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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,748 posts.
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Board Members
Over the last five years, there has been an incredible shift in leverage from investors to founders. It’s good in most ways, but bad in an important few. Founders’ desire for control is good in...
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Extremist Programming
Lazy evaluation is awesome. What if we made a PL where every data type was lazy?
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Don’t email me
Why I insist on people to keep issues on the mailing list(s) A recent twitter discussion I had with Andrei Neculau contributed to his blog post on this subject, basically arguing that I'm wrong but with many words and explanations. It triggered me to write up my primary reasons for why I strongly object to … Continue…
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Deadlines and sprints are bad for you
The development team’s capabilities for battling deadlines are fairly restricted, yet they end up committing to them in day-to-day life…
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Do Not Start A Startup: Or, What I Learned At Startup School 2011
Home page for Andy Brett
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Prioritization, multiple work streams, unplanned work
On development teams, balancing priorities while keeping focus is hard. Without an intentional approach you can quickly find your team submerged in a lot of different work, hurting progress on your most important goals. But the real world is messy. Prioritization is hard. Work comes in many shapes and sizes. Unplanned…
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A 37-year-old wanting to learn computer science
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How Automattic develops software for over 75M websites
Leif Singer, an engineer at Automattic, tells us about interviewing for a remote job at Automattic.
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Modern Extreme Programming
There was a recent discussion on the Extreme Programming mailing list kicked off by Ron Jeffries saying he wants his XP back. The implication being that Extreme Programming is no longer practised, and that most “Agile” organisations are actually practising Flaccid Scrum – some agile process but little of the technical…
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I forgot how to manage a server
Something embarrassing happened to me the other day. I was playing around with a new server on Digital Ocean and it occurred to me: I had no idea how to manage …
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Silos are fine, as long as there is an API between them
"Destroying silos" is a clumsy solution to team isolation
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The work is never just “the work” (2022)
A deep dive on why projects always take longer and a framework to improve future estimation
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Talking, Typing, Thinking: Software Is Not a Desk Job
tl;dr Developers over-optimise for the egonomics of typing and not enough for the egronomics of thinking.
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Programmer as wizard, programmer as engineer (2018)
Context matters. Sometimes we need to get things done, sometimes we need to build things to last.
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Why Every Professional Should Consider Blogging
Engineering Manager and AI Educator at IBM. Co-founder and Lead of IBM Skills Network, published author, and online educator with over 1.1 million course enrollments.
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An A/B Testing Story
A successful test for Appointment Reminder, and how you can get started testing more.
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Permission to Suck
My friend is one of those people who swears she “can’t” meditate. She can’t sit still that long. She can’t think of “nothing.” The times that she tried meditating, she kept thinking of things, and got frustrated. It probably doesn’t help that my friend was once a soloist in one of the top ballet companies
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A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer
Ten years and one day ago, on August 9, 2016, I abruptly quit my job. I mark this occasion as the beginning of my indie software developer career. Happy anniversary to me and to my customers!
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The three year myth
I got let go from my job - elimination of role, they're claiming - so I'm understandably a bit raw. So was my boss from what it looked like, though he still has a paycheck and benefits whereas I do not. Still, rawness is an excellent time to reflect on
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