An introduction to the Django Riffs podcast, a beginner-friendly educational series for learning web development with the Django framework.
A developer shares the highest-ROI tip for productivity: improving collaboration with product and design teams to boost velocity.
A developer shares personal experience with burnout and offers advice on maintaining work-life balance and mental health in the tech industry.
An analysis of why the SaaS 'College Conductor' failed after three years, detailing the technical and business lessons learned.
A software developer shares their personal experience with remote work, debunking common myths and explaining their flexible office routine.
Exploring the role of a senior developer beyond coding, focusing on impact, mentorship, and business context.
Argues that overly clever code is harmful in production environments, using Project Euler examples to contrast with maintainable code.
An open source developer draws parallels between community building in software and neighborhood revitalization, emphasizing kindness and proactive effort.
A developer's guide to avoiding premature abstraction by prototyping, shipping, and then refining code for better results.
Exploring the advantages and challenges of adopting new technologies like Apollo & GraphQL, using a real-world case study from CodePen.
A guide to creating the content and slides for a tech talk, focusing on top-down and bottom-up approaches to building a presentation.
A blog post about overcoming perfectionism in writing and the benefits of publishing work before it feels 'perfect'.
The article argues for co-locating code comments with the relevant code, explaining the maintainability and clarity benefits over separate documentation files.
A developer argues that well-run business meetings are crucial for software teams, distinguishing them from wasteful gatherings.
A developer shares key lessons from 7 years in the industry, focusing on communication, business context, and team dynamics over pure technical skills.
A speaker's reflections on PyTexas 2019, summarizing key talks on feature flag management and using mypy with ORMs.
Explores the AHA (Avoid Hasty Abstraction) principle for writing maintainable tests, contrasting it with overly abstract and non-abstract approaches.
A developer's journey from a novel idea to launching an open-source project, and the unexpected feedback it receives.
An introduction to Python testing using pytest, covering the basics and providing resources from a Python Frederick talk.
A beginner's guide to starting programming by focusing on solving a personal problem rather than just learning code syntax.
