Andy Murray won Wimbledon. First British man in 77 years. I don’t even follow tennis and I got chills. Our designer streamed the last game at his desk and the whole team gathered around like it was the moon landing. 77 years is longer than most companies live. Longer than programming has existed, basically.
In my world: Dota 2 officially launched out of beta and my evenings are now spoken for. It’s free, which after reading about Valve’s economics all week, I understand is the most expensive kind of game.
Microsoft blinked, by the way. They reversed the Xbox One DRM stuff a few weeks back after E3. The internet won? Corporations do listen when preorders talk.
TIL: pagination is hard. Real pagination, with data that changes underneath you. We had users seeing duplicate items because OFFSET is a lie when rows get inserted mid-scroll. Cursor-based pagination is the way. Two days of my life for one blog-post-sized lesson.