The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,339 posts.
This is the first of four parts of the Indeed Tech Skills Explorer — an interactive look at which tech skills are in demand and for which tech jobs. For these reports, we searched for more than 500 tech skills in US postings for tech jobs on Indeed.com.
Collaboration with a large team is challenging, and even more so if it’s on a single codebase, like the Shopify monolith. Shopify changes 40 times a day. We follow a trunk-based development workflow and merge around 400 commits to master daily. There are three rules that govern how we deploy safely, but they were hard…
Pulse is a platform for team alignment. Engineered to help modern teams stay more connected and aligned by communicating more openly and asynchronously.
In Masters of Doom, a book about the game development company id Software and its influence on popular culture, David Kushner reflected on the...
Some may be bold leaders, but they create a dangerous corporate culture.
I did the Y Combinator interview. It's for entry to the Winter 2020 batch. I'm excited, but also a bit divided. Here are my notes.
This is another post in our Code Health series. A version of this post originally appeared in Google bathrooms worldwide as a Google Testin...
Iterations on revealing recurring patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior
After six and a half years, Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, is leaving Dropbox and heading into retirement. From the beginning, we knew Guido would be a great addition to our company. In fact, his contributions to Dropbox date back to day one. Our CEO Drew Houston’s very first lines of code for Dropbox were…
Productivity inspiration and tactical advice that's actually useful.
Over the course of my internship at the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), I worked on the safe systems programming languages (SSPL) team to promote safer languages for systems programming where runtime overhead is important, as outlined in this blog . My job was to port a security critical network processing…
The difference between a good CEO and a great one? Trusting your gut and confronting your fears head on.
And what you can do to start implementing it, whether you're an individual contributor or a team leader.
When I graduated from college back in 2014, I did so with two bachelor’s degrees, one in computer science and the other in design. I originally chose design because I wanted to learn the necessary design skills in order to improve the usability and appearance of my personal projects. While I originally joined the…
You can’t expect others to fix your problems. When you take responsibility for making the best of any situation, you have the power to make things better.
Anonymous career advice from people whose work we respect.
Many developers have been voicing their concerns about Agile being broken lately. Among them are prominent figures like Robert C. Martin and Kent Beck – two of the people who charted the original Agile Manifesto. Why is that?
Pulse is a platform for team alignment. Engineered to help modern teams stay more connected and aligned by communicating more openly and asynchronously.
We recently met with GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij to talk all about how they scaled a multi-billion dollar company with beyond 800 employees, fully remotely.
Why I've had to decide to not officially support Macs for Cogmind or my other software.
Hire by Google is no longer available. Hire by Google was sunset on September 1, 2020. We are deeply grateful to our customers who have joined and supported us along the way.
Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who could foster the community while accelerating the growth of our businesses, especially Teams, where we are starting to close many huge deals and becoming a hyper-growth…
Y Combinator CEO and Partner Michael Seibel [https://twitter.com/mwseibel] on how to cold email investors. Topics 00:00 [https://youtu.be/A3MmYbH1hbs?t=0s] – Intro 00:17 [https://youtu.be/A3MmYbH1hbs?t=17s] – Make it short, i.e. 60 seconds or less to read 00:58 [https://youtu.be/A3MmYbH1hbs?t=58s] – Interested in: the…
BLUF is a military communications acronym — it stands for “bottom line up front” — that’s designed to enforce speed and clarity in reports and emails.
Explore the history of DevOps and its impact on the tech industry from the perspective of a long-time software engineer and developer advocate.
