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Re:Etsy is under pressure to start acting more like a conven... by MichaelGG on Thursday May 18, 2017 @12:57PM (#14368878)
Well that makes sense. I keep forgetting how articles incorrectly portray people, especially when it fits a narrative. I guess I was only too ready to believe that a company that bikes around leftovers would actually believe in craft-servers.
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Re:Etsy is under pressure to start acting more like a conven... by mintplant on Thursday May 18, 2017 @01:25PM (#14369152)
"Code as Craft" was the name of their engineering blog. I suspect the author found a post about Etsy running their own servers there and decided this juxtaposition fit the narrative they were building.
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Re:Etsy is under pressure to start acting more like a conven... by genericpseudo on Friday May 19, 2017 @07:07PM (#14379997)
It looks (from the outside) like Etsy's core eng team, early, had its culture come from all of the ex-Flickr people working there.

Flickr's other direct descendant, culturally, is Slack. Those are nerdy, charming, funny cultures. "Code as Craft" is a cute pun. Taking it entirely literally is a really big point-miss.

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