Company News
Announcing React Server
Wish your site had blazing fast page loads and seamless transitions between pages? Read on.
Python at Redfin
We hosted PuPPy, the Puget Sound Programming in Python meetup group, in the Redfin Seattle office yesterday — here’s a link to the slides.
ES6 in Node v6
What are the performance implications of switching from Babel to V8 native? We did a test to find out.
Destructuring and Default Parameters in ES6
How default parameters and destructuring interact in ES6 to make gorgeous code, and why just checking MDN isn’t enough
American Cities Were Built for Cars. What Will Happen When They All Leave?
The self-driving car could change the shape of the American city profoundly.
Redfin at the White House
What happens when technologists, community organizers and policymakers get together to talk about data
Almost Famous
After Redfin’s layoff last week, the CEO of a startup down the street emailed to say “at least we’re not public!” Which made me wonder
URL Query Parameters and HTML Entities: The Case of the Missing Semicolon
What’s the difference between this HTML snippet: <a href=”http://www.google.com/search?q=html&foo=0″>foo=0</a> and this? <a href=”http://www.google.com/search?q=html©=0″>copy=0</a> Both of them look like simple Google searches (though they could have
A Very Tough Day
Today Redfin laid off roughly 20% of our employees. Unlike other startups, our industry’s recession started a year ago, when home prices first plunged. Since
"It's Only Going to Get Better for Me"
This is the first in a series of real-time, agent-off-the-record blog posts on what Redfin agents and market managers are seeing in different markets. We promise
"We Were The Cool Guys."
Watching the credit crisis destroy Wall Street this week, it was hard not to think of the mortgage episode of “This American Life,” which aired
“We Were The Cool Guys.”
Watching the credit crisis destroy Wall Street this week, it was hard not to think of the mortgage episode of “This American Life,” which aired
