Tips for leading tech projects and influencing decisions without formal authority, focusing on expertise, relationships, and communication.
An engineer critiques the misapplication of OKRs in tech teams, arguing for simple, outcome-focused plans over rigid quarterly rituals.
A developer reflects on the struggle of choosing between finishing old side projects and starting new, exciting ones.
A freelance React developer argues for charging by the hour instead of by project value to handle scope creep and changing requirements.
A simple, five-step formula for building trust through reliability, clear communication, and consistent action in work and life.
How a small team organized a 250-person tech conference in just two months, focusing on community and embracing serendipity.
A comprehensive guide covering all stages of conference planning, from initial concept and budgeting to post-event follow-up.
A monthly retrospective from TinyPilot's founder covering business metrics, goal progress, and software development insights.
A developer analyzes the costly mistakes behind his $46k website redesign, offering lessons on project management and hiring.
The author argues for the importance of increasing productivity and velocity, countering common objections and using a personal project as an example.
A developer shares his personal digital workflow for organizing projects, notes, and tasks using a folder-based system and syncing tools.
A software engineer critiques story-point-driven estimation in agile development, arguing it's often misleading and doesn't solve core estimation problems.
A senior engineer describes how the Feature Lead role at Nested provided the growth and business impact he was missing as a senior developer.
A review of the book 'Dreaming in Code', which chronicles the failures of the Chandler open-source software project as a cautionary tale.
