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A useful productivity measure?
In my new role as VP of Engineering , there was one question I was dreading more than any other: “How are you measuring productivity?”
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 300 posts.
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A Eulogy for DevOps
The DevOps movement has died out. What went wrong?
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Balancing engineering cultures: Debate everything vs. just tell me what to build
Lessons from leaders at New Relic, Credit Karma, Reforge, Hubspot, Trulia, Intercom, VSCO, and more
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Bring back private offices
Open Office Sucks
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Marketing to Engineers (2001)
I am a chemical engineer and have been writing copy designed to sell products and services to engineers for 10 years. Here’s what I know about appealing to this special audience:
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How I got an O-1 visa as a software engineer
Jump ahead • Timeline • Meeting the extraordinary ability criteria • How much does it cost? • Should you work with a lawyer?
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Good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the data
Explore how DevEx boosts productivity and innovation according to new research.
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40 Years of Programming
In April, 1984, my father bought a computer for his home office, a Luxor ABC-802 , with a Z80 CPU, 64 kilobytes of RAM, a yellow-on-black screen with 80 by 25 text mode, or about 160 by 75 pixels in graphics mode, and two floppy drives. It had BASIC in its ROM, and came with absolutely no games. If I wanted to play…
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Scrum Sucks
Breaking news: Scrum is bad.
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Losing two jobs in one year
and learn to accept imperfection
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How I prepare a talk for a tech conference (2022)
By the way, you can listen to me read this post aloud on my Patreon, which starts at $1/month! My 🌶️ spicy take 🌶️ is that I don’t like seeing tech talks live. I get very little out of 95% of…
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Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters
Four archetypes in software engineering
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No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and No Meetings Without an Agenda
When working remotely, asking for help is often just a few keystrokes away. So it's tempting to "quickly" ask someone for support when you get stuck.
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On finishing projects
Personal site of Alex Reichert
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Why Triplebyte Failed
How a once-successful, well-liked company failed, as told from within.
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We might want to regularly keep track of how important each server is
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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I give you feedback on your blog post draft but you don't send it to me (2021)
I say to you the same things I say to everyone, but it's good.
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How Might We Learn?
On an immersive future of learning
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Fear makes you a worse programmer (2014)
Fear makes you a worse programmer
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Drift towards danger and the normalization of deviance (2017)
Organizations tend to drift towards danger and normalize deviations from procedure.
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School is Not Enough: Learning is a consequence of doing (2021)
Learning is a consequence of doing
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Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense
Discover how Greptile, an AI-powered code review startup, implements the Fortress Method to balance event-driven and long-running engineering tasks, maximizing productivity in a small team.