Why not just use Celery/RQ/Huey/TaskTiger?. Unfortunately, WakaTime has been using Celery for almost 10 years now. During that time I’ve experienced many critical bugs, some still open years after bei…
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Today GitHub announced it will archive Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022. Why?. Development on Atom has been slowing for a while now. We see…
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Happy New Year! Here's your WakaTime code stats for 2021. In 2021, more than 300k developers spent a combined 39 million hours programming, tracked with WakaTime text editor plugins. The average perso…
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If you’ve worked with Go before, you’ve probably seen this runtime error. panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference The current solution is checking thevar != nil before …
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For production web servers, most people assume scaling means needing faster (and more expensive) hardware. Before spending more money on servers, first make sure your web server process is using the m…
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WakaTime’s infra is split across DigitalOcean and AWS. We use DigitalOcean Droplets for compute resources, AWS S3 to store code stats, and DigitalOcean Spaces for backups. You can find more info on th…
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Redis is an in-memory database with very high write and read speed, and a limitation that data sets can’t be larger than available RAM. It’s like memcached but supports data structures instead of just…
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Happy New Year… 2020 is finally over! In 2020, more than 250k developers spent a combined 36 million hours programming, tracked with WakaTime text editor plugins. The average person spent 51 minutes p…
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Happy New Year! In 2019, over 200k developers spent a combined 25 million hours programming, tracked with WakaTime text editor plugins! Programming stats for 2019. The top languages were JavaScript (5…
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Let’s take a look back at 2018 from a WakaTime perspective: First, some WakaTime milestones and then a yearly overview of all WakaTime users’ programming metrics! 🎉 Growth & milestones. In 2018, WakaT…
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Alan Hamlett
Alan Hamlett
