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Shutdown
As of this post, Uptime Ventures, LLC is legally dissolved. If you live in the Denver area, you probably know me, the person who is penning this blog post. I’m Nicholas Young, the one-man engineering team behind the company facade. For the last three years, I’ve worked on refining development tools and now, the ecosystems I contributed to are stabilizing....
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Why We're Betting on Rust
Twenty-eighteen marks my seventeenth annual tour as a professional software engineer. I say “annual tour” because it feels like each year is uniquely challenging yet practiced, much in the same way a cycle race is a planned event, but still presents unexpected hurdles to be cleared....
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Creating Elegant Forms with UFS
Ask any frontend web developer: forms can be notoriously difficult. You have to keep up with filled and unfilled fields, which of them are valid, display errors when your users invariably attempt to enter invalid data, and depending on state, allow the form to be submitted or prevent submission entirely....