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2013 Year in Review

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2013 was an amazing roller coaster year at Lincoln Loop. This is a long post, so I'll skip the intro and dive right in. Company Accomplishments Of all the things we did and built, I'm most proud of what we …
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Introducing Salmon

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Over the years, I’ve used a lot of server monitoring systems. Big enterprisey ones like Zabbix, Zenoss, and Hyperic, smaller ones like munin and monit, stuff in the middle like Graphite, and hosted solutions like New Relic. Throughout the search, …
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Goodbye Trailmapping

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Trailmapping.com was a fun experiment with rapid development in Django I released almost 5 years ago now(!). I spoke about it at the first DjangoCon (also my first “real” talk in front of an audience). I didn’t give it much …
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Lincoln Loop Retreat 2013

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Over the last couple months we’ve been busy tying up loose ends and preparing for our first “official” company-wide retreat. Even though we’re a fully distributed team, we’re big believers in the power of meet-ups and face-time. They form bonds, …
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Django Settings Parity: You're Doing It Wrong

By Peter Baumgartner on

A common paradigm in Django is to create different settings files for different environments (local, production, staging, etc.). Everyone has their own opinion on how to set these up (see ours here), that’s not what this post is about. Instead, …
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2012 Year in Review

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2012 was another amazing year at Lincoln Loop. I’m incredibly proud of the work we accomplished and the growth and development we’ve made as a company. A few of the highlights: We launched our first product, Ginger. It is critical …
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Making the Distributed Workplace Work

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In our last installment, I introduced our distributed workplace and why we prefer it over a traditional office. Over the years, we’ve learned a lot about how to make a distributed workplace, well… work. The single most important we learned …
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Introducing BotBot

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Today we’re introducing a new member of the Lincoln Loop family, BotBot.me. At the moment, BotBot is beautiful hosted IRC logs (try #django or #go-nuts). We built it for people who love IRC and we want your advice to improve …