jessepollak

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• by jessepollak on 6/18/2020, 5:58 PM with comments

• Coinbase Incident Post Mortem: April 29 and May 9, 2020

  by jessepollak on 5/14/2020, 6:53 PM with 0 comments

• Coinbase Incident Post Mortem: June 25–26, 2019

  by jessepollak on 7/28/2019, 7:25 PM with 28 comments

• What Are Coinbase's Engineering Principles?

  by jessepollak on 7/25/2019, 11:24 PM with 0 comments

• On becoming a senior technical leader

  by jessepollak on 4/4/2019, 6:21 PM with 0 comments

• by jessepollak on 4/4/2019, 5:26 AM with comments

• Show HN: Calendarculator – A clt to count the hours your team spends in meetings

  by jessepollak on 5/6/2018, 7:32 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What steps should we take before open sourcing our business?

  by jessepollak on 12/1/2016, 6:28 PM with 1 comments

• Never spend more than 37% – the golden rule of security spending

  by jessepollak on 11/30/2016, 4:18 AM with 0 comments

• The best time to integrate two-factor authentication

  by jessepollak on 11/2/2016, 6:13 PM with 0 comments

• How to 2FA Everything (Part 2)

  by jessepollak on 10/28/2016, 5:36 PM with 0 comments

• What is DDOS and why was Twitter down all day?

  by jessepollak on 10/22/2016, 1:16 AM with 0 comments

• How to protect your account when SMS is the only 2FA option

  by jessepollak on 10/21/2016, 7:45 PM with 0 comments

• How to 2FA Everything, Part 1

  by jessepollak on 10/18/2016, 7:00 PM with 0 comments

• Cooking for Oakland: How this tech startup gives back

  by jessepollak on 5/4/2016, 9:17 PM with 0 comments

• by jessepollak on 4/6/2016, 6:49 PM with comments

• by jessepollak on 4/6/2016, 5:02 PM with comments

• Don't force people to understand how the Internet works

  by jessepollak on 2/26/2016, 7:43 PM with 30 comments

• Why I Quit Ordering from Uber-For-Food Startups

  by jessepollak on 11/6/2015, 4:44 PM with 3 comments

• Startup open-sources its diversity policies so others can copy them and iterate

  by jessepollak on 10/10/2015, 8:41 PM with 0 comments

• by jessepollak on 10/8/2015, 4:59 PM with comments

• Clef Cooks 100 Dinners

  by jessepollak on 8/21/2015, 12:03 AM with 0 comments

• A practical use for NamedTuples

  by jessepollak on 8/18/2015, 9:58 PM with 0 comments

• You can't insure your relationships

  by jessepollak on 7/23/2015, 5:38 PM with 0 comments

• Building a better developer experience with React

  by jessepollak on 7/16/2015, 5:32 PM with 0 comments

• Imagine a time-interactive movie

  by jessepollak on 7/7/2015, 11:48 PM with 0 comments

• Dynamic tooltip text with CSS only

  by jessepollak on 7/7/2015, 6:07 PM with 0 comments

• Be better today than yesterday

  by jessepollak on 6/18/2015, 12:08 AM with 0 comments

• Lesson #1: Use Ordered Lists

  by jessepollak on 6/12/2015, 6:40 PM with 0 comments

• PCG, a Family of Better Random Number Generators

  by jessepollak on 2/13/2015, 6:11 PM with 0 comments

• The Handstand Theory

  by jessepollak on 11/21/2014, 11:32 PM with 0 comments

• Everything's amazing and nobody's happy (part 1)

  by jessepollak on 9/10/2014, 3:20 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Card – An interactive CSS3 credit card form

  by jessepollak on 6/4/2014, 7:00 PM with 112 comments

• The question isn't "which is better?" as much as "how do I survive?"

  by jessepollak on 4/11/2014, 6:45 PM with 0 comments

• Better voice commands using head-tracking and proximity sensing [video]

  by jessepollak on 4/4/2014, 4:04 AM with 2 comments

• Tech startup scene starting to flourish in Oakland

  by jessepollak on 3/30/2014, 7:30 PM with 60 comments

• Slate – A modern IRC client built with Node.js

  by jessepollak on 3/18/2014, 5:49 PM with 0 comments

• by jessepollak on 1/28/2014, 12:19 AM with comments

• by jessepollak on 1/27/2014, 2:54 PM with comments

• by jessepollak on 12/28/2013, 1:02 AM with comments

• Why is the zip function different in Ruby, Python and Javascript?

  by jessepollak on 11/25/2013, 8:52 PM with 0 comments

• The smartest investment Southwest Airlines never made

  by jessepollak on 11/8/2013, 5:51 PM with 0 comments

• If you got rejected from YC, your life is over

  by jessepollak on 11/5/2013, 4:20 PM with 37 comments

• A Person Paper on Purity in Language

  by jessepollak on 11/4/2013, 8:17 PM with 0 comments

• Use Amazon Smile without remembering

  by jessepollak on 11/4/2013, 4:19 PM with 0 comments

• WordPress and Digital Ocean: A Great Combination

  by jessepollak on 10/25/2013, 3:19 PM with 0 comments

• Make your life easier with better error messages

  by jessepollak on 10/22/2013, 4:02 PM with 0 comments

• A frustrating design inconsistency in iTunes

  by jessepollak on 10/18/2013, 4:34 PM with 0 comments

• You don't understand why the 5C is brilliant (yet)

  by jessepollak on 10/17/2013, 8:21 PM with comments

• Make bad data visualizations

  by jessepollak on 10/15/2013, 3:42 PM with 0 comments

• IE seems right, Chrome seems wrong

  by jessepollak on 10/10/2013, 5:01 PM with 63 comments

• A handcrafter's take on Google Web Design

  by jessepollak on 10/2/2013, 6:00 PM with 0 comments

• One weird trick to furnish your new home for free

  by jessepollak on 9/30/2013, 6:29 PM with 2 comments

• The Petition Against Passwords

  by jessepollak on 7/24/2013, 6:08 PM with 0 comments

• Password1 may be the most used password in Congress

  by jessepollak on 7/18/2013, 10:52 PM with 0 comments

• by jessepollak on 7/18/2013, 10:52 PM with comments

• Anonymous posts usernames and passwords of US Congress staffers

  by jessepollak on 7/18/2013, 5:50 PM with 70 comments

• Clef launches, offering a replacement to passwords on the Web

  by jessepollak on 6/26/2013, 8:45 PM with 0 comments

• Barsy — fully functional animated barcodes

  by jessepollak on 6/13/2013, 8:02 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: How do users log in to your site?

  by jessepollak on 6/5/2013, 5:15 AM with 0 comments

• Melon: a headband and mobile app to measure your focus

  by jessepollak on 5/14/2013, 4:14 PM with 0 comments

• Easily open websites from the terminal

  by jessepollak on 5/4/2013, 2:32 PM with 1 comments

• Finally, some competition for Instagram?

  by jessepollak on 1/19/2013, 4:33 PM with 0 comments

• Please setup 2-factor authentication on your Facebook account

  by jessepollak on 12/21/2012, 10:18 PM with 0 comments

• Don't email me my password

  by jessepollak on 12/18/2012, 9:29 PM with 0 comments

• Escaping flat land in information design

  by jessepollak on 11/27/2012, 1:40 AM with 0 comments

• Replicating the Pay With Stripe button

  by jessepollak on 11/20/2012, 12:46 AM with 0 comments

• Bad UX elements that are commonly used in iOS apps

  by jessepollak on 11/14/2012, 8:09 AM with 0 comments

• Let's secure security defaults together

  by jessepollak on 11/14/2012, 7:06 AM with 3 comments

• Awful (but cool) multi line string hack in Node

  by jessepollak on 11/13/2012, 8:10 AM with 0 comments

• Why Obama's reelection is good for young startupers

  by jessepollak on 11/9/2012, 8:56 PM with 3 comments

• Show HN: GitBattle – Battle two Github accounts

  by jessepollak on 11/6/2012, 12:32 AM with 44 comments

• The bicycle, simplified (without a chain).

  by jessepollak on 10/10/2012, 8:07 AM with 10 comments

• Here's what Zuckerburg should really do

  by jessepollak on 8/17/2012, 3:51 PM with 0 comments

• Facebook Q2 Stats: 955M Monthlies, $1.18 billion revenues

  by jessepollak on 7/26/2012, 8:30 PM with 0 comments

• Airbnb nabs Hospitality Club as a partner

  by jessepollak on 7/26/2012, 1:28 AM with 1 comments

• Exec: pay someone else to volunteer for charity

  by jessepollak on 7/25/2012, 3:41 PM with 0 comments

• A developers framework for (beginner) UX design

  by jessepollak on 7/17/2012, 9:12 PM with 1 comments

• Display: feline;

  by jessepollak on 7/9/2012, 7:16 PM with 0 comments

• Put down the keyboard and step away from the computer

  by jessepollak on 7/9/2012, 4:25 AM with 0 comments

• "Don't f***ing trim the copy"

  by jessepollak on 7/6/2012, 2:55 AM with 61 comments

• Snowstorms and startups

  by jessepollak on 7/2/2012, 3:09 AM with 0 comments

• Choosing the right technologies for a hackathon

  by jessepollak on 6/26/2012, 3:54 AM with 0 comments

• Do respond to every email

  by jessepollak on 6/22/2012, 3:49 AM with 1 comments

• One self is not enough

  by jessepollak on 6/21/2012, 3:40 AM with 27 comments

• I'm not special and you (probably) aren't either

  by jessepollak on 6/20/2012, 1:54 AM with 0 comments

• A $1 billion idea...that I know I'm not ready for

  by jessepollak on 6/19/2012, 3:04 AM with 143 comments

• How I made $1000 exploiting a broken market (2008)

  by jessepollak on 6/15/2012, 4:16 AM with 1 comments

• To hack or not to hack

  by jessepollak on 6/12/2012, 4:10 AM with 0 comments

• That Todo List App Won't Help You Do

  by jessepollak on 6/8/2012, 12:54 AM with 0 comments

• How I've Learned to Blog Every Day

  by jessepollak on 5/28/2012, 10:47 PM with 0 comments

• Like baseball? Get an email any day your team is on MLB.tv for free

  by jessepollak on 4/27/2012, 7:03 AM with 0 comments

• A problem with college computer science

  by jessepollak on 4/12/2012, 4:06 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: APIs for student hackathon

  by jessepollak on 3/26/2012, 3:25 PM with 1 comments

• Risk Nothing, Find Romance

  by jessepollak on 2/14/2012, 5:10 PM with 0 comments

• Jefe, the featherweight alternative to Foreman

  by jessepollak on 1/14/2012, 3:21 PM with 0 comments