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Squarespace Engineering Blog
Company blog · engineering.squarespace.com/blogwebprogramming
Squarespace Engineering Blog is the company blog at engineering.squarespace.com, writing about web and programming. Since 2016, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “Implementing SSL/TLS for all Squarespace sites”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link the Squarespace Engineering Blog for its engineering essays, such as on technical debt and code review, and its RSS feed. Many comments are job listings or bare links.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
At Squarespace, our mission is to provide creative tools that help anyone bring their ideas to life. In this blog you'll learn about the ups and downs of our engineering endeavors.
Most-linked posts?
- Implementing SSL/TLS for all Squarespace sites3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-10-25
- Three Kinds of Good Tech Debt2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-03-17
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-03-01
- Building on Solid Ground: Getting Postgres Foundations Right with Pgbedrock2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-22
- Under the Hood: Ensuring Squarespace Site Reliability2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-06-01
- Performance Tuning PostgreSQL for SquareSpace's TLS Certificate Service2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-16
What Hacker News says?
Squarespace | Developers, Product Managers, SRE, Backend | NYC | Full-time, Onsite Squarespace helps people and businesses create beautiful online presences and build their brands. Our website builder and hosting platform allows anyone to create a website that looks professional for their startup, personal projects, or any small business. We've been growing like crazy the last few years, and are expanding in basical…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)”Submitted Three Kinds of Good Tech Debt as a story · 426 points
HN discussionSquarespace | Developers, Product Managers, SRE, Backend | NYC | Full-time, no remote unfortunately Squarespace helps people and businesses create beautiful online presences and build their brands. Our website builder and hosting platform allows anyone to create a website that looks professional for their startup, personal projects, or any small business. We've been growing like crazy the last few years, and are exp…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)”Submitted Squarespace Announces Local Development Server as a story · 113 points
HN discussionNice article. The code review articles are good too: https://engineering.squarespace.com/blog/2019/code-review-cu... https://engineering.squarespace.com/blog/2019/code-review-cu...
Comment linking /blog/2019/code-review-culture-part-2
on “Three Kinds of Good Tech Debt”Submitted Introducing the Squarespace Engineering Blog as a story · 91 points
HN discussionOh my - so, it's actually a lot more complicated than that. Let me run it through for you: - You have to build enough of a retry algorithm so that you start renewing well in advance of the expiration date. - You then have to build the mechanism for warning customers that there was an issue renewing for one of a variety of reasons - You then have to deal with situations where LE has issues, which happens fairly often…
Comment linking /blog/2016/implementing-ssl-tls-for-all-squarespace-sites
on “Announcing Free and Automated SSL Certs”Submitted Implementing SSL/TLS for all Squarespace sites as a story · 26 points
HN discussionYes it's there - I added it to feedly / reeder just before. Here's the direct link if you need it: http://engineering.squarespace.com/blog?format=rss
Comment linking /blog?format=rss
on “Introducing the Squarespace Engineering Blog”Submitted The Power of “Yes, If”: Iterating on Our RFC Process – Squarespace / Engineering as a story · 21 points
HN discussionhttp://engineering.squarespace.com/?format=rss
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on “Introducing the Squarespace Engineering Blog”Submitted Squarespace's Block Editor as a story · 17 points
HN discussionhttps://engineering.squarespace.com/
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on “Engineering Blogs of Companies”Submitted How do you make websites look good when you can’t know how they will look? as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThe vector of skills vs. vector of job properties thing could be a coherent idea. I'd argue it's not a good idea (and I have created joint-embedding models for multi-modal text and image nearest neighbor search systems). But it could be a coherent idea. In deep learning anyway, it's a very similar idea in spirit to something like word2vec. In word2vec you learn how to create some arbitrary vector of real numbers, le…
Comment linking /blog/2017/using-machine-learning-for-visual-searches
on “Bayesian Inference for Hiring Engineers”Submitted Implementing HTTP/2 for Squarespace Websites as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing SSL/TLS for All Squarespace Sites as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating from Postgres to CockroachDB as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Profile on Tanya Reilly, Principal Engineer, Squarespace as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three Kinds of Good Tech Debt as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering Director on management, engineering culture, promotion and burnout as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building on Solid Ground: Getting Postgres Foundations Right with Pgbedrock as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted WebGL Usage Patterns at Squarespace as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Blueprint for an Engineering Manager Forum as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance Tuning PostgreSQL for SquareSpace's TLS Certificate Service as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Under the Hood: Ensuring Squarespace Site Reliability as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Better Way to Upload Images as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a testing culture in mobile app development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ensuring Site Reliability (2017) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted DDoS Spooktacular: Tales from the (s)crypt as a story · 2 points
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