Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 467 posts.
I have been collecting random software engineering research ideas from friends and colleagues for more than a decade. These are the questions I’ve been asked since I started taking notes ten years ago. I apologize for not keeping track of who wanted to know, but if you’re working on any of these, please get in touch…
This is a wild and hopeful story: grad students at Northeastern successfully pushed back against invasive digital surveillance in their workplace, through solidarity, fearlessness, and the bright light of publicity. It's a tale of hand-to-hand, victorious combat with the "shitty technology adoption curve."
TL;DR: Steve Yegge has joined Sourcegraph as Head of Engineering, where we are building the world's most open and comprehensive code intelligence platform (CIP).
Today I will share some of the software engineering soft skills I have learned from my first 10 years on Google Chrome, where I am a Senior Staff Engineering...
Update from Tines; The AI-native intelligent workflow platform
A simple principle to help structure code better
Over the last few years, I’ve grown from a fine to a good operator.
Deep work Nowadays, we are getting accustomed to working in a continuously interrupting environment. Smartphone notifications, hundreds of e-mails, open spaces, and meetings slicing our workday. We are feeling busy, and overworked, but are we more productive? If I am a salesman or project coordinator that way of…
I've spent 240 hours the past 6 months drawing, and I'm eager to go all-in. I'm planning to apply to Sheridan's animation undergrad program in February, and have been busy preparing a portfolio for it. Here's some of my recent work, and a lil music video featuring my progress over the months.
The Evolution of The Data Engineer: A Look at The Past, Present & Future
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…
What happens when executives are allowed to secretly sell stock at a company that is doing poorly? And what can founders learn from this incident?
To write great policies, arm those in the future who will kill your darlings
What did whiteboards ever do to you?
There haven’t been a lot of community structures or resources for Staff+ engineers. That’s changing.
How to model work that interacts with ambiguity
Tanishq Kancharla's personal website
Focus Time Saved Me from Burnout As a staff engineer, I’m expected to write and review code, give interviews, design and review one-pagers, groom tasks, participate in meetings (standups, planning …
Work with amazing people you love collaborating with, the rest (mission, purpose, etc) falls out from that.
Absent a time machine, telling others how to avoid my mistakes is the best I can do.
If you’re interested in strategy, this post will be valuable to you. It shares the the tools that I’ve found most valuable so far.
Mentor relationships can be absolutely wonderful over the arc of a career. This is a simple way to think about finding and keeping good mentors.
Most of my clients are CEOs of growing companies, most of the rest are C-level executives in similar settings, and a number of others are leaders in investment or professional services firms. In order to be effective in these roles they must be able to influence others, wield authority, and maintain status. At the…
We don’t really talk about layoffs. When you hear someone say they got laid off, it’s likely the next thing you hear from them is about the new job they’re starting. But we don’t talk about what it’s like in between those two events - which means we’re not acknowledging how traumatic it is to be laid off.
Open team communication means fewer distractions and more shared context. Why we default to public channels over DMs, and why it isn't just noise.
