Nathan LeClaire

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Nathan LeClaire on software engineering, distributed systems, AI, and business. The article feed last published in July 2025.

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10 Docker Tips and Tricks That Will Make You Sing A Whale Song of Joy #Docker #DevOps #Container
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Jul 12, 2014
RethinkDB is Quietly Changing the Way We Think About Data #Database #Tech #SoftwareEngineering
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Jul 1, 2014
Original Content Vultures are Evil, and What You Can Do To Protect Yourself #Content #Copyright #IntellectualProperty
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Jun 28, 2014
Back from the Dead #SoftwareEngineering #DistributedSystems #AI
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Jun 26, 2014
Do We Need a Community for Vagrantfiles? #DevOps #Community #Software
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May 2, 2014
A Surprising Feature of Golang that Colored Me Impressed #Golang #Programming #SoftwareEngineering
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Apr 27, 2014
5 AngularJS Antipatterns & Pitfalls #AngularJS #WebDev #SoftwareEngineering
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Apr 19, 2014
Unit Testing Services in AngularJS for Fun and for Profit #SoftwareEngineering #AngularJS #Testing
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Apr 12, 2014
Implementing a Concurrent Floodfill with Golang #Golang #Programming #Algorithms
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Apr 5, 2014
Fixing Cygwin's SSL issues with git clone c_rehash bug #Software #Git #OpenSource
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Mar 24, 2014
What is this Docker thing that everyone is so hyped about? #Docker #DevOps #Containerization
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Mar 22, 2014
AngularJS isn't MVC, it's SDC #WebDev #JavaScript #Frameworks
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Mar 15, 2014
Double Your Talent Acquisition: Five Do's and Don'ts For Technical Recruiters #Recruiting #Tech #Hiring
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Mar 8, 2014
Build a Linked List For Each Layer in a Binary Tree #DataStructures #Algorithms #ComputerScience
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Mar 1, 2014
How to Wait for All Goroutines to Finish Executing Before Continuing, Part Two: Fixing My Oops #GoLang #Concurrency #Programming
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Feb 21, 2014
How to Wait for All Goroutines to Finish Executing Before Continuing #GoLang #Concurrency #Programming
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Feb 15, 2014
5 Reasons We Won Startup Weekend #Startup #Entrepreneurship #Business
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Feb 10, 2014
The Number One Dev Killer #SoftwareEngineering #DevLife #Productivity
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Feb 8, 2014
Banging Your Head Against an AngularJS Issue? Try This #SoftwareEngineering #WebDevelopment #AngularJS
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Jan 31, 2014
Speed Up Your Workflow By Running PHPUnit Tests Inside of Vim #PHP #Vim #DeveloperTools
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Jan 20, 2014
I Love Hackathons, Long Live Hackathons. I Hate Hackathons, Hackathons Must Die. #Hackathons #SoftwareEngineering #Community
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Jan 18, 2014
Dragging and Dropping Images From One Browser Tab to Another In AngularJS #AngularJS #JavaScript #WebDev
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Jan 11, 2014
4 Smooth AngularJS Application Tips #WebDev #JavaScript #AngularJS
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Jan 4, 2014
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Sails.js, Realtime JavaScript MVC Framework #JavaScript #WebDev #OpenSource
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Dec 28, 2013
Sending Email From Gmail Using Golang #Golang #Programming #Email
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Dec 17, 2013
How to Unit Test Controllers In AngularJS Without Setting Your Hair On Fire #AngularJS #JavaScript #Testing
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Dec 13, 2013
Don't Fear Directives In AngularJS #AngularJS #JavaScript #WebDev
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Dec 7, 2013
Fear and Loathing With Golang and AngularJS #Golang #JavaScript #WebDev
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Nov 30, 2013
How I Automated "Finding Almost Anyone's Email Address" #Automation #Data #Privacy
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Nov 23, 2013
The (JavaScript) Question I Bombed In An Interview With a Y Combinator Startup #JavaScript #Interview #Tech
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Nov 16, 2013
Want to Work With Databases In Golang? Let's Try Some gorp. #Golang #Databases #Programming
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Nov 4, 2013
5 Cool Unix Hacks For Fun and Productivity #Unix #Hacks #Productivity
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Oct 27, 2013
Three Elements That Sum To Zero #SoftwareEngineering #DistributedSystems #AI
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Oct 22, 2013
Commit Every Day, Blog Every Week #SoftwareEngineering #Productivity #DeveloperLife
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Oct 16, 2013
Learn Node.js The Troll Way #NodeJs #JavaScript #Programming
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Feb 6, 2013