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In 1985, I was a freshman at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. The college had a VAX 11/780 running 4.2BSD and a PDP-11/70 running v7 with some Berkeley and local code hacked in. It was my first exper…
Working in Cloud Native consulting , I’m often asked about who should do various bits of ‘the platform work ‘.
How distraction became our default way of working and what you can do to reclaim your focus
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
Which companies pay for oncall, and how much? Philosophies across the industry for paying for standby duty and numbers from 80 companies.
Embrace leisure and abhor the need to always be productive to actually become productive
Michał Tajchert — Chief Technology Officer. Mobile, platform & eCommerce engineering. Warsaw, PL.
Advanced Web Application Architecture allows you to spot what kind of code you're dealing with:
Being swamped — overwhelmed by stuff to do — is the default state of being within a startup. There's always more to do than time to do it, and the list keeps growing. Everyone else working at every other startup feels this too. Even if it doesn't look that way
Culture, technology, & travel once or twice a week. Click to read Back to Humanity, a Substack publication.
To make sense of all the contradictory info on Google & Facebook hiring freezes, we surveyed hundreds of engineers who are interviewing there right now.
On how software that survives first encounter with production tends to live longer than we think it should.
What happens when executives are allowed to secretly sell stock at a company that is doing poorly? And what can founders learn from this incident?
If no one has told you yet, as your career in tech progresses you will eventually become a custodian of culture. If you run a meetup or a team, if you lead an open source project, or if you organize an event people will be looking to you to know what is and isn’t okay in that space. You get this responsibility whether…
We asked one of our top 10 hacker contributors, Johan Carlsson, to share his novel approach to bug bounty hunting.
In the 1990’s, I had access to the early internet (before the web) and made use of a public forum ( Usenet ) where I could ask and respond to questions about programming the Macintosh computer. I’ve mentioned before how this caught the attention of engineering at Apple ( Tom Dowdy , in any event). Perhaps too, the…
I’ve enjoyed playing a game called Avalon recently. I won’t go too far into the rules, but it’s a hidden role game in the vein of Secret Hitler or Werewolf, where one team is “good”, trying to uncover who among them is “evil”, before the evil team wins.
I'm a full-time creator. With remote work becoming more common in tech, I get more messages from people asking: how can they do what I do?
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
Managing sets of small, dependent PRs enables faster review and increased developer velocity
Tenures are at an all-time low in the software industry.
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Jun 02, 2024 - I dive into best practices, targeting, creatives, landing pages, channels, and examples from the best developer-focused companies.
Disclaimer: this post represents my own views and it is not endorsed by my employer.
What do we actually know about burnout? What does the research say? Is burnout preventable? All the research, in one free, updated place.
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I’m leaving my role as the Product Lead for the Go Language at Google. I’m super proud of everything the Go team has accomplished in the last six years, and …
