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Frances Hesselbein's leadership story (2022)
A life by example
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I run a software book club
How I run a software book club
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"My boss says we don't need any engineering managers"
"I'm a VP Engineering at a 40-person startup. My CEO (former engineer) won't let me hire engineering managers. He says we can't afford such luxuries, all hands should write code. How do I make the case for managers?"
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All the remedial classes in one place
A look at the “serious” courses in college today. By Professor Doom I’ve seen plenty of articles bemoaning ridiculous col...
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Clever code is probably the worst code you could write (2023)
And clear, readable code is probably the hardest code to write
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Taking Risk
<p>I just spent a week talking with some exceptional students from three of the UK’s top universities; Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College....
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How Might We Learn?
On an immersive future of learning
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Lumina's legal threats and my about-face
I’m putting the post about Lumina Probiotics back up, now edited to avoid any possible threats of libel.
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Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work (2021)
Remote work expert David Tate wrote that when fearful CEOs talk about workplace culture, they’re really talking about workplace control. Their insecurities demand that the way work is done by emplo…
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Thread: Tech we can’t use or teach?
Random thoughts, articles and projects by a chronic overengineer.
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The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day
This was several years back. Keep in mind that early in my career, my father had told me that doing a good job often meant doing what needed to be done in spite of your boss. And by that he meant that you can either make your boss successful and happy or you can run every decision by your boss. In which case no one is…
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A useful productivity measure?
In my new role as VP of Engineering , there was one question I was dreading more than any other: “How are you measuring productivity?”
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Coding interviews are stupid (ish)
Musings on software, technology, and life by Darren Kopp
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MIT abandons requirement of DEI statements for hiring and promotions
DEI statements are affirmations made when you’re applying for college admission, university jobs, or even science-society grants, recounting to the authorities your philosophy of “diver…
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Rewriting the Technical Interview (2020)
Update, November 2023: here are the full term rewrite and language macros which formed the seed of this story. These files include OO notation as well as the basic Algol syntax shown here. There is also a sketch of an object-oriented language with classes and inheritance, implemented as a Clojure macro. I do not…
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What contributing to Open-source is, and what it isn't
Much code, very webdev. A blog by Samuel Faure about web development, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and more.
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Jon Pretty wins in court against sexual harassment claims by Scala community
I am a Scala developer and speaker who was cancelled three years ago. Yesterday I attended the High Court in London to hear an apology from several prominent members of the Scala community for making untrue claims about me on 27 April 2021. I sued them for libel, and they admitted fault and settled, paying me costs…
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Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way
If there’s two sources of truth, one is probably wrong. And yes, please repeat yourself.
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Most Tech Jobs Are Jokes and I Am Not Laughing
I've followed through on my commitment to interview in the tech industry without relying entirely on in-network referrals as I normally do (for a good reason - my network consists largely of the most competent people at mediocre companies!). It is dystopian out there. These are some anecdotes on my interviewing…
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From a lorry driver to Ruby on rails developer at 38
This post shares the story of Pedro David Garcia Lopez, a Ruby and Rails developer based in UK, who used to be a Lorry driver.
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I love programming but I hate the programming industry
On being a faulty cog in a machine when the machine itself is faulty
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My 25-year engineering career retrospective
Reflecting on my engineering career and what I could have done better.
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I keep a WTF notebook (2021)
There's a very specific reputation I want to have on a team: "Nat helps me solve my problems. Nat get things I care about done."
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The biggest source of waste is untapped skilled pragmatists
The biggest source of waste is not low performers or having too many employees.
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Stop Acting Like You're Famous
You aren’t famous. Anything you do or create will probably receive little to no attention, so stop optimizing for a non-existent audience and instead focus on what makes you enjoy the activity.