Degraded skills
An engineering manager discusses the challenge of maintaining technical skills while managing a large team and balancing personal life.
An engineering manager discusses the challenge of maintaining technical skills while managing a large team and balancing personal life.
A framework for developing a generative AI strategy, based on a talk exploring practical approaches for leaders and teams.
Mitchell Hashimoto shares his method for staying motivated and completing large technical projects by breaking them into tangible, demo-able chunks.
A developer discusses overcoming the personal impact of constructive criticism to grow professionally and personally, using the concept of anti-fragility.
Advice on when and how to include your GitHub profile in job applications, emphasizing relevance over quantity.
A DevEx engineer explains the role of Developer Experience, focusing on making software intuitive and joyful for developers, both internal and external.
The article discusses the importance of empathy and kindness in fostering healthy and productive open source software communities.
A software engineer reflects on how passionate, friction-filled debates within a tech startup signal team investment and care, contrasting with apathy.
Argues that pull requests are a valuable form of documentation, capturing the 'why' and context behind code changes for future developers.
A software engineer reflects on the unique loneliness of management compared to IC roles, where objective feedback is harder to find.
A software engineer's reflection on the challenges of switching between coding (IC) and management roles, and the impact on productivity.
A software developer shares a curated list of high-quality, topic-specific tech subreddits for advancing programming skills.
A developer recommends two essential books for improving professional programming skills: one on browser networking and one on data-intensive applications.
Analyzes the corporate pushback against remote work, questioning the stated reasons and exploring underlying power dynamics and economic factors.
Explores the strategic importance of Generative AI and how to build sustainable competitive advantages (moats) in AI products.
A hiring manager's advice on standing out in tech job applications, emphasizing personalized emails and meaningful interview conversations.
A critique of the 'considered harmful' mindset in programming, using a popular Laravel critique as a starting point to discuss self-reflection and best practices.
A guide for developers to shed the 'Junior' title by shifting mindset and accelerating career growth through proactive learning.
Honeycomb's CEO discusses the company's 'boring technology culture' philosophy, distinguishing between formal organizational structure and informal team dynamics.
An article discussing leadership in tech, challenging biases based on appearance by comparing two developers, and advocating for diversity in open-source communities.