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(5 min read) Filed under "completely useless trivia", but not alert() seems to run in its own little world.

(2 min read) For the legacy code around Gaia, we have forms with more than one possible "submit" for an action. The most common case of this is preview and submit buttons we traditionally use in the forums.

(4 min read) Behind the scenes of the Bank Transaction Manager at Gaia, responsible for escrowing items between accounts on different MySQL shards.

(1 min read) One of the most challenging things I've had to do was create an object that could make an AJAX request, and then internalize the response.

(8 min read) Sagas before we really had the right word for it.