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YOLO-Driven Development Manifesto
YOLO-driven development - not for the faint of heart
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Managing difficult software engineers
Effectively managing difficult employees in a software engineering context hinges on three core principles: fostering trust by empowering autonomy, promoting growth through challenges and constructive feedback, and ensuring a comfortable work environment with streamlined processes and minimal disruptions.
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Be sceptical of your own work (2009)
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field. (Niels Bohr) If you unexpectedly find a problem solving itself almost effortlessly, and you can’t quite …
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New responsibilities
As part of the same process outlined in Matthias Clasen's "LibreOffice packages" email , my management chain has made the decision to stop a...
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How to run a miserable code review
Code reviews are a performance nobody paid for
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Writing about what you learn pushes you to understand topics better
Write about what you learn. It pushes you to understand topics better. Sometimes the gaps in our knowledge only become clear when explaining things to others.
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Nobody ever paid me for code
Because mauve databases have the most RAM
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Edsger Dijkstra’s One-Day Workweek
Within my particular subfield of theoretical computer science there’s perhaps no individual more celebrated than Edsger Dijkstra. His career spanned half-a-century, beginning with a young ... Read more
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Remote work requires communicating more, but less frequently
Async communication is like gzip compression for humans: more processing up front, but greater throughput with fewer packets.
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Do something, so we can change it
A habit for addressing two-way decisions.
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Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase
Westbrook spent 35 years in a codebase that allegedly powers some sort of medical software somewhere. During his tenure, he contributed hundreds of lines of code to his projects.
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Excuse me, is there a problem?
Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that problem. This explains why, so you can avoid their fate.
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Stopping at 90%
A common pattern is to stop short of the real finish line for your project. A little evangelism, documentation, and polish can go a long way.
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Reasons Not to Be a Manager (2019)
Yesterday we had a super fun meetup here at Intercom in Dublin. We split up into small discussion groups and talked about things related to managing teams and being a senior individual contributor (IC), and going back and forth throughout your career.
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Repeating yourself thrice doesn’t turn you into a 3x developer
Three is a magic number. This is the number of things we can keep in our minds without losing focus. So, logically, a three-tier software…
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One week of empathy training (2019)
I've spent a week cosplaying as a disabled user. And I hate it. A couple of months ago, I attended a private talk given by a disabled colleague of mine. "Everyone should believe disabled people's stories about accessibility problems," she said. "But, given that people don't, here's what I want you to do. Spend one…
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Epilogue of my time working at Twitter
Like seemingly everyone on this app I have plenty of opinions about Twitter > X and figure now is a good time to open up a bit about my…
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How to build toxic software teams
To build a toxic team, you must inject poison early and often
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At this company, we are family
As I shared at our last family meeting, current economic conditions have forced family leadership to make many difficult decisions. I myself have reduced my golf outings to every other week, and you, undoubtedly, noticed that your mother’s car is no longer the current model year. Unfortunately, even these deep cuts…
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Emotions: A Code Book
What I write about my own personal journey is intended as just that—my personal journey.
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The “three things” exercise for getting things out of talks (2011)
(More general advice on going to talks is here . As with all my webpages, feedback is more than welcome!)
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Important Coding Habits
The most important coding habits are those that enable us to enjoy this craft for years to come. Here are tips for programming without pain.
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Advice for Operating a Public-Facing API
I've been operating Pushover 's public-facing API for over a decade now and I thought I'd pass on some advice for those creating a new API.
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Journalists should be skeptical of all sources including scientists
A group of prominent scientists spread misinformation about COVID's origins. Mainstream journalists missed the story.
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Good code is like a love letter to the next developer who will maintain it
We often romanticize the notion of programming, presenting it as an abstract form of art, a science, or even a form of magic. The truth, however, is much mor...
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Spoil your secret sauce
Go on an adventure. Find a New Thing™. Bring it back. Share it, and demonstrate why the New Thing™ is worth sharing.