Hey all, just a quick post about di-tui, my new di.fm terminal UI player. I’ve been playing hours of music with this player over the past two weeks and have to say that I really love it and am proud of its ease of use and simplicity. Most people who know me know that I work almost exclusively in the terminal: tmux, mutt, slack-term, vim, and now di-tui and many more.

Shipping production software requires a lot of housekeeping; so much so that many developers mentally block out just how much time a day they spend endlessly shepherding their work through the release lifecycle. Does the pull request have merge conflicts? Are tests passing? Is the linter happy? Is some other automated check failing? Most of these failures require intervention; whether it’s a finicky spec failing in a test suite or something more serious like a merge conflict.

I finally felt compelled to write this after reading a little tidbit from a blog posted on Hacker News containing this perennial piece of technoFUD One of the downsides with JWTs is that banning users or adding/removing roles is a little harder if you need the action to be immediate. … Since the token is stored client side, there is no way to directly invalidate the token even if you mark the user as disabled in your database.

Do I have your attention? I’ll come clean — I don’t actually have very strong feelings about open office floor plans, but with so many people waxing hyperbolic about them, I felt that it was time someone weighed in with a contrarian opinion and matching hyperbole. DHH’s article above titled “The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea” reduces the open-office decision to the idea that open offices look good to managers signing leases.

This is the first in what I hope becomes a series of posts on how we’re slaying the monolith at Greenhouse. Over the course of the next year, Greenhouse Engineering is aiming to break down our monolithic Rails application into a more scalable and robust collection of services. This won’t happen quickly, but it will happen deliberately and with the clear goal of safely scaling Greenhouse Recruiting into the future.