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The Mature Programmer
1. The Mature Programmer The mature programmer manages their own time and productivity well. The MP knows that maintenance is as much wo...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,748 posts.
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Commit that changed my life
Votre quotidien décrypté avec intelligence et curiosité
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Life at a startup
As a child, I had read about the Homebrew Computer Club, where Osborne and Apple were born - and I wanted to be part of a big movement like that ever since. When I first heard about Y Combinator I thought here was something happening right now that might be looked back on in the same way. I worked my way through the…
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Estimates are difficult for developers and product owners
Product Owner: Hey, how long do you believe Feature F will take? Developer: Idk. We haven’t even started working on it and it’s bound to stir up some old issues.
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In Praise of Stacked PRs
Managing sets of small, dependent PRs enables faster review and increased developer velocity
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Conferences are inadvertently excluding many attendees from foreign countries
This is not an easy post for me to write, being a bit of a criticism / “you can do better” note for organisers of conferences that cater to a global community.
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It's not empowering to hand off the details
I think behind a lot of the enthusiasm around AI is a dream of being able to manifest things into reality without having to get into the details.
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How Might We Learn?
On an immersive future of learning
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Keep work fresh by teaching your successors and investing a bit in long-shots
If you’re doing what you’re told to do, they are paying you too much.
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Scaling from 2k to 25k engineers on GitHub at Microsoft
Jeff Wilcox is a principal engineer at Microsoft working on Microsoft's engineering system. Jeff lives in Seattle.
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We might all be AI engineers now
The models are good now. But most people still miss the point.
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Why I Left Google
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Resumes suck for hiring engineers
In this experiment, I wanted to see how good engineers and recruiters were at resume-based candidate filtering. Going into it, I was pretty sure that engineers would do a much better job than recruiters. However, that’s not what happened at all. As it turned out, people were pretty bad at filtering resumes across the…
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Stop Swiss Cheesing your calendar
(3 Min Read) Take control back over your calendar
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What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far)
A week ago, I wrote about how Generative and Agentic AI may be amplifying what I’ve been calling cognitive debt: the accumulated gap between a system’s evolving structure and a team’s shared unders...
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Why do incompetent managers get promoted?
Two books — 45 years apart — explain it. If you want to get ahead, it’s time to face the facts.
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What I learned from writing for The Onion for a month (2015)
I wrote for The Onion News Network for exactly four weeks. Here's what I learned.
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Mistakes I made as an engineer, but had to become a manager to see
I was shocked at how obvious my mistakes as an engineer became after my perspective changed.
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The Minimally-Nice Open Source Software Maintainer
Being involved in open source software is rewarding, yeah? You start off contributing to your favorite project, and it feels so heartwarming when that project’s maintainers recognize your effort. Then a few years later you somehow end up responsible for that project, and maybe some satellite projects, and people are…
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Scaling GitHub's Employees
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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