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Fired
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
Zach Holman
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Career & Management 21Tech Industry & Business 19Life, Learning & Writing 7Software Engineering 6Web & Frontend 4Systems & Performance 4
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The Depression Thing
the depression thing: a neat story about depression and mental health. By Zach Holman.
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UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right?
Programming with dates, times, and timezones is hard. But here's some help.
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Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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How to Deploy Software
Things Zach Holman said.
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Move Fast and Break Nothing
Things Zach Holman said.
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JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScript
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Don't Give Your Users Shit Work
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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How Github uses Github to build Github
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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OAuth Will Murder Your Children
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Scaling GitHub
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Firing People
Firing People: a talk about firing people, by Zach Holman.
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Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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The Cold Email
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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How GitHub Works: Be Asynchronous
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Abusing Emoji in iOS and Your Mac
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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More Git and GitHub Secrets
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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What They Don't Tell You About Public Speaking
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Keeping People
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Scaling GitHub's Employees
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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How GitHub No Longer Works
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Just Don't Hire 0x Engineers
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Swearing
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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The Product is the Byproduct
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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OS X Isn't for Developers
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Ruby Patterns from GitHub's Codebase
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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If Only I Knew This Shit in College
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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How GitHub Works: Hours are Bullshit
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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You’ll Always Miss Being in the Basement
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Facelette: On TechCrunch in Three Hours and $0
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.