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The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Entirely Understand - Reactor
It really should be acceptable and normal to say “I don’t entirely understand what I just read, but I loved it.”
taste testing cities
Against the Burden of Knowledge
Why the most intuitive explanation for ideas getting harder to find is wrong
The artist and the inner retreat
A call to quiet, plus this week's new releases
The Death of Work-Life Balance in Tech (And Why We Need to Revive It)
As a freelance software engineer with 25 years in the trenches of the tech industry, I’ve witnessed firsthand the slow, insidious death of…
The Grug Brained Developer
Growing from engineer to Staff engineer and thriving
Clear communication, empathy and good collaboration becomes very important!
How Stripe Built One of Silicon Valley’s Best Engineering Teams
Greg Brockman, the founding engineer at Stripe, talks about how to construct your hiring pipeline to maximize talent.
The Freelancer’s Guide to Time-Wasters, Cheapskates, and Nightmare Clients: A Cathartic Exposé
Alright, fellow freelancers, gather ‘round. Today, we’re diving deep into the cesspool of client interactions that make us question our…
The Hidden Costs of Over-Collaboration
In the wake of Agile’s success and the benefits it offers organizations to help them achieve faster delivery, happier customers, and more engaged teams, “Collaboration” has become…
Engineering is more about people than tech
Spoiler: I assumed that I would just code all day and that's it. Well, I was very wrong!
Make Every Software Project A Success With These Standards
A lot of software teams are struggling with the management of development projects and how to maintain their software over a longer period…
Meet Rachel Wolan, Webflow’s new CPO | Webflow Blog
Learn about our new CPO and what brought her to Webflow.
The senior engineer role
The 2016 is the 10th year I am working full time in the computer science field. Before that I had graduate school, a startup, an undergraduate degree, high school - always programming. My first progra
At 28, I Taught Myself to Be Likable. Here's How I Did It (Part 1)
My tips for pretending to seem like a fully functioning person when you have a weird brain.
How I Hire Programmers (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
Freelancers: Should You Show Up as You or a Company?
What to call your design business is one of the biggest questions freelance designers face. As a designer you are running a business, whether you have an LLC that clients write checks out to or not. But you are also a person who designs, and your reputation is likely tied to your first and last name. (Unless you’re so famous people only refer to you by one of them.)
Actually try on your job applications
It can be a pain to put in more effort on job applications, but it takes you further than you think.
Cal Newport, the man who never procrastinates
This Georgetown professor, podcaster, and best-selling author of ‘Deep Work’ and ‘So Good They Can’t Ignore You’ has the key to meeting goals and having free time. His personal success is proof that his techniques work
How and why we built our startup around small teams
Creating a startup of small teams can help you ship stupidly fast.
Tenacious curiosity in the lab can lead to a Nobel Prize – mRNA research exemplifies the unpredictable value of basic scientific research
The winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine made a discovery that helped create the COVID-19 vaccines. They couldn’t have anticipated the tremendous impact of their findings.
I am not a fan of heroism in the engineering industry
📈 Long-term good work 📉 short spikes of great work
The real 10x developer makes their whole team better - Stack Overflow
Writing for Software Engineers: Read Me First
Developers should share more of their knowledge with their peers. Follow this advice to overcome your anxieties and start blogging (or blog better).
20 Things I've Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer - Simple Thread
Important, Read This First You’re about to read a blog post with a lot of advice. Learning from those who came before us is instrumental to success, but we often forget an important caveat. Almost all advice is contextual, yet it is rarely delivered with any context. “You just need to charge more!” says the company […]
Ramen Profitability: What It Is & How To Get There - My Framer Site
The community, content & tools getting bootstrapped founders to ramen profitable, and beyond.
The Anatomy of a Successful Team Squad
What I Learned from My Recent Experiment with the Spotify Squad Model
Design Engineering at Vercel: What we do and how we do it – Vercel
Design Engineers at Vercel blend aesthetic sensibility with technical skills. Learn about Vercel's philosophy on what Design Engineering is and how we work.