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yossorion / what-i-wish-id-known-about-equity-before-joining-a-unicorn.md
Last active September 4, 2025 01:33
What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

@benjie
benjie / npm-wrong-tag.md
Created July 26, 2017 12:16
Resolve publishing npm package to wrong tag

If you accidentally publish a package to the wrong tag (e.g. @latest when you meant to tag it as @next) you can resolve as follows:

npm show PACKAGE_NAME versions # To view the versions you've published
npm dist-tags add PACKAGE_NAME@NEW_VERSION next # Tag the new package version as `@next`
npm dist-tags add PACKAGE_NAME@OLD_VERSION latest # Restore the correct `@latest` to be your previous release version
@bradwestfall
bradwestfall / S3-Static-Sites.md
Last active November 28, 2025 14:24
Use S3 and CloudFront to host Static Single Page Apps (SPAs) with HTTPs and www-redirects. Also covers deployments.

S3 Static Sites

⚠ This post is fairly old. I don't keep it up to date. Be sure to see comments where some people have posted updates

What this will cover

  • Host a static website at S3
  • Redirect www.website.com to website.com
  • Website can be an SPA (requiring all requests to return index.html)
  • Free AWS SSL certs
  • Deployment with CDN invalidation