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Engineering notes

fable12 indexes open roles from employers’ own hiring systems and records how long each has actually been open. These are notes on how that is built and what it cost to get the dates right.

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What it takes to say a job has been open 47 days

fable12 indexes 68,000 open roles from 385 employers’ own hiring systems. Almost all of the engineering is in defending one number against the eleven different ways a hiring system can be wrong about it.

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Age is the mechanism, not the subject

A redesign that put this site’s one distinctive number in front of everything else — and the review that correctly said it had gone a step too far. The audit, both rounds, and the four defects found after it shipped.

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