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In software, when an engineer exits the team
My perspective when a team member gives their notice
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,748 posts.
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Why is everything so hard in a large organization?
Update : this post has comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28692026 You're a member of a team that is part of a large organiza...
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The Value of In-House Expertise
An alternate title for this post might be, "Twitter has a kernel team!?". At this point, I've heard that surprised exclamation enough that I've lost count of the number times that's been said to me (I'd guess that it's more than ten but less than a hundred). If we look at trendy companies that are within a couple…
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What does my engineering manager do all day?
I officially transitioned from a lead frontend engineer to a senior engineering manager this year and wanted to provide some insight into…
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How big tech runs tech projects and the curious absence of Scrum
A survey of how tech projects run across the industry highlights Scrum being absent from Big Tech. Why is this, and are there takeaways others should take note of?
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Ten Commandments of Salary Negotiation
Guest post by Niya Dragova, co-founder of Candor
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No, we won’t have a video call for that
Communications in distributed teams: a write-up of my talk from FrOSCon 2020, Cloud Edition.
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Quitting your dream job twice
Quitting is never easy. Building things can be. I'm leaving TTFM Labs to start a company.
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Things to do before and after you write code
The most effective engineers I’ve worked with were effective not just because of how they wrote code, but because of things they did when they were not writing code. Here’s my (growing)…
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What I Learnt Becoming a Tech Lead
No, you will not write as much code as you think.
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I Failed to Transform the Enterprise
how management power plays win out over measurable profit increases, risk mitigations and years of track record
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Developer, you may need a co-founder in marketing
Uku Täht is a co-founder of a simple web analytics tool Plausible. It’s bootstrapped, open-source, and currently making $360,000 in annual recurring revenue (ARR).
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Every engineer should do a stint in consulting
I will die on this hill.
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Ship / Show / Ask: A modern branching strategy
Ship/Show/Ask is a branching strategy that helps teams wait less and ship more, without losing out on feedback.
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How Many People Can Someone Lead?
How big of a team can someone lead well? What are the factors that might decrease or increase this size? Find out more in this article
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Ok, so you can’t decide
Even if you've checked your work, asked for all the help, and are moving gingerly, there will be decisions where you can't decide. You've considered and reconsi
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Has Agile Become Addiction to Instant Gratification?
“Agile” in software engineering has become the de-facto mode of operation for quite some time now. If what Bill Gates said is true, that…
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Operations is not Developer IT
My code doesn't compile. Why? The number of times in my career I have been asked a variation on "why doesn't my application work" is shocking. When you meet up with Operations people for drinks, you'll hear endless variations on it. Application teams attempting to assign ownership
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I completely ignored the front end development scene for 6 months. It was fine
I've learnt I don't need to keep up with the hectic pace of Front End development news.
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Lessons Learned from Two Years as a Data Scientist
I finally escaped from (grad) school in 2019, spent two months interning as an assistant trader at FTX, and have since spent the last two years working as a data scientist, with the bulk of that time at Microsoft and the last two months at Anthropic. Not gonna lie — my time as a data scientist has been pretty awesome…
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The goal of standards is to improve our future actions
A common failure mode is to consistently set your standards for yourself too high, and to always feel guilty for falling short. I diagnose why I think this is a major problem, and outline some of my tools for overcoming this
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The Seniority Roller Coaster and Down-Leveling in Tech
In tech, switching jobs almost always comes with either a financial or a title upside. However, it doesn’t always come with both. Switching for higher compensation can result in a “lower” title, like going from Senior Software Engineer to SWE 2 or VP Engineering to Senior Engineering Manager. This
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The art of not taking things personally
Why other people’s emotions might not be about you — and your emotions might not be about them
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Enterprise Software Projects Killed the Software Developer
This post was inspired by a comment on HackerNews that I am not able to find anymore. The gist of it was “While architecture is often over-engineered, code i...
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