At Etsy, our mission is to enable people to make a living making things. The engineers who make Etsy make our living making something we love: software. We think of our code as craft — hence the name of the blog. Here we’ll write about our craft and our collective experience building and running Etsy, the world’s most vibrant handmade marketplace.

Month of Bugs in Captchas

Ben Black said it much better than I could: “in summary, and not restricted to networking, if scale is central to your business, don’t outsource it.”

Things I Won't Work With

A hole-in-the-wall falafel place, a newstand that is Philly’s secret third comic book store, a favorite mural artist or the place that makes the best Manhattan

The Industrial Edges of NYC

GERMAN MUSIC BLOG and SHOP

The UK's #1 homemade synth, weird-shaped guitar and accordion source

steco reads stuff so I dont have to