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Do something, so we can change it
A habit for addressing two-way decisions.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 395 posts.
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Conferences are inadvertently excluding many attendees from foreign countries
This is not an easy post for me to write, being a bit of a criticism / “you can do better” note for organisers of conferences that cater to a global community.
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Keep work fresh by teaching your successors and investing a bit in long-shots
If you’re doing what you’re told to do, they are paying you too much.
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Mistakes I made as an engineer, but had to become a manager to see
I was shocked at how obvious my mistakes as an engineer became after my perspective changed.
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Shopify elevated the non-manager career path and ditched meetings
The difference between crafters and managers and how Shopify rages against meetings
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Dumb and Gets Things Done (2010)
Someone once asked Napoleon how he decided where to assign soldiers. Napoleon's reply was that it's simple: soldiers are either smart or dumb, lazy or energetic. The smart and energetic I make field commanders. They know what to do and can rally the troops to do it. The smart and lazy I make generals. They
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Beyond introvert vs. extrovert
This 100-year-old binary classification of human interaction holds us back. It's time to move past it.
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It's not microservice or monolith; it's cognitive load
How understanding cognitive load and team capacity can help you decide on an architectural style
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Call yourself titles
We constantly question ourselves when attempting anything new for the first time, which is daunting. And what’s worse, it prevents us from doing anything new, so we can’t change who we are. If you’ve always been terrible at sports and want to start working out, the natural reaction after a few attempts is to stop and…
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Self-teaching, spaced repetition, and why books don't work
Listen now | "I was shocked with how intense, painstaking, and effective his learning process was"
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Interview with Jeff Geerling
Andrew Gregory of HackSpace magazine sat down with the one and only Jeff Geerling to chat about the wholesome corner of the internet he created.
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Serving 250k developers with one support engineer
Automation is a key part of every org in our company, including Support. It’s how we’re building the infrastructure company that we’ve always wanted.
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The Code Review Pyramid (2022)
Table of Contents FAQ When it comes to code reviews, it’s a common phenomenon that there is much focus and long-winded discussions around mundane aspects like code formatting and style, whereas …
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How to Survive Your Project's First 100k Lines
After many years of development, the Vale compiler just hit its 100,000th line of code.
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What you give up by moving into engineering management
Moving into a management role may be a rewarding step in your career, but you should know about the things you're leaving behind.
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There is no data engineering roadmap
Data Engineering is booming and many are looking for a cheat sheet to get started. Do you really need to learn 200 tools before you get your first job?
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The art of knowing when to quit
Closing time, every new beginning Comes from some other beginning’s end, yeah “Closing Time”, Semisonic Have you ever found yourself saying: That movie was…
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The WFH future is destroying bosses' brains (2021)
Yesterday, Silicon Valley Analyst Jeremiah Owyang vaguely reported that executives are scared of their employees “working part-time (but paid full salary)” and “even working on side hustle startups, while on a full-time salary,” a truly terrifying prospect that has chilled me to the bone.
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What I wish I knew when I got my ASN
A thorough walkthrough and explanation of the process of getting an ASN, which I wish I knew when I got mine. Hopefully this will prevent readers from headaches and getting scammed.
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Meta rediscovers the cubicle
Back in 2016, I reported on a rumor that was circulating about employee dissatisfaction at Meta (then, Facebook). Developers, it seemed, were unhappy with the ... Read more
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Keyboard tricks from a macOS app dev
This is a collection of keyboard and trackpad workflows that I accumulated over the last 7 years of using a MacBook. Here are some important abbreviations I am using in this article: | Term | Meaning | Explanation | ...
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Nobody ever paid me for code
Because mauve databases have the most RAM
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The Lone Developer Problem
If a single programmer builds something, it can be hard for others to maintain later.
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The AI research job market
There are plenty of jobs, but finding a place where you're happy is as hard as ever.
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My Problem with the Four-Document Model
Two universal facts about user documentation: Documentation is really important. We are really bad at writing it. We don’t have good theories on what makes for useful documentation. That is except for the four document model, or Diátaxis.1 I’m glad that people use it. I’m also a little frustrated that people use it…
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Two types of software engineers
One assumes it's easy because it's a non-technical problem, the other assumes that's why it's hard