[dmix]

I follow(ed) Segment’s GitHub branches and always felt they adopted the latest and best front end tooling. I usually let them being the testing ground at a real company in between the stuff they developed themselves.

This goes from using Metalsmith early for their single page web sites, some coding practices (mono vs micro), some CSS frameworks and design patterns and other library choices when there always seemed like a barrage of new choices (like css in JS ) and React.

Anyway I much appreciate their efforts in this area as inspiration and real world examples published on OSS sites. Even if it was simple stuff like their marketing websites.

They clearly had respectable and internally influential talent working in this area.

It’s been a while since I’ve explored their GitHub repos for fun but the I still respect the stuff I learned.

[alexjray]

Most of that is Ian Storm Taylor. This is what happens when software is treated as a first class citizen and the co founder(s) are technical. It's a specific class of companies like Stripe and Square. The business itself is treated as a software product, internal influences external.

[Toine]

Can you elaborate on "internal influences external" ? I don't get it.

[throwbacktictac]

I believe he/she means that the way you practice is the way you play.

If you put your best effort into the things that "do not matter" (e.g. hobby, open source work) then the discipline will show in the external displays of your work (products and services).

[topicseed]

That would explain why Ian Storm Taylor slowed down on slate, his text editor, over the last few months. He must have been very busy with this deal.

He is a wonderful software maker. All the best to him!

[fblp]

Ian Storm Taylor departed the company in ~2013 i think - but was all a technical team with strong opensource culture.