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Why and how we retired Elm
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How I stay motivated as a solo creator
Working solo has its difficulties. For one, my income is somewhat tied to my productivity, and my productivity highly correlates to my state of mind. This is...
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Best and worst decisions I’ve made
Today’s post is a little more personal than professional (in fact, this started off as a post for my personal blog), but there’s still plenty of overlap into entrepreneurship and crowdf…
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My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used
A classically trained sysadmin shouting into the void.
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Not a real engineer (2019)
A short, dark prose poem on being told you are not a real engineer, and the monstrous thing you become instead.
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Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend
After the wave of layoffs at Meta (previously known as Facebook) in November of 2022, I recall messages in the Facebook group for former employees discussing how to handle elements of the redundancy process, like if it was possible to max out retirement saving contributions, or spending gym benefits whilst
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On Becoming a VP of Engineering
People rarely talk about how they made it into the role of VP of Engineering. Join Emily as she opens up about the process - good and bad.
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Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well
Extensible programs like Obsidian have achieved a Holy Grail of software architecture, after decades of failed attempts.
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I kind of killed Mercurial at Mozilla
Did you hear the news? Firefox development is moving from Mercurial to Git . While the decision is far from being mine, and I was barely involved in the small incremental changes that ultimately led to this decision, I feel I have to take at least some responsibility. And if you are one of those who would rather use…
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Deming Paradox: Operationally rigorous companies aren't nice places to work
Is it possible to be data driven and operationally rigorous and still be human centric at the same time? Deming — who came up with these data techniques — believe that it is possible. I'm not so sure.
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The hardest part of building software is not coding, it's requirements
Why replacing programmers with AI won’t be so easy.
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How to Not Get Screwed over as a Software Engineer [video]
Dalton & Michael: The stories are true: technical founders (and early technical employees!) often end up with the short end of the stick when starting a company. In this episode of Dalton & Michael, we'll discuss how to keep that from happening to you.
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75% of Software Engineers Faced Retaliation Last Time They Reported Wrongdoing
53% of software engineers have suspected wrongdoing at work with ~145,000 software engineers in the UK having experienced retaliation the last time they reported it to their employers. For those who didn't report unethical behaviour, fear of retaliation from management was reported as the top reason (59%).
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Sleeping through the technical interview (2022)
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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Subverting the software interview (2021)
Writing code for online games, particularly for mobile or web-based slot games like this one , involves a mix of advanced graphics rendering, real-time networking, security implementations, and intricate game logic. Developers need to balance between performance optimization, cross-platform compatibility, and the…
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Architecture diagrams enable better conversations
Earlier this year myself and a couple others at DrDoctor did some training in C4 Architecture modelling1. The trainer was really good and over a few sessions with him we got the hang of the method. We went onto use what we had learnt, meeting everything Thursday over the course of 3 months. We focused mainly on…
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Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers (2010)
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Why is remote work seen as a gift?
It’s hardly insightful to suggest that the last few years have substantially changed the day to day experience of a knowledge worker. Nearly overnight even the most remote skeptical leadership teams were forced to embrace flexible work practices like working from home. But now, despite COVID-19 being a
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A student asked how I keep us innovative – I don't
Last week, I did a Q&A session for a friend's security class. One of the students asked a question that I loved. They asked something like, "As a principal engineer, how do you make sure your company stays at the forefront of innovation?"
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Lessons from a never-ending personal project
I learned things
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AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will
Just yesterday I commented on the ban to ChatGPT imposed in Italy by the Authority under the banner of preserving privacy and fighting potential misinformation.
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All code is technical debt
As adding more code to a product will slow down development, we should view all code as technical debt.
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The strategic use of titles to avoid overtime payments
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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On Craft
My grandpa -- my Missouri grandpa, who played slide guitar to me when I got homesick on the rare occasions I stayed with them -- grew up on a farm without electricity. He went past eighth grade, which really mattered to him. He loved that I played harp, which he always called "elegant," in an extremely Missouri…
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I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took
I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long it took me to apply to each one. Here is what I found.
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