A guide to developing better coding habits to improve code readability and maintainability for your future self and teammates.
A developer shares lessons from three years of tech blogging, emphasizing consistency, topic focus, and planning to build an audience and advance a career.
A metaphor using commandos, soldiers, and police to describe different career roles in tech startups and projects, focusing on risk and work style.
A reflection on the personal and professional benefits of being an open source maintainer, framed in the spirit of the Passover song 'Dayenu'.
A team lead shares their journey implementing pair programming, from initial struggles to successful adoption and the lessons learned about teamwork and code quality.
An introductory guide explaining what Git is, its purpose for version control, and the basics of commits for developers.
Introducing mdox, a CLI tool to automate and streamline software documentation processes, treating docs as code.
A personal review of the Surface Book 2 laptop, focusing on its suitability for programming and development work compared to other devices.
A tech professional shares lessons from college on running efficient meetings, focusing on agendas, roles, and timekeeping for better team collaboration.
Analyzes how developers without CS degrees got their first jobs, based on a survey of 450+ Twitter responses.
Tips for adapting to a sudden, non-ideal remote work setup at home, focusing on practical solutions for common challenges.
A programmer reflects on the importance of learning how to learn effectively in the fast-paced tech industry, discussing methods like learning by doing and spaced repetition.
A critical analysis of GitHub's new notifications UI, arguing it's a step backwards in usability and workflow efficiency for developers.
A founder reflects on the first year of Mergify, a GitHub automation tool for pull request management, merging, and CI integration.
Critiques common logging practices in software development, arguing for alternatives like type safety, error monitoring services, and business metrics.
A critique of how 'observability' is often incorrectly defined as just metrics, logs, and traces, explaining its true meaning from control theory.
Explores the concept of the heliopause in space as a metaphor for the C programming language's dominance and its ABI's role as a critical interface in software.
A critique of Scrum and agile methodologies, arguing for a healthier, trust-based approach to software development.
A developer introduces 'Sponsorware', a model where an open-source package is initially exclusive to GitHub sponsors before being fully open-sourced, leading to a significant income increase.
A guide on contributing to open-source projects using Git and GitHub, covering the process from finding a project to making a pull request.
