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Eliminating Toil
Learn what toil is in SRE, how it affects operational work, and why minimizing it is crucial for efficiency and morale.
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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 6,085 posts.
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Engineers should invest in decision-making skills early
Reforge drives team performance, with the most actionable learning from vetted operators that your team will actually use and apply.
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Suffering-oriented programming
Someone asked me an interesting question the other day: "How did you justify taking such a hu...
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I Shipped, Therefore I Am
“Who are you and why are you here?” –Dave Cutler (DaveC)
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Shamelessness as a strategy (2019)
I’ve enjoyed playing a game called Avalon recently. I won’t go too far into the rules, but it’s a hidden role game in the vein of Secret Hitler or Werewolf, where one team is “good”, trying to uncover who among them is “evil”, before the evil team wins.
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OKRs Are Bullshit
It's a new year, time for a new rant! And yes, before you ask, the post title is deliberately provocative. You might say this is my ploy to get more paid subscribers, because only paid subscribers can leave comments and I expect that the title alone will make many of you want to comment. 😝
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Software engineers should be a little bit cynical
A lot of my readers call me a cynic when I say things like “you should do things that make your manager happy” or “big tech companies get to decide what…
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Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
U.S. workers form first recognized unit as global union movement builds across Wikimedia Foundation
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AI killed the tech interview. Now what?
How can we do better interviews in the age of AI
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Why and how we retired Elm
Kevin Yank’s website
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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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Rabbit holes: Why being smart hurts your productivity
##The geek’s Achille’s Heel I recently decided practice my algorithms skills everyday by working through Skiena’s Algorithm Design Manual and doing some Interview Street problems. To make it somewhat more interesting I decided to do all the exercises and problems in Haskell.
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How GitHub Works: Be Asynchronous
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Is 40 the New 60?
Here's a funny story: I've been using and teaching Python for over 20 years, and designed its built-in set module, but nobody would hire me as a Python programmer when I was laid off by RStudio in February. I was "too senior" for every developer role I applied for, even when the first paragraph of my cover letter said…
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How I got my dream job in the tech industry without a CS degree
A story about the unconventional strategies I used to land a job I love.
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Want to be a leader? Wash the Dishes When Nobody Else Will.
When you're starting a business, you have to wear a lot of hats. You don't have an HR department, or an IT department, or a marketing department, or any specialized department, so if a press...
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Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees
Although age bias is still the norm, the value-add of longtime, experienced workers is beginning to take shape.
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What makes a senior engineer? Writing software vs. building systems
Junior Engineers care about writing Software. They value code quality, employ best practices, try to adopt cutting-edge technologies. They invest a lo
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Breaking bad news
People often try to soften the blow of bad news. It doesn't work.