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lethain.com
Moving the finish line.
lethain.com
2 min read · May 17th · When I was a young boy, a cousin gifted me a copy of Steely Dan’s greatest hits. In that era of CDs and 56k baud modems, I didn’t have much new music to play, and over the summer I listened to that CD…
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scottkennedy.us
Why I left Google: work-life balance
scottkennedy.us
3 min read · May 10th · 2022-05-04 A few months ago, I quit my job at Google after 10 years to join a 40 person startup (Replit). At the time, I had a hard time expressing why I needed to make the change, even though I knew…
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copyconstruct.medium.com
Why Success Is Often Elusive at the Highest Echelons
copyconstruct.medium.com
8 min read · Apr 25th · During recent discussions with friends, one common theme that crops up very frequently is how success has remained rather elusive to recent…
medium.com
Airbnb’s Microservices Architecture Journey To Quality Engineering
medium.com
1 min read · May 14th · Actionable learnings for building microservices.
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rosenzweig.io
The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug
rosenzweig.io
8 min read · May 13th · 13 May 2022In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture, AGX, rumoured to be derived from Imagination’s PowerVR series. Since then, we’ve been reverse-engineering AGX and building…
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christine.website
I Miss Heroku's DevEx
christine.website
4 min read · May 12th · A 7 minute read. If you've never really experienced it before, it's gonna sound really weird. Basically the main way that Heroku worked is that they would set up a git remote for each "app" it hosted.…
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devops.com
Agile/Scrum is a Failure
devops.com
6 min read · May 10th · In this week’s The Long View: Agile and Scrum are increasingly getting a bad reputation, being associated with the worst aspects of toxic workplace culture.
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InfoQ
Reducing Cognitive Load in Agile DevOps Teams Using Team Topologies
InfoQ
~16 min read · May 11th · In this article we will be sharing our experience learned from 12 months of adopting certain management and organisational insights from the book Team Topologies. It explores how we identified areas…
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georgiabloyce.tech.blog
Using metrics to report on quality
georgiabloyce.tech.blog
3 min read · May 4th · Why do you need metrics? The role of data in software is to provide objective information for us to base decisions on. It can be used proactively to inform our strategies and reactively to understa…
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medium.com
Confident Testing: A Methodology of Testing at Scale
medium.com
10 min read · May 4th · I love teaching people about Continuous Confidence. Testing Software can be difficult and sometimes quite frustrating. It can be even worse…
javascript.plainenglish.io
Stack & Tools You Should Learn to Become a Full-Stack Developer Faster
javascript.plainenglish.io
~12 min read · May 11th · Master these tools to become a full-stack developer faster.
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agilequalitymadeeasy.com
The sprint planning meeting that goes on forever
agilequalitymadeeasy.com
3 min read · May 4th · The sprint planning meeting is the most extended in the scrum framework, and based on my experience, it is also the most exhausting meeting for most teams. The most challenging thing about this…
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larahogan.me
Resources for leading through crises
larahogan.me
1 min read · May 11th · My blog post from 2017, “Managering through terrible times,” continues to (sadly) be relevant for folks leading teams through the tumultuous times we find ou...
earthly.dev
The Other Kind of Staff Software Engineer
earthly.dev
8 min read · May 13th · Let’s talk about a career in tech, but not the usual boring stuff about salary or how to pass the interview process at the place with the most over...
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daniel.haxx.se
A tale of a trailing dot
daniel.haxx.se
7 min read · May 12th · Trailing dots on host names in URLs is the gift that keeps on giving. Let me take you through a dwindling story of how the dot is handled differently in different places through the stack of an…
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pboyd.io
The regex [,-.]
pboyd.io
1 min read · May 12th · I stumbled on this regex recently: \d{2}[,-.]\d{2}. The intention is clear enough: match two sets of two digits separated by a comma, a dash, or a period. Of course, it shouldn’t work. Dashes in…
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medium.com
Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, And How It Made Me Sick
medium.com
8 min read · May 11th · I joined Google in early 2015 to work on the V8 team as one of the first authors of the WebAssembly specification. This is a partial story…
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ehmatthes.com
PyCon US 2022 Highlights
ehmatthes.com
~18 min read · May 12th · It’s been three years since any of us have been able to attend PyCon in person. I had mixed feelings about attending this year because despite what most of us are being told officially, Covid isn’t…
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Kevin Kelly
103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
Kevin Kelly
Apr 29th · Today is my birthday. I turn 70. I've learned a few things so far that might be helpful to others. For the past few years, I've jotted down bits of unsolicited advice each year and much to my surprise I
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ciechanow.ski
Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski
ciechanow.ski
20+ min read · May 4th · Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.
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javascript.plainenglish.io
Stack & Tools You Should Learn to Become a Full-Stack Developer Faster
javascript.plainenglish.io
~12 min read · May 11th · Master these tools to become a full-stack developer faster.
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First Round
From Early Employee to Technical Founder: Essential Career Lessons for Engineers
First Round
20+ min read · May 3rd · From early employee to technical founder: Amber Feng shares essential lessons for engineers up and down the org chart, drawing from her 8-year career at Stripe and becoming a technical founder of…
Stack Overflow
You should be reading academic computer science papers
Stack Overflow
6 min read · Apr 7th · You read documentation and tutorials to become a better programmer, but if you really want to be cutting-edge, academic research is where it's at.
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scottkennedy.us
Why I left Google: work-life balance
scottkennedy.us
3 min read · May 10th · 2022-05-04 A few months ago, I quit my job at Google after 10 years to join a 40 person startup (Replit). At the time, I had a hard time expressing why I needed to make the change, even though I knew…
Reader View · Shared by 115, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Paul Graham
Stack Overflow
The complete guide to protecting your APIs with OAuth2
Stack Overflow
10 min read · Apr 11th · OAuth2 is one of the most popular specifications for API authentication today, though wrapping your head around it can be a challenge.
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johnpublic.mataroa.blog
IBM's asshole test
johnpublic.mataroa.blog
1 min read · May 4th · Some years back I applied to join IBM's grad scheme, there was a peculiar stage to the process I've not seen elsewhere. It was during the onsite day, where a batch of 20 or so applicants were put…
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agilequalitymadeeasy.com
The sprint planning meeting that goes on forever
agilequalitymadeeasy.com
3 min read · May 4th · The sprint planning meeting is the most extended in the scrum framework, and based on my experience, it is also the most exhausting meeting for most teams. The most challenging thing about this…
Reader View · Shared by 88, including Massimiliano Aroffo
acjay.com
11 Principles of Engineering Management
acjay.com
3 min read · Apr 24th · More than 2 years ago, I decided to try to create a brief, digestible manual on the expectations of management for senior engineers at my company who are considering making the shift. At the time, …
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Kevin Kelly
103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
Kevin Kelly
Apr 29th · Today is my birthday. I turn 70. I've learned a few things so far that might be helpful to others. For the past few years, I've jotted down bits of unsolicited advice each year and much to my surprise I
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OpenAI
DALL·E 2
OpenAI
1 min read · Apr 6th · DALL·E 2 is a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.
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First Round
Ditch Your To-Do List and Use These Docs To Make More Impact
First Round
20+ min read · Apr 19th · After tackling startup challenges from Stripe Press to Figma Education, Brie Wolfson shares her personal collection of templates — the docs that she's used to stay focused on the work that matters and…
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ciechanow.ski
Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski
ciechanow.ski
20+ min read · May 4th · Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.
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tiny-helpers.dev
All tools
tiny-helpers.dev
~12 min read · From 2020 · A collection of single-purpose online tools for web developers...Brought to you by Stefan Judis( Website, Twitter , GitHub )
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medium.com
Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming
medium.com
~18 min read · From 2016 · I’ve been programming in Object Oriented languages for decades. The first OO language I used was C++ and then Smalltalk and finally .NET…
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Inc.
Welcome to the No-Code Software Revolution
Inc.
4 min read · From 2019 · The future of software is about "no-code" platforms
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The Observer Effect.
Daniel Ek, Founder and CEO of Spotify
The Observer Effect.
20+ min read · 2020-10-04 · Daniel Ek on how he spends his time, learns and makes decisions.
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The Observer Effect.
The Observer Effect
The Observer Effect.
20+ min read · 2020-12-16 · Tobi Lütke on how he spends his time, learns and makes decisions.
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