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Framing: The 1 most important communication concept every software engineer must know
Framing: The 1 most important communication concept every software engineer must know
When you discuss your promotion with your manager, how do you bring it up? What about when you tell a story in an interview? Or give feedback to a coworker? In each of these situations, our intuition often lies. Our intuition tells us things like: If I just tell my manager how much work I’ve done, he’ll appreciate me.
·careercutler.substack.com·
Framing: The 1 most important communication concept every software engineer must know
Archive Your Old Projects
Archive Your Old Projects
In this post I describe how I wish I had archived all my old projects and my approach going forward.
·arne.me·
Archive Your Old Projects
A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft
A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft
Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain. Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it.
·newyorker.com·
A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft
Tragedy of Return to Hostile Offices - Benji's Blog
Tragedy of Return to Hostile Offices - Benji's Blog
Don't suffer and merely survive, aided by your noise cancelling headphones. Optimising for individual happiness can result in less of the joy that people find in teams that achieve great things together.
·benjiweber.co.uk·
Tragedy of Return to Hostile Offices - Benji's Blog
The Architecture Behind A One-Person Tech Startup
The Architecture Behind A One-Person Tech Startup
As grandiose as the title of this article might sound, I should clarify we’re talking about a low-stress, one-person company that I run from my flat here in Germany.
·anthonynsimon.com·
The Architecture Behind A One-Person Tech Startup
Benchmarking.
Benchmarking.
Many of the most important questions for running an organization don’t have clear answers. In most engineering organizations, both the teams working on infrastructure and the teams working on product feel they are undersized. It’s also true that most individuals feel they are undercompensated. In the boom times, there is often enough investor money laying around to say yes to all these questions, but many leaders are acutely learning the long-term costs of expanding our budget too far.
·lethain.com·
Benchmarking.
Effective Engineering Teams
Effective Engineering Teams
tl;dr: Google research found that psychological safety is the most important dynamic for an effective team. This was alongside other dynamics like dependabil...
·addyosmani.com·
Effective Engineering Teams
Your Small Imprecise Ask Is a Big Waste of Their Time
Your Small Imprecise Ask Is a Big Waste of Their Time
When managers and leaders don't specify the expected time investment of an ask, the time that is invested is almost never what was intended.
·staysaasy.com·
Your Small Imprecise Ask Is a Big Waste of Their Time
Scaling standards and community in your organization
Scaling standards and community in your organization
Learn how to apply open source community ideas to your organization to spread standards and best practices without sacrificing autonomy and innovation.
·github.com·
Scaling standards and community in your organization
Web developers: remarkably untalented and careless?
Web developers: remarkably untalented and careless?
This passage here from John Gruber’s review of some new macs struck me in particular: Web browser rendering is surprisingly resource-intensive — partially because modern HTML, CSS, and Javascript are remarkably complex, and partially because most web developers are remarkably untalented and careless programmers
·baldurbjarnason.com·
Web developers: remarkably untalented and careless?
First Time Tech Conference: Things You Need to Know
First Time Tech Conference: Things You Need to Know
In less than a week, I am taking a group of "soon to be" CodeCrew Code School graduates to BitCON in Nashville, TN. While I am excited that this will be an exhilarating, educational, and transformative experience, it hit hard this morning that it will be their first time at a Tech Conference. For aspiring junior software engineers, these events are crucial platforms to network, learn, and jumpstart their careers. However, navigating the hustle and bustle of a tech conference can be overwhelming
·audreypwillis.com·
First Time Tech Conference: Things You Need to Know
Unpopular Opinion: It’s harder than ever to be a good software engineer
Unpopular Opinion: It’s harder than ever to be a good software engineer
Working in a startup environment for almost a decade has given me privileged access to a fast-paced culture of innovation, exploration, and a fail-fast approach. I followed the standard progression ladder: intern, junior, mid, senior, and eventually ...
·juraj.hashnode.dev·
Unpopular Opinion: It’s harder than ever to be a good software engineer
A Web Designer’s Secrets to Longevity
A Web Designer’s Secrets to Longevity
Being a web designer for 25+ years is hard to fathom. So much has changed, and achieving longevity in web design is really not easy.
·speckyboy.com·
A Web Designer’s Secrets to Longevity
Hacking ADHD - Strategies for the Modern Developer | Ledger
Hacking ADHD - Strategies for the Modern Developer | Ledger
Introduction After struggling a lot with my mental health (anxiety, depressive condition) for several years, I was diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, commonly known as ADHD, at the age of 44. This diagnosis shocked me a lot: I wasn’t a wild child, in fact, I was even a good pupil. With the help of my therapist, […]
·ledger.com·
Hacking ADHD - Strategies for the Modern Developer | Ledger
Getting the most out of your Software Architects
Getting the most out of your Software Architects
Architects can save you tons of time, and prevent crucial mistakes from happening. They are very experienced software engineers, who have seen it all. * This applies to any cross-team Senior+ engineers you have. They can be called Architects/Staff/Principal engineers - in each organization it’s different.
·zaidesanton.substack.com·
Getting the most out of your Software Architects
The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections
The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections
What do Honeywell, IBM, and Pfizer have in common? Employees with strong professional networks. A study of 2 billion employee relationships on LinkedIn probes the power of such connections—and potential benefits for companies. Research by Frank Nagle.
·hbswk.hbs.edu·
The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections
Don't Build a Mine Before You Struck Gold
Don't Build a Mine Before You Struck Gold
The best analogy I’ve heard for startups is that they’re like looking for gold. Not because of the adventure, or the camaraderie, or the riches awaiting you on the other end. But because a gold-seeking expedition has two very different phases: first, you look for gold; then, you
·flocrivello.com·
Don't Build a Mine Before You Struck Gold
UX Designers’ Burnout: How to Deal with It?
UX Designers’ Burnout: How to Deal with It?
Working in the same field for several years is hard, and I still need to learn what burnout is. It’s more than just a lack of desire to do…
·uxplanet.org·
UX Designers’ Burnout: How to Deal with It?