A product manager shares twelve key responsibilities and daily activities based on their experience at GitHub, focusing on accountability, team leadership, and user advocacy.
A developer explains why using their personal website as a live testing playground for new techniques and optimizations is a valuable learning tool.
A PowerShell script to automate starting or stopping all WebApps in an Azure subscription, using Azure Automation runbooks.
A nostalgic guide to installing a TCP/IP stack on Windows for Workgroups 3.11 to enable internet connectivity on the 1993-era OS.
A guide for open source maintainers on how to gracefully close or reject unwanted pull requests and patch submissions.
A guide on migrating DNS management to Microsoft Azure DNS, covering setup, benefits, and technical details for improved reliability and performance.
Explains how to compute the Huber/White sandwich estimator incrementally in R's biglm package for large-scale linear regression.
A developer explores parallel computing by writing a Go program to brute-force crack the WWII Enigma cipher, inspired by Alan Turing's work.
A developer shares surprising Laravel features and techniques discovered while writing the book 'Laravel: Up and Running'.
Announcement and feature breakdown of SQL Server 2016 general availability, highlighting new security, performance, and edition-specific capabilities.
A guide to using VSTS Vault, a Windows service for backing up Git repositories from Visual Studio Team Services to a local machine.
Mike Ash announces a hiatus from regular blog posts to focus on completing his book, 'The Complete Friday Q&A: Volume II'.
Argues that web accessibility benefits all users, not just those with disabilities, and improves business outcomes by reaching a wider audience.
Explores the 'Functional Core, Reactive Shell' software architecture pattern, contrasting it with spaghetti and lasagna code to improve testability.
Discusses operational best practices and ownership in serverless architecture, emphasizing responsibility despite outsourcing.
A critique of the "NoOps" mindset, arguing that operational excellence is a shared responsibility, not a role, in modern software development.
A developer shares his experience of inspiring 40 teenagers to start programming through a motivational session at a London college.
Introducing Multirange, a lightweight polyfill for HTML5.1 two-handle sliders, enabling dual-thumb range inputs in web browsers.
An overview of Prometheus for application metrics, covering its architecture, query language, and monitoring philosophy.
A tutorial on creating a Facebook Messenger bot for Product Hunt using the Messenger API and Botkit framework.
