At Toptal everyone is a senior engineer and among the top 3% of freelancers in the world. They have developed a rigorous screening process consisting of 5 parts to identify the best.

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If you are just starting out with open source one of the most important things to include is good documentation. This starts with a solid README file.

When we shipped Changelog Nightly, we got lots of great feedback for it, but not everyone loved the design. Sure the design looks good, but it wasn’t scannable enough. It was too newspaper-like.

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I’m a huge fan of Sinon for test spies, stubs, fake timers, etc – but I continually learn new things about it. This week I learned about Sinon matchers.

Are you trying to master a new language or level up with one you already know? Koans are a great way to hone your skills through small exercises.

Want an easy to set up status page system for your web presence that’s also easy on the eyes?

Sam Potts let us know about a new HTML5 media player released by his team at Selz.

We all agree: naming things is hard. So hard, in fact, that it has become somewhat of a cliché amongst developers.

The Changelog’s roots go back to November 2009. It was a happy accident turned obsession. We started out with a few episodes of the podcast, and then we started the blog. It was a Tumblr blog back then. GitHub was young then too (just 2.5 years old). Our aim was to shine a spotlight on the fresh and new of open source, and that’s where things began for us. It was about more than code and tech, it was about the people behind it all, and how it all ticked.