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An epic treatise on scheduling, bug tracking, and triage
[Note 2017-12-29: the news.ycombinator.com discussion of this post is unusually useful. You may want to read it first.] [Note 2018-09-01:...
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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 4,748 posts.
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Make Boring Plans
You’re probably familiar with the concept of Choose Boring Technology. If you’re not, I’ll wait for you to read the excellent blog post by…
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Golden Handcuffs
Stock-based compensation plans throughout the startup and tech sector are based on “golden handcuffs” – the idea that an employee can’t leave because they would be giving up too much money if they do. I’ve never loved that concept. It feels like staying in a bad marriage for the kids. So I have been involved […]
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How to write a resume that converts
Keywords and outcomes that will get you an interview
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Goodbye Mozilla
Today is effectively my last day at Mozilla, before I start at Impossible on Monday. I’ve been here for 6 years and a bit and it’s been quite an experience. I think it’s worth reflecting on, so here we go; Fair warning, if you have no interest in me or Mozilla, this is going to make pretty boring reading.
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Code review review is the manager’s job
Code review is such a high value, high leverage team activity that every manager should ensure the process is done well.
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Tips for Noogler Engineers (Noogler = New at Google)
I'm surprised by the number of people inside Google who actually read my blog. I once did contemplate writing a "career guide for Googlers",...
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Being a Solo Software Entrepreneur at 40
A tale of growth, responsibilities, and limits.
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Taking back Mondays and Tuesdays (2019)
The creative studio of NYC-based designer and creative director, Able Parris
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My Experience Running Development at a Startup
Posts from the old antjanus.com blog (2012–2020), rebuilt from the Wayback Machine.
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Why I left news
I get asked two questions several times a week, and I brush off both with a verbal swat. One — because I’m in my late 20s, I suppose – is when are you getting married? And the other, because …
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Talk like a systems engineer: Yaks all the way down
Professional niches have – time immemorial – built their own special dialects and languages, sometimes using this as an…
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On Being an Engineer in 2026
We all feel it. Every other week, we lose or delegate another part of our work to agents. It started with giving up on writing code. Then it expanded to pretty much any writing - Slack messages,…
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Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf
How far is too far when it comes to including people with different beliefs?
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Framework 13 AMD 7040 Series: A Developer's First Impressions
My Initial experience with this brand new modular laptop
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The Timmy Trap
This is Part 2 of my LLM series. In Part 1 , I discussed how in just a few short years, we went from the childlike joy of creating “Pirate Poetry” to the despair that our jobs would disappear. My main message was to relax a bit, as companies abuse the hype cycle to distort what is actually happening.
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Do I belong in tech anymore?
On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.
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The illegible nature of software development talent
Here’s another blog post on gathering some common threads from reading recent posts. Today’s topic is about the unassuming nature of talented software engineers. The first thread was a …
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How to work with me - a no BS approach
In March 2005, a photocopy was handed to me in preparation for work with one of the top wigs. It enumerated the rules necessary to avoid con...
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Being Slow to Criticise
This post is not about that story. This post is about a comment made by one of the readers in the forum where I saw it.