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It's Not Sabotage, They're Drowning
As you gain visibility into system problems, you’ll often experience push back like this: I refactored the code from untested and untestable, to testable with 40% test coverage. The senior ar…
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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 6,086 posts.
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How Many People Can Someone Lead?
How big of a team can someone lead well? What are the factors that might decrease or increase this size? Find out more in this article
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How to build silos and decrease collaboration on purpose
Although counter-intuitive, it can be beneficial to build silos and decrease collaboration between teams. Balance the need for collaboration, coordination, and communication with these tips.
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Advice for academic refugees
Recently I met a new coworker, a now-former professor who left academia.
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How We Designed Our Interview Process
ReadMe helps you create beautiful, interactive API documentation that developers love.
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The Accountability Problem
This is a transcript of my keynote presentation at the Agile Cambridge conference in England on October 2nd, 2025. The topic was “The Accountability Problem.” How do we define software department accountability so our business partners don’t do it for us?
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You might as well be a great copy editor
Alas, our minds automatically fill in gaps and cover over mistakes when we read.
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On the Law of Diminishing Specialization
On Productive Technology and its Discontents Recently, I’ve been dipping in and out of Edward Tenner’s provocative 1996 book, When Things Bites Back. In following ... Read more
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Questions I'm asking in technical interviews
Questions I'm asking in interviews
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Effective Technical Leadership
Most successful projects have a single engineer responsible for driving the project forward while ensuring that strong technical decisions…
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Ten Weeks with Y Combinator’s Startup School
In early March 2017, I found out that Y Combinator had announced its first online startup school. That really made me happy, since we’ve…
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We’re in the Middle of a Data Engineering Talent Shortage
Stay up-to-date with the latest news, practical tips & best practices from Qlik on data analytics, data integration, data literacy, and big data analytics.
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The Software Engineering Identity Crisis
Many of us became software engineers because we found our identity in building things. Not managing things. Not overseeing things. Building things. With our own hands, our own minds, our own code. But that identity is being challenged. AI coding assistants aren’t just changing how we write software - they’re…
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How to Get Hired at CircleCI
Come work with us. Join our amazing team of highly technical engineers and business leaders to help us build great developer tools.
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What I Learned Going Through YC as a 17 Year Old
This post has been edited to include (under Additional Thoughts) friends and acquaintances who have helped me immensely on my journey.
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Why I do my resume in LaTeX
I’m guessing most of you have seen the comic explaining how a programmer reads your résumé. No, I don’t do my résumé in LaTeX just to get the +12 bonus. There are a handful of reasons I think it is a good idea. It stands out My résumé isn’t written in 12 pt. Arial or Times New Roman, which sets it apart from 75% of…
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They lied to you. Building software is hard
Every week there seems to be a new tool that promises to let anyone build applications 10x faster. The promise is always the same and so is the outcome.
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Why I Left Google
Jean Hsu - Fractional VP Engineering | Engineering Leadership for Startups
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The Rise and Fall of the Independent Developer
I’m old enough to remember a time before the Internet. I know what it’s like to develop software both with and without a worldwide network. Little has changed with the process of software development since the 1980’s. Of course there have been improvements in our tools and techniques, but the basic act of creating…
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