A manager's guide to handling engineers who prioritize low-impact side tasks, balancing motivation with business needs.
Explores the benefits of hot reloading for Swift/iOS development, comparing it to other platforms and discussing its potential to save significant development time.
Explains the critical role of good documentation in software development, highlighting its benefits for maintenance, onboarding, and knowledge transfer.
An engineering manager debates the feasibility of measuring individual developer productivity, arguing against simplistic metrics in creative technical work.
The article argues for intentionally adding friction in development workflows to improve code quality and performance, using npm as a key example.
Explores how sleep deprivation negatively impacts software developers' coding abilities and productivity, comparing it to sleep-deprived doctors.
A developer argues for using the terminal over GUIs for efficiency, customization, and the compounding benefits of aliases and scripts.
A developer shares a productivity tip: asking for help online when stuck on a coding problem, then sleeping, often leads to a solution by morning.
Introducing paypal-scripts, a zero-config tool for PayPal developers inspired by create-react-app to boost productivity.
A programmer discusses techniques to reduce cognitive load when reading code, focusing on visual aspects like fonts, spacing, folding, and documentation.
A guide to 7 essential Angular development tools for scaffolding, code analysis, debugging, and improving developer productivity.
A developer discusses the significant time investment and hidden challenges of blogging, offering a realistic counterpoint to common advice.
A developer praises the Solarized color scheme for its eye comfort, dual dark/light themes, and widespread editor support.
