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  • Functional Swift Conference 2017 — Brooklyn

    On April 15th Kickstarter hosted the fourth ever Functional Swift Conference, which is the third time we’ve hosted it at our office! It’s…
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    Brandon Williams
    Apr 28
    Why you should co-locate your Xcode tests

    Why you should co-locate your Xcode tests

    The default structure for Xcode projects has a directory to hold implementation files and another directory to hold test files. There is no…
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    Brandon Williams
    Mar 23
    Kickstarter ❤ Kotlin

    Kickstarter ❤ Kotlin

    An exploration of our first three Kotlin classes in our Android app and how they were inspired by Swift.
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    Lisa Luo
    Mar 17

    Always Be Learning

    One of our core values at Kickstarter is to “always be learning.” In this post, we share our experience studying R in a small group.
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    Jeremy Salfen
    Mar 2
    The value of reliable developer tooling

    The value of reliable developer tooling

    Kickstarter recently rewrote the scripts we use to manage local development environments with a focus on improving their reliability. I…
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    Aaron Suggs
    Jan 3

    Leveraging Functional Programming & AWS Lambda to Drive ChatOps

    In Operations Engineering at Kickstarter, we aim to ensure the health and sustained development of our website. A large part of that is…
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    Logan McDonald
    Dec 14, 2016
    Open sourcing our Android and iOS apps!

    Open sourcing our Android and iOS apps!

    Today the Kickstarter engineering team is open sourcing our Android and iOS apps, and we’re excited about a future of working in the open.
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    Brandon Williams
    Dec 14, 2016
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