The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 311 posts.
It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of big-company HR practices. I’m more of the First Break all the Rules type. Despite my general skepticism of many standard practices, we still do annual performance reviews at my company, though I’m thinking seriously of dropping
A lot of frontend teams are very convinced that rewriting their frontend will lead to the promised land. And I am the bearer of bad tidings. If you are building a product that you hope has longevity, your frontend framework is the least interesting technical decision for you to make. And all of the time you spend…
i <3 firebase
Read how Google is using System Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) to analyze pure software systems and discover risks.
Stamina is one of the most universally useful traits you can develop. It's a more broadly applicable advantage than things that are situationally useful.
This article is about why on-call in it's current state in big-tech is flawed, or how to properly develop software.
Yesterday, the tj-actions repository, a popular tool used with Github Actions was compromised (for more background read one of these two articles). Watching the infrastructure and security engineering teams at Carta respond, it highlighted to me just how much LLMs can’t meaningfully replace many essential roles of…
Don't try to reform science. Not yet. Not in your PhD. In grad school, you'll start complaining about the publishing...
Zoe Ziani, a psychology researcher who had the misfortune several years ago as a Ph.D. student be tasked with following up on some unrelicable published psychology research, tells the story of how her department pulled the chair out from under her:
Alternative Title: Why all applied research organizations should hire a Bell-style systems engineer
Ah, the eternal question, straight from the mailbag.
Together with all of American higher education, Cornell is entering a time of significant financial uncertainty. The potential for deep cuts in federal research funding, as well as tax legislation affecting our endowment income, has now been added to existing concerns related to rapid growth and cost escalations. It…
Writing serves as a foundation for clarity in thought. It can help you engage more deeply with your ideas.
What are you going to do when you add a new kind?
New analysis finds tests for new doctors can measure what matters — the life and health of patients
tools, tactics, troubles along the way
Learning in public helps me grow as an engineer and seems to benefit others too. Here's why I should do more.
I think it is important to have a bias for action. Like anything else, this is something you can make a habit of. Moving forward allows you to make progress. I don’t know about you, but I’ve frozen up in the past not knowing what the right path was for me. Moving forward, even the smallest possible step, helped break…
Knowing what you're building
I released version 1 of my table seating planning software, PerfectTablePlan, in February 2005. 20 years ago this month. It was a different world. A world of Windows, shareware and CDs. A lot has c…
They care about the product and their needs.
There are 35% fewer software developer job listings on Indeed today, than five years ago. Compared to other industries, job listings for software engineers grew much more in 2021-2022, but have declined much faster since. A look into possible reasons for this, and what could come next.
How are Rust, C++, and Python trending on Hacker News in the job market? As a proxy measure for programming language trends, let’s analyze the frequency of programming language mentions in the mont…
How can we do better interviews in the age of AI
I had a wonderful job, until I didn’t. This is about what happened—and what is still happening.
The description suggests that this is some kind of extended metaphor about work. It appears to be written in that _Choose Your Own Adventure_ style second-person voice, yet there are no choices to be found within. Against your better judgment, you follow the link.
