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This weekend I was talking with a friend about how I'd planned and estimated a huge software project in one of my previous jobs. By that I mean not something which can be done by a single team in a sprint or two, but something which requires several teams, across several quarters of effort, involving many other…
No. Thanks for understanding. Ok that was the nutshell version. If that answers your question, that's great. The more detailed answer ...
For years, companies have been trying things like unconscious bias training, anonymizing resumes, etc. The numbers have barely moved. Here's a better way.
Tip: In complex software modernization projects treat estimates as guidelines, not deadlines.
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If you have discipline to throw away your first idea, draft, throwaway PRs often drives more progress than a design doc.
Notes that I mostly write for myself, but you can read if you want.
How I run a software book club
How Canva does hand-drawn shape recognition in the browser
In the United Kingdom, most people don’t feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. For two-thirds of the population, talking politics sincerely, on the job, is uncomfortable. People who hold certain, commonplace views, stay silent believing that expressing those views will carry penalty not reward. These…
Or how I decided to scream into the void about how awful the job market is. I'm still in a very sour mood after the latest rounds of interviews but ultimatel...
Why and how we continuously invested the team bandwidth to pay back tech debt and what were the results?
One of my favorite patterns in our industry is when the old and established are wiped out by disruption, irrelevance, or changing fashions. Like a forest fire, clearing out the old is very destructive and shouldn’t be taken lightly. But what’s left behind is a clean slate and immense opportunity.
A common topic of discussion among my close friends is where the bottlenecks are in our productivity and how we can execute more quickly. This is very different from what I see in my extended social circles, where people commonly say that velocity doesn't matter . In online discussions about this, I frequently see…
To my great surprise, young people now somewhat frequently contact me in order to solicit career advice.They are usually in college or highschool, and want to know what the best next steps are for a career in security or software development.This is, honestly, a really complicated question, mostl...
There they sit, the preschooler class encircling their mentor, the substitute teacher.
if you always wanted to but think it isn't worth telling a speaker you liked their talk, this is your encouragement post to do so.
She was discouraged, she was given an excuse to quit. Nevertheless, she coded.
Tenures are at an all-time low in the software industry.
This post shares the story of Pedro David Garcia Lopez, a Ruby and Rails developer based in UK, who used to be a Lorry driver.
The manifestation of my imposter syndrome, for me and today, is what does it mean to be a software engineer. There’s a lot more noise than signal on the Internet about agentic engineering, wh…
This quote, which went viral 2 months ago and that Steinbeck probably never said, has stuck with me:
See a real-world example of how Google’s SRE practices can identify and help fix issues, even at the bottom of the hardware stack.
We recently discussed Information industry jobs data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: That post showed that layoffs in Information were elevated relative to layoffs for non-farm employment overall...
