The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 357 posts.
First of a two-part series on the best strategies for hiring humans in the 21st century. Fueled by both personal experience and the experience of countless mentors (and recruiters), this gigantic post is bursting at the seams with knowledge. Though specifically written by a CTO-type, the strategies are useful for…
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Dear new developer, One of the most shocking things I learned when I started working in a professional capacity is that there are no adults in the room. That is not to denigrate everyone at your co…
Amazon’s “two-pizza teams” are well-known; they’ve been written about in Fast Company and the WSJ. But almost everyone misses the point. They aren’t about team size—they’re about autonomy and accountability.
Discussion on Hacker News This article and its topic were the subject of fairly detailed discussion on this thread here on Hacker News. Perusing through the comments should be well worth your time,…
I can’t keep track of the number of articles I’ve read about hiring in the past few years. Inevitably, they all follow the exact same format. First, they claim that hiring is broken. Ne…
When you’re already drained and depleted, it’s tough to figure out how to tackle burnout. Here are six science-backed strategies to bounce back.
Thank you, Chris. Chris Beard has been Mozilla Corporation’s CEO for 5 and a half years. Chris has announced 2019 will be his last year in this role. I w
I rely on Google Calendar to tell me where I am supposed to be, when and with whom. When the service collapsed for an afternoon last month, it felt like a teachable moment. For a few seconds, I pan…
How working at Stripe changed my outlook on optimism, ambition, and recruiting.
I sat next to a senior software engineer for a year. Here’s what I learnt.
(Alternate Title: How to Shut Up the Ubuntu MOTD, the Long Way) Sometimes, the simplest questions take you on exciting journies. This was, in...
Software Architecture is the important aspects of a software system's internal design, usually its major components and aspects that are hard to change.
(Please be sure to read the addendum at the end of this post.) A week ago last Friday, I spoke to Joi Ito about the release of documents that accuse Media Lab co-founder Marvin Minsky of involvement in Jeffrey Epstein’s horrific crimes.* Joi told me that evening that the Media Lab’s ties to Epstein went… Read More »On…
You should be multi-faceted, never work purely to your technical abilities, think about how you can make your entire company better
Open letter from an Android developer to the Google Play team and the community of Android developers and users
Presently, real-time communication tools such as Slack are very popular in business environments. However, use of these tools creates a culture that harms projects. It negatively impacts planning a...
Today's major defense systems rely heavily on software-enabled capabilities. However, many defense programs acquiring new systems first determine the physical items to develop....
Programmers are expensive and difficult to control; here are a few tricks to keep them underpaid and happy, for a while.
We started Kapwing (an online image and video editor [https://www.kapwing.com]) almost two years ago and grew the company from 2 co-founders to 12 full-time employees in the last 12 months. Our team is based full-time in San Francisco, where the unemployment rate is astonishingly low. I wanted
What if tech debt wasn’t always an accident, caused by incorrect assumptions and unexpected circumstances? How would you spend a tech debt mortgage?
Lessons learned and mistakes made while turning an open-source project into a profitable SaaS product.
