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Step Away from Stack Overflow
Notes that I mostly write for myself, but you can read if you want.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 437 posts.
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Strong software tips from 2000 that are 100% valid today
Have you ever heard of SEMA? It’s a fairly esoteric system for measuring how good a software team is. No, wait! Don’t follow that link! It will take you about six years just to understa…
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Staying on the path to high performing teams (2018)
A friend is six months into supporting a sixty person engineering group. Perhaps unsurprisingly, most of their teams believe they have urgent hiring needs. It’s a great question, and captures a deeply challenging aspect of leading an organization: keeping the path after you’ve established a strategy and while it’s…
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The Ambiguity of Real Work
All ambiguity is resolved by actions of practitioners at the sharp end of the system.Dr. Richard I. Cook, How Complex Systems Fail There’s a wonderful book by the late urban planning professo…
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The Evolution of Developer Salaries: Looking Back 20 Years
There's a lot to consider when charting the rise and fall of developer salaries over the years. Let's dive in!
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The Daily Standup Is a Waste of Time
Daily standups feel like a waste of time. I will teach you two new techniques the will make every minute count.
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Investing in Startups by Passing the Series 65
From studying for the exam to registering with the SEC — my foray into investing in startups and venture capital by passing the Series 65 and becoming a licensed investment adviser representative.
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Stop the “Hard Work” Obsession
One of the persistent myths in America is that success is primarily down to hard work. Yes, you cannot have success by lying on the Sofa…
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Using Apple Silicon (M1) as a cloud engineer, two months in
In this article, Vlad shares his experience using the Apple M1 as a cloud engineer. He discusses the compatibility of various software, including D...
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Progress Beats Perfect
This is a favorite saying of mine. I use it to motivate myself when I feel disheartened about how much I have to learn and improve. If I do ...
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Doing a Job – The Management Philosophy of Adm. Hyman G. Rickover
Excerpt from a speech Adm. Hyman Rickover (1900-1986) gave at Columbia University in 1982 outlining his leadership style.
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Mocks Aren't Stubs (2007)
Explaining the difference between Mock Objects and Stubs (together with other forms of Test Double). Also the difference between classical and mockist styles of unit testing.
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Google SRE - Defining slo: service level objective meaning
SRE SLO book to understand service level objective meaning and the various service level terminilogy including sla slo sli to improve service reliability.
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Google SRE - Blameless Postmortem for System Resilience
Blameless postmortems in SRE culture. Incident study that focus on root cause analysis and preventive actions, for culture of continuous improvement.
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Basecamp's new etiquette regarding societal politics at work
Jason announced a raft of changes we've made to Basecamp earlier today. By far the most controversial is a new etiquette around societal politics at work, and the stances we'll take as a company. So to expand on that, here's a segment from what I wrote internally on that topic, as part of the announcement to employees…