Khan Academy Blogs
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By Kevin Barabash Khan Academy is available in 12 languages and is in the process of being translated into many more. We also have a lot of content (videos, articles, exercises, etc.) that needs to …
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By Craig Silverstein When I joined Khan Academy, my first project was to write a version of the weekly-snippet server I had worked with at Google. Years later, with the help of many intrepid Khan …
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By 2015 Interns We sent an email out to all of the 2015 interns in early November, shortly after they had left KA. The email said that we were hoping to write a blog post on our intern class, and …
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By Kevin Dangoor In his New Employee’s Primer post from July, Riley Shaw wrote a little about our Teams Initiatives Projects (TIP) style of thinking about our development work. Here’s a …
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By Craig Silverstein Bundling JavaScript files The traditional advice for web developers is to bundle the JavaScript files used by their webpages into one or (at most) a few "packages." Multiple tools …
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By Benjamin Pollack Khan Academy recently made the decision to migrate our team chat from HipChat to Slack. As a team, we’re incredibly heavy users of ChatOps, and with so many of KA’s employees …