http://www.coglib.com/~icordasc/blog/2015/11/corporations-and-oss-do-not-mix.html

http://philcalcado.com/2016/03/15/on_asking_job_candidates_to_code.html

One of the most common pieces of advice you'll get as a startup is this: Only hire the best. The quality of the people that work at your company will be one of the biggest factors in your success – or failure. I've heard this advice over and over and over at startup events, to the point that I got a…

http://solveforinteresting.com/inbox-is-the-trojan-horse-for-your-personal-ai/

I’ve spent the last few years rather flippantly stating, “Technical debt doesn’t exist.” What I was trying to say was, “I’m deeply uncomfortable with how our industry talks about this thing, I think it’s probably harmful, but I don’t know quite how to express what I mean. Also, given that everyone…

http://danluu.com/wat/

http://jvns.ca/blog/2015/12/30/do-the-math-on-your-stock-options/

Idle Words > Talks > Website Obesity This is the text version of a talk I gave on October 29, 2015, at the Web Directions conference in Sydney. [ 53 minute video ]. The Crisis Fake Fixes Fat Ads Fat Assets Chickenshit Minimalism Interface Sprawl Heavy Clouds Stirring Conclusion Let me start by…

http://yosefk.com/blog/people-can-read-their-managers-mind.html

In the United States, in 1920, the manufacture, sale, and importation of alcoholic beverages was prohibited by a constitutional amendment. That amendment was repealed thirteen years later. During that period of prohibition, the beer industry died. In 1933, when prohibition was lifted, a few giant…

December 12, 2015 ...Learn TDD with Codemanship The "Just F**king Do It" Manifesto I've noticed there's a new manifesto doing the rounds on social media. Well, not so much a new manifesto as a reaffirmation of one part of an old manifesto. The "12th principlists", as they're calling themselves, are…

http://samnewman.io/patterns/architectural/bff/

Something that I’ve noticed in the software industry is that many people will, at one point, state that they have no interest in becoming managers, only to reach out for the positions a few years later. Now that I’m in my 30s, I see why this is the case, and I can explain it. Venkatesh Rao’s…

http://laughingmeme.org/2015/08/31/five-years-building-a-culture-and-handing-it-off/?utm_source=Software+Lead+Weekly&utm_campaign=542d58ad7b-SWLW_145&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_efe3d3cd5b-542d58ad7b-198271837

The other day, I found myself in a conversation about what made a person a great programmer, and figured this is something I should strive to understand. I’d like to think that I'm a good programmer, and understanding what the path to greatness looks like could help me walk it. So, over the next few…

We work in a strange industry. There is a much higher need for developers than can be satisfied by new developers coming into the field. This is a problem that has existed for years, and it is getting worse as time goes on. We have a serious shortage of talent to meet the demand, but our industry is…