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Updating classic workplace sabotage techniques
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Lessons from Stripe
How working at Stripe changed my outlook on optimism, ambition, and recruiting.
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Two years of teaching high school CS
(This post is also now also listed on the Pickcode Blog) Leaving Teaching I’m posting this on my last day teaching high school computer science. In the pas...
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Remote software developers earn more than non-remote developers
This post is an excerpt from my 2020 software developer pay analysis . Read the rest of the analysis here .
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What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Startups 4 Years Ago
The year is 2007, and I had just left Microsoft to dive into the startup world. Like many first time entrepreneurs, I was very excited about the adventure. And like many first time entrepreneurs, I didn’t know where to start.
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The End of OS X
OS X is retired, but fortunately, its legacy appears to live on in macOS 11.0.
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Focus is saying no to good ideas
Several stories about one of the hardest maxims to put to practice in business.
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Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room
In 2011, Larry Page became CEO of Google and tried to fix meetings. But his new policies were no match for Google Calendar pedants.
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It's official: developers get better with age. And scarcer.
As a senior developer I get asked sometimes if constant change of technology is making me, well, obsolete. Personally I don't have problem w...
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Learning needs to be effortful to be effective
Online content makes edutainment the norm among curious and intelligent people, who don't realize that they aren't actually learning what they think they are.
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How to Network as an Introvert
A calm guide to networking as an introvert—learn how posture, presence, and small signals can help you connect meaningfully without faking extroversion.
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Why I won’t give talks about being a woman in tech
You can now find it at /posts/2016/why-i-wont-talk-about-being-a-woman-in-tech-and-neither-should-you/ . If you don't do anything, you'll be redirected automatically (if your browser supports that).
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Next dream job can be in an HTTP header
Have you ever thought to find your next job in an HTTP header? cURL can reveal this and many more secrets.
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What to Learn
It's common to see people advocate for learning skills that they have or using processes that they use. For example, Steve Yegge has a set of blog posts where he recommends reading compiler books and learning about compilers. His reasoning is basically that, if you understand compilers, you'll see compiler problems…
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Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI
How to use AI coding assistants without letting your hard-earned engineering skills wither away.
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Write some software, give it away for free
This website which you're on right now is free (as in beer), free (as in freedom), open source software called Nonograph. It cost about $600 USD to release, mos...
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Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain
From chronically sore to chronically curious about the mind 🧠
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Consider working on genomics
Genomics needs more talented software engineers—here's why you should consider joining the field.