Patricia Torvalds isn't the Torvalds name that pops up in Linux and open source circles. Yet. At 18, Patricia is a feminist with a growing list of tech achievements, open source industry experience, a
Last week, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, asked me to come and see a project he has been working on almost as long as the web itself. It’s a crisp autumn day in Boston, where Berners
2018 Tekin Süleyman download In one timeline a quick path to clarity. In the other a long and painful journey trying to understand the obscure intent of a line of code. The only difference between the
Welcome to Monday Methods! Today's post will be a bit longer than previous posts because of the topic: Holocaust Denial and how to combat it. It's a rather specific topic but in recent weeks, we have
Key Takeaways Time waste is often caused by these 5 “time thieves”: too much WIP, unknown dependencies, unplanned work, neglected work and conflicting priorities The first step to improve flow is to m
Modern capitalism raises the flag of the free market while pitting centrally planned organizations against each other 11 min read · Apr 10, 2018 -- Photo by Jakub Gorajek on Unsplash I t’s been quite
Before the term “information technology” existed to label the field, learning COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) was the only sure way to ensure a lifelong career in IT. Developed in 1959 in pa
Redis is the often unspoken workhorse of production. It’snot often used as a primary data store, but it has a sweetspot in storing and accessing ephemeral data whose loss canbe tolerated – metrics, se
Lately I’ve been doing some career counseling for people off Twitter (long story). The central drama for many people goes something like this: “I’m a senior engineer, but I’m thinking about being a ma
Photo: Minecraft How to Raise a Boy is a weeklong series centered around this urgent question in the era of Parkland, President Trump, and #MeToo. My dad left us when I was 2, owing to a drug habit he
In this article, perhaps the first in a mini-series, I want to explain the concepts of streams and tables in stream processing and, specifically, in Apache Kafka. Hopefully, you will walk away with bo
Over the last few years, static type checkers have become available for populardynamic languages like PHP ( Hack ) and JavaScript( Flow and TypeScript ), and have seen wide adoption. Twoyears ago, a p
Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, was in Nigeria last week, and he publicly gave its leaders some tough talk in a highly unusual move. The tech billionaire addressed a special session of the National Eco
Recently I spoke at the Pipeline Conference in London . I gave a talk on “Optimising Continuous Delivery” to a bunch of people who were self-selected as interested in Continuous Delivery, most of them
4 min read · Apr 8, 2018 -- Cool scars 4eva. Here’s what it feels like when I have a seizure: I start hearing a woman’s voice. Sometimes it’s an elderly Russian woman, sometimes it’s a younger woman,
I feel like an idiot while doing my job. A lot. Now there’s a damn good chance I’m actually an idiot, but the self-respecting part of me wants to challenge that notion. When I get stuck on a task or a
I n 1999, the acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai released Kadosh . Internationally screened and widely praised, it was one of the first Israeli films set entirely within the country’s ultra-Orthod
After nearly thirty hours of flying through three airports and a four-hour drive down bumpy dirt roads, our product team made it from our office in San Francisco to Rwibaale, the rural community in we
A common question we hear is “How do I use Clojure for real?” Not the language basics, but the practicalities of building software – questions like how to structure the project file tree and namespace
In 2013, Jason Kottke wrote a prediction for Nieman Lab’s year-end roundup: “ The blog is dead, long live the blog. ” Kottke was then (and still is) owner of one of the longest continuously running bl
The Twelve-Factor App methodology is twelve best practices for building modern, cloud-native applications. With guidance on things like configuration, deployment, runtime, and multiple service communi
Published in NYT Open · 10 min read · Jan 26, 2018 -- This is the first in a series where New York Times CTO, Nick Rockwell, talks to leaders in the technology world about their work. Rockwell intervi
Image by Local 217 Stamford By Aiden Pink February 13, 2018 Annual weekend retreats at resorts or hotels, known as shabbatons, are staples of Jewish organizations’ calendars, where members learn, pray
Between 2014 and 2016 my working life went through a lot of changes but the worst one was the normalization of slack. Managers like it because it ‘gets things down on paper’, ‘improves reachability’,
“I didn’t know that people could be bigoted, even as they were smiling at you.” Hasan Minaj delivers this powerful line in his new special, Homecoming King . He tells the story of a white family who b
In December 2015, I wrote a story about the potential uses of the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR. That piece, based on a conference that I attended in Washington, D.C., quoted six men and one
This is a brief aside from my ongoing series about avoiding entityservices. An interesting dinner conversation led to thoughts that Ineeded to write down. Amdahl's Law In 1967, Gene Amdahl presented a
6 Subtle Ways You Might Discriminate During Résumé Review 7 min read · Jan 10, 2018 -- An unfortunate truth of hiring is that reviewing a résumé is a process riddled with bias . It’s ruled by opinion
Marijuana from Green Sativa. The small burgundy satchel bore the hallmarks of rugged craftsmanship: top-grain leather, double stitching on the straps. It was wider at the bottom, sort of like an inverted funnel, and two buckles secured the flap. Babak Behzadzadeh knew exactly how he might use the…
Robert Mueller is not impressed. Alex Wong/Getty Images Part of Understanding the Trump era Over at the Gothamist, Jake Offenhartz has an astounding and richly symbolic story about the latest bit of “
At tonight's Glamour Women of the Year Awards , Goldie Hawn presented Reese Witherspoon with an award for her work creating stronger roles for women in film. The superstar's speech was so inspiring an
7th July 2017 My answer to How to kumbaya with the remote team? on Ask MetaFilter Here’s a low-tech, high-impact trick I recently learned at work that’s amazingly useful: create a doc-of-docs. This is
Ben Thompson writes a reasonable-sounding yet largely wrong defence of the proposal to reclassify ISPs under Title I instead of Title II, beginning with a smart debunking of that Portuguese cellular p
As a company, Meetup has long embraced its position as a small, mission-driven operation. While other social software companies from the Web 2.0 era, such as Facebook and LinkedIn, focused on keeping
Why Agile Isn’t Working and What We Do Differently UPDATE: We’ve written an entire book on this topic! Read it online: Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work That Matters . Agile started off
Pacific Press/Getty Images Feedback is crucial for learning and improving, but it’s rarely fun to be on the receiving end of it when it’s critical. Many people have a negative reaction to feedback, es
AllVoices Follow Nov 14, 2017 · 3 min read I grew up in a family of leaders who fought hard to give people a voice. My father is a legal aid lawyer who spent his career fighting for the rights of migr