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Thinking, Fast and Slow book. Read 14,814 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahn...

Angel book. Read 253 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. One of Silicon Valley’s most successful angel investors shares his rules for...

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JavaScript book. Read 544 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Most programming languages contain good and bad parts, but JavaScript h...

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I’ve been using Go for a few years now, mostly in my open source project Lazygit. In my day job I use Ruby and Typescript, and I’ve also spent some time with Rust. Each of those languages have design quirks that can grind a developer’s gears, and although my own precious gears have been ground by every language I’ve used, Go is the only language that has made me feel indignant.

Listen to this episode from Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers on Spotify. Joel Spolsky on founding Stack Overflow, “land grabs” vs. “bootstrapping with profitability”, raising more money using “proof points”, what developers and companies get massively wrong, choosing your next job, and how to ask and answer on Stack Over

Listen to this episode from Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers on Spotify. Motivation comes through relationships, safety, and environments which allow everyone to contribute.

This article is about a few quick thumb rules I use when writing shell scripts that I’ve come to appreciate over the years. Very opinionated....

This blog post is adapted from a lightning talk I gave at the Boston Golang meetup in December of 2015. For a while, it seemed like everyone was crazy for microservices. You couldn’t open up your favorite news aggregator of choice without some company you had never heard of touting how the move t

We applied six times trying to get into Y Combinator.

And other lessons learned from creating a popular open-source project (JSON5)

To make sense of all the contradictory info on Google & Facebook hiring freezes, we surveyed hundreds of engineers who are interviewing there right now.

What do we actually know about burnout? What does the research say? Is burnout prevention possible? All the research, in one free, constantly updated book.

The Heroku HTTP API Design Guide, forked to look more like its original pre-GitBook state with a more easily digestible single-page format. - GitHub - brandur/heroku-http-api-design: The Heroku HTT...

In this post we'll cover one of the topics we get asked about the most: guaranteeing webhook ordering.

The Facebook Field Guide to Machine Learning is a six-part video series developed by the Facebook ads machine learning team....

Let’s make 2021... fast! An annual front-end performance checklist, with everything you need to know to create fast experiences on the web today, from metrics to tooling and CSS/JavaScript techniques.

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 star…

Some of my favorite practices and ideas from almost four years at Heroku.