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Remote Work Can (and Does) Boost Employee Productivity
Data proves it: Remote work boosts productivity. Here's why — and how you can empower your remote team to be more productive.
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Penetration testing and low-cost freelancing
Penetration testing is complex. For it to be successful, the tester needs to possess a variety of different abilities and skills. Some testers rely only on automated tools, while others focus more on manual analysis. While a creative and unconventional way of thinking is necessary, it is also important for the tester…
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Published my first proper product after working as a developer for 10 years
The AI agent for accounting and bookkeeping firms. Dytto works inside the tools your firm already uses and handles the routine work. You sign off on everything.
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Five Second Feedback
And they said it couldn’t be done!
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Clear and Present Leadership
Great leaders communicate clearly and are involved
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Does scrum ruin great engineers or are you doing it wrong?
A question on Stack Overflow’s Software Engineering site caught our attention recently. It tries to come to terms with the impact of scrum on developers' ability to do a great job. The claim is a bold one: Scrum is turning good developers into average ones. Could that be true?
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I Feel Like I Have No Real Interests; My Only Interest Is Making Money
I feel like I have no real interests or hobbies. My only interest is making money and the pursuit of any activity which can lead to that quickly. However, I feel like this attitude is robbing me of fulfillment and life experiences.
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Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime Is Mostly Boring
When law enforcement agencies tout their latest cybercriminal arrest, the defendant is often cast as a bravado outlaw engaged in sophisticated, lucrative, even exciting activity. But new research suggests that as cybercrime has become dominated by pay-for-service offerings, the vast majority of day-to-day activity…
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MSU Vice President of research & innovation Steve Hsu has been forced to resign
President Stanley asked me this afternoon for my resignation. I do not agree with his decision, as serious issues of academic freedom and fr...
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What does happiness at work mean?
An unscientifical and personal approach.
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On Scaling Mental Models
No Newsletter Next Week I'll be on vacation in the Caribbean, sipping drinks and juggling for Hermit crabs. The Actual Thing I'm a vim user. I've used Vim...
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Good coders borrow, great coders steal
Copying and pasting can be dangerous, but then again, so can many aspects of software development when done incautiously. In this post, I’ll take a look at what code copying actually means for software development, what good code theft means, and the pitfalls of copying badly.
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When to Overcommunicate
Meet Glowforge, the 3D laser printer that makes magical things at the push of a button.
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The gap between learning code and producing usable software
One of the unspoken areas about software development is building usable software.
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What is the engineering hiring bar?
An engineer invests countless hours preparing to interview for a new job. To succeed, the engineer must meet the hiring bar. What does that actually mean?
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Things I Learned to Become a Senior Software Engineer
Everything I learned to become a senior software engineer. From good skills to have, to dealing with difficult engineering problems.
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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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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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Optimize Onboarding
A guide to scaling product & engineering teams from $0 to past $100M ARR
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Stop trying to make hard work easy
How to cope even when work is hard.
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Hopefully fair performance reviews for software developers
Note: if you're just looking for performance review templates and examples, head to the templates page [https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/templates-as-inspiration-for-software-engineers/] to download them. I've had about a dozen performance reviews during my decade-long software engineering career. Some of them were…
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Why I Left IBM to Work on CockroachDB
I’m a database nerd. Or, to be more precise, a DBMS nerd. But back in university, I avoided the Databases course at all costs. A little ironic when you consider I quit my job building IBM Db2 to work on CockroachDB.
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Tackling Webdev as a Bioinformatician: why is it so hard?
The web is amazing and amazingly complex
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The Fallacy of Move Fast and Break Things
LaunchDarkly helps teams safely manage code and AI agents in production with feature flags, progressive delivery, automated rollback, and runtime control.