I mean, that Smoke Detector thing was pretty notable… although to be fair, I was inside Google at the time :-)
Re:An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google
by jimbokun on Monday January 27, 2020 @01:51PM
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Interesting reading this now, the part about making open source contributions easier makes a pretty good pitch for Github.
Re:An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google
by the_mitsuhiko on Monday January 27, 2020 @12:51PM
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I'm really curious though where you end up now :)
I wrote about this when I first joined Google, having noticed the same prior to joining:
https://brad.livejournal.com/2409049.html
That was my big fear of joining Google, being sucked into the black hole.
(Ignore the later part of the post about the App Engine app that I couldn't keep running because App Engine kept breaking me all the time.)