and building some of the world's most popular open-source developer tools. Before that, he was a founding engineer at Codecademy, the world's leading online coding school.
Writing
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Don't Let Your Development Environment Rot
Most systems -- both natural and artificial -- decay, rot, and eventually die. Software is no different. A lot has been written about fighting "software rot" but there's another type of rot related to software that's not talked about much -- the development environment rot.
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Building Towards a Holistic Development Service
Software development is one of the first -- if not the first -- examples of what J. C. Licklider called the Man-Computer Symbiosis. A "cooperative interaction" between people and computers where the person is concerned in what may be classified as the creative aspect of the work such as setting the goals, formulating the hypothesis and evaluating the results while the computer does all the "routinizable work".
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Learning Devops & AWS on the Job: Building and Scaling a Service
Learning Devops & AWS on the Job: Building and Scaling a Service
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API Docs
[Update Oct 2022: We have retired our API, we are excited by our previous work but we do not have the resources to support this at the moment.]