A big part of migrating over from one framework to another is the in-between state. It’s never as simple as flipping a switch — and you might find yourself, like us, juggling two different systems in the same application.
At …
“Most people like to dunk on Edge, but I think it’s a pretty great browser,” my coworker Thomas told me. We were a few hours into attempting to fix a bug that only occurred in Microsoft Edge and I had …
This just in! A controversial new policy introduced this week has sparked chaos within Vena’s engineering ranks. A faction of dissenters, calling themselves “Team Spaces” has barricaded themselves up within the Glass Cube, the section of the office normally …
I am a steadfast believer in the future of women in tech. As a user experience designer here at Vena, I have seen first-hand the value of a truly diverse work setting, as well as the opportunities lost when diversity …
Author’s note: this post is a collaborative effort by Grady Johnson and Mustafa Haddara.
The following is a story of trials, tribulations, and triumphs, and stands as a testament to two young men’s ability to say “package” over a …
We’ve all been there. You’ve got a complex problem to solve and you have no idea where to start. It’s time to roll up your sleeves, refill your coffee, and turn off the dark theme in your IDE: you’re probably …
I recently had the opportunity to work remotely while traveling for six weeks with Hacker Paradise (I took the opportunity to hide from the Toronto winter like a coward and fled to beautiful sunny Montevideo, Uruguay). This was a huge …
Over here at Vena, we share a docker-compose.yml file to help new developers set up their environments smoothly. I’ve edited this file to mount the Mongo and MySQL data to an accessible location on the developer’s local machine:
mongo:
image: Recently, profiling showed me that most of the time in the microbenchmark I was running was spent generating the stream of random numbers using Random.nextGaussian. I didn’t need a high-quality Gaussian distribution—I just wanted some moderately realistic numbers—so, mostly …
