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Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process
The context is smarter than you.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 300 posts.
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After 10 years, Yelp gave my app 4 days
David Kopec's blog.
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Perfectionism – one of the biggest productivity killers in the eng industry
It can cause immense stress and can lead to burnout 🤯 Don't worry, we're sharing our mistakes, so hopefully you'll avoid some!
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Brr Wants a Job
8 months post-ice, it's time for something new!
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No More Blue Fridays
No More Blue Fridays: How eBPF is already being adopted to prevent kernel crashes.
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Why I left Google
How I became the focus of a mass ritual against generative AI, and what I did about it.
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Panic at the Job Market
“I have the two qualities you require to see absolute truth: I am brilliant and unloved.”
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Return-to-Office Mandates Aren't Worth the Talent Risks
Accelerate HR outcomes with Gartner. Access AI-driven operating models, HR budget benchmarks, culture frameworks, and guidance for CHROs & HR leaders.
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DevRel at HuggingFace
DX @ HuggingFace: Scaling open source ML community 200% a year with No OKRs & No Meetings
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We created a fake delivery company to get a job
/imagine one day randomly finding yourself in a foreign country thousands of kilometres away from home. Your own country is suddenly at war, and all you have is a backpack hanging off your back. That’s a weird situation to be in. But you have to figure something out. So starting a fake delivery company sounds like the…
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Story points are pointless, measure queues
Their creator has disavowed them. The measure and definition is different for every team that uses it. They sow confusion, create conflict, unreliable
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How do we make remote meetings not suck? (2018)
First we discussed the fact that technical issues cause remote meetings to suck. Then, we discussed how even when there are no technical issues, remote meetings still suck. They suck because they e…
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Dear AWS, please let me be a cloud engineer again
I’m an AWS Serverless Hero, principal engineer at an AWS centric logistics company, and I build and maintain the AWS News Feed. It’s fair to say that I am very interested in everything AWS does. Bu…
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Use a work journal
You’re working on the most complex problem in computer science: fixing permissions on a deployment pipeline. It’s been 4 days you started on that simple task...
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Solving the Worst Problem in Programming Education: Windows
I've created a set of install scripts for Windows that helps people install many different programming languages using standard tools.
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As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023)
Companies are willing to lay off employees despite being profitable.
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Rebooting (something like) early Triplebyte
We're a bunch of ex-Triplebyte people. We loved it there, and we're trying to make something like it. Here's how.
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How to think in writing
The thought behind the thought
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“Technical” Skills
If you've ever said "soft skills" and felt weird about it, this essay is for you
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Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o
By structuring the comments on Hacker News using a predefined response_scheme for the LLM, I’ve tried to get a feeling for current job market and trends.
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Advantages of incompetent management
What constitutes managerial competence? As a vague starting point for an answer, we could say that competent management sets achievable objectives and then achieves them, by organizing and incentivizing the necessary work.
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The magic of small engineering teams
Creating a startup of small teams can help you ship stupidly fast.
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The case against morning yoga, daily routines, and endless meetings
How to maximize 10x work and avoid thoughtless daily 1x work routines
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Let's Stop Asking "Why Do You Want to Work for Us?" In Interviews
Most people want to work for your company for money, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
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A bunch of programming advice I'd give to myself 15 years ago
I finally have the feeling that I’m a decent programmer, so I thought it would be fun to write some advice with the idea of “what would have gotten me to this point faster?” I’m not claiming this is great advice for everyone, just that it would have been good advice for me. If you (or your team) are shooting…
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A Eulogy for DevOps
The DevOps movement has died out. What went wrong?