Questions for our first 1:1 Originally posted Jul 19, 2016 In the last few years, I’ve had the pleasure of kicking off lots of new reporting relationships with both engineers and engineering managers.
I spend a lot of time obsessing about: 1) how to be a good manager, and 2) how to have any idea if I am doing a good job. So I was happy to discover First Break All The Rules (Amazon), because it cont
I live in the southeastern part of North Carolina, in a county that went for Trump. I’m one of those people who shouldn’t have been surprised but was. I had to leave town the morning after the electio
Credit: Flickr / Ivan It’s a truth universally acknowledged that 1:1s are one of the most important activities of being a manager. And yet we all know of managers who don’t do them, or do them so badl
Yurii Rashkovskii Follow Oct 30, 2016 · 4 min read E arlier this year, on a rainy night in Bangkok, I was attending a regular Hack Night event, and I just had to jump into somebody’s else conversation without an invitation. The guy I almost interrupted was describing the beauty and benefits of…
This is a guest post by Avi Flombaum. Avi is the Dean of The Flatiron School, an intensive program to learn Ruby on Rails in New York . He was formerly the co-founder and CTO at Designer Pages. You ca
Sign in Production Ready Archive Follow me on Twitter Mathias Lafeldt Sep 7, 2016 · 1 min read 👉 This article has moved and is now available here . Production Ready On building and running web systems, covering topics such as SRE, Chaos Engineering, and Systems Thinking. Systems Thinking…
It's no surprise that inequality in the U.S. is on the rise. But what you might not know is that math is partly to blame. In a new book, "Weapons of Math Destruction," Cathy O'Neil details all the way
Roli Saxena joined Clever last year to lead customer success. But in a turn of events all too common at growing startups, her role started to expand — and expand. Today, she’s running all of sales, st
One engineer’s personal experience, insight, and tips for how to work when you’re part of a pair. Published in Built to Adapt · 8 min read · Aug 26, 2016 -- I’ve been working at Pivotal Labs for over
A Reply to Robert Murphy’s ‘Have Anthropologists Overturned Menger? By David Graeber, who currently holds the position of Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths University London. Prior to this h
Over the past year, media reports and op-eds have examined the lead poisoning disaster in Flint, Michigan, from a variety of angles. Some focus on Michigan’s emergency manager laws , which the Republi
Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator . April 2001, rev. April 2003 (This article is derived from a talk given at the 2001 FranzDeveloper Symposium.) In the summer of 1995, my friend Rob
L ast March, my 71-year-old grandmother, Betty, waited in line for three hours to caucus for Bernie Sanders. The wait to be able to cast her first-ever vote in a primary election was punishing, but no
Tetra Images Data released by the FBI on Monday shows that 2015 was one of the safest years for U.S. law enforcement in recorded history, following a sustained trend of low numbers of on-duty deaths i
Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast *Warning—the following article contains a graphic depiction of a rape. Alex Smith and Jonas Dick considered themselves part of the elite. The two men
A few times a year, I like to read John Allspaw’s post On Being a Senior Engineer . If you haven’t read it yet (or recently), go do that. I’ll wait. I keep coming back to this post not only because I find it helpful to share with other people, such as in the course of a mentoring relationship with…
Nolan Lawson has written a great piece about progressive enhancement that brings up some fascinating points. An over-simplified summary would be: progressive enhancement doesn't mean it works without
There has recently been a lot of noise on the lists, and questions at conferences, about putting refactoring "stories" on the backlog. Even if "technical debt" has grown up, this is invariably an infe
2016-02-13 “Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C. Every line of code written comes at a price: main
Work at different management levels Originally posted Oct 17, 2016 I remember working as a developer at a company and complaining that I had no idea what the bosses did all day. It felt like while we
Published in Project Include · 5 min read · Sep 21, 2016 -- The Project Include team offsite selfie: Ellen Pao, Erica Joy Baker, Tracy Chou, Laura Gómez, Y-Vonne Hutchinson, Freada Kapor Klein, and be
pieterh wrote on 20 Sep 2016 20:38 Thirty-five years I've written code, a necromancer weaving spells to bring the dead to life. Hardware and electronics never held any charm for me. I've no love for c
It’s taken me 15 years in this industry to figure out how to be any good at what I do. I don’t know how to write it all down yet, but I’m going to give a piece of it away to you in the next 5 minutes.
4 min read · Sep 25, 2016 -- This week, the BBC announced the discovery of two “ethnically Chinese” skeletons at an ancient Roman burial site in England. Who were they? What drove them to the far end
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before… We’re a modern company and we’re blowing everything up. We don’t care how many hours your butt is in a seat, we care that your work gets done. Our policy is th
Introduction A while back I was researching the most efficient way to check if a number isprime. This lead me to find the following piece of code: public static boolean isPrime ( int n ) { return ! ne
Dear Fellow White People: The 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games have brought to my attention that some of us still don’t quite grasp what white privilege is. Or, even if we do feel like we get the concept, it
Many parents who grew up playing outdoors with friends, walking alone to the park or to school, and enjoying other moments of independent play are now raising children in a world with very different n
The Department of Justice today announced it will phase out its contracts with private prisons, calling the prisons unsafe, expensive, and ineffective in reducing recidivism. About 22,000 of 193,000 f
The following was written by Karla Monterroso, our VP of Programs. As we roll into the third round of unsatisfying numbers progress with tech companies, we are hearing three points issued over and ove
Inside the Conservative Push for States to Amend the Constitution A clause in Article 5 of the Constitution allows for states to sidestep Congress and draft amendments. Credit... Nick Oxford for The N
It was mid-March 1992, and Mark McCahill had never been to San Diego before. Back home in Minneapolis, the skies had been dumping snow for six months, and would keep at it for several more weeks. McCa
Published in Psychology of Stuff · 7 min read · Aug 1, 2016 -- In years to come, conversations will breathe new life into software — particularly the boring enterprise tools millions of knowledge work
5 min read · Mar 19, 2016 -- Before I became a programmer, I was a teacher. For the most part, I taught academic English to speakers of other languages at a University. Although I’ve switched careers,
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5 min read · Aug 2, 2016 -- Over the last 4–5 years I’ve had the amazing opportunity to mentor some even more amazing people. I want to share what I’ve learned. Mentoring comes in all shapes and sizes
Showing results for: By — New CircleCI now supports GitLab SaaS and self-managed code repositories. Connect now DevOps 101 See all What is a CI/CD pipeline? 5 min read CircleCI News See all Engineerin
Against line-chart liberalism Posted on January 24, 2014 All the buzz in the mediasphere this week has been about the just-announced departure of Washington Post wunderkind Ezra Klein from that storie
By Evan Klitzke Introduction The early architecture of Uber consisted of a monolithic backend application written in Python that used Postgres for data persistence. Since that time, the architecture of Uber has changed significantly, to a model of microservices and new data platforms. Specifically,…
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