A monthly update on TinyPilot, a tech hardware project, covering revenue, product development challenges, and business bottlenecks.
A developer shares 9 key lessons learned from maintaining a large Vue.js codebase for 3 years, focusing on consistency, legacy code, and dependencies.
Explores the causes of legacy software and offers developer strategies to prevent codebases from becoming hard-to-maintain systems.
Explains why website performance should be treated as a permanent feature, not a one-time project, using analogies from elite sports and the YouTube Feather case study.
A developer's chart on career priorities goes viral, sparking discussion on the evolution from making code work to valuing readability and avoiding over-abstraction.
Discusses problem-solving philosophy in tech, advocating for avoiding problems entirely rather than patching them, using API versioning as an example.
A developer explains why they left a job due to stagnation, outdated tech, and lack of growth, critiquing high turnover as a company failure.
Article argues that code quality directly impacts user experience by enabling faster feature delivery and fewer bugs.
A developer discusses challenging management's demand for 100% test coverage, arguing it leads to meaningless tests and suggesting direct communication as a solution.
A satirical article about a town building a new, high-tech road that prioritizes cars and revenue over pedestrians and cyclists.
A critique of blindly following software development 'best practices', arguing for more thoughtful discussion and application.
The article argues for co-locating code comments with the relevant code, explaining the maintainability and clarity benefits over separate documentation files.
Argues against Friday deploy freezes, explaining how they create technical debt, hurt team productivity, and indicate a fear of deployment that should be fixed.
A speaker's reflections on PyTexas 2019, summarizing key talks on feature flag management and using mypy with ORMs.
A software developer's guide to maintaining codebases and tools, emphasizing addressing warnings and keeping dependencies updated.
A guide to creating effective performance budgets for web development, focusing on concrete metrics and team integration.
An article discussing the importance of fixing hidden technical debt and friction in software development, even when it's not immediately visible.
A guide on applying the 'focusing question' technique to identify the most valuable code refactoring tasks that will simplify current project work.
Analyzes three strategies companies use to innovate with cloud technology: born-in-cloud, startup acquisition, and creating centers of excellence.
A tech lead's role is to guide the team's future direction, not just write code. Focus on strategy, planning, and empowering engineers.
