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Big-A and little-a agile
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12/1/2023
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"We Do Agile." Are we using?
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management
leadership
development
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Squeezing the Feedback Loop
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10/23/2023
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Tighter feedback loops make for happier employees and faster value delivery.
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management
leadership
development
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Does Software Even Need Managers?
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9/27/2023
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The role of the tech-industry manager is changing, and leading companies are going without. Do managers still have a place in the organizational landscape?
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management
development
leadership
essay
|
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Choosing the Right Database for Your Startup
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2/5/2022
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A database is one of the most critical decisions a technology startup will make. Here's how to get it less wrong.
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development
startups
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A Toy Algorithm
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4/6/2020
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Toys beguile and entertain through their resemblance to some real thing. Yet playing with them is instructive for the truths they reveal about larger, not-toy concepts.
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development
algorithms
|
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Principles of High-Value Software Testing
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11/5/2019
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Tests secure the value that software creates. Here are practical principles for getting the most from them.
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development
testing
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Baking loves static types
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5/29/2019
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Working in languages like JavaScript, Python, or Ruby, you get a little tired
of your colleagues...
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development
process
|
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Is TypeScript worth it? Making the case to your team
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5/18/2019
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Here's a letter to share with your manager, your team, or the developer across the way at the pub.
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development
typescript
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Cheatsheet: Analyzing Data from the UNIX Command Line
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5/11/2019
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Here's a scarcely-comprehensive list of tools for parsing, transforming, and formatting data from the command line.
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development
bash
jq
|
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On Demand, but When?
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5/4/2019
|
The long, steady march towards managed infrastructure is
fantastic. Less time configuring...
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development
|
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Damage Control in Distributed Systems
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4/24/2019
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Grid operators, systems thinkers, and grey-beard sysadmins will tell you: systems are hard.
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development
typescript
howto
|
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The Web Developer's Guide to DNS
|
4/8/2019
|
Every developer should know the basics of DNS, the critical protocol at the heart of the web.
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development
dns
protocols
|
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7 Commandments for Event-Driven Architecture
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3/9/2019
|
The critical rules to keep in mind when designing an event-driven architecture
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development
microservices
serverless
|
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Don’t Do Crazy: A Programming Lesson from the Shipping Industry
|
2/24/2019
|
What’s the best way to move cargo the “last mile” from a lumbering, seagoing behemoth to your door?
|
development
philosophy
|
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React is Changing How We Think, Again
|
2/10/2019
|
React reinvented how interfaces are built. Where does the future lead?
|
essays
development
react
|
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Software's Code Problem
|
1/13/2019
|
The industry's mystique is misguided.
|
development
philosophy
essays
|
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A day in the life of a Software Developer
|
1/5/2019
|
Chatting about the wide and woolly world of software development with a high
school honor society ...
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development
philosophy
|
|
Simple Tools
|
10/28/2018
|
Does the benefit in a specialized tool outweigh the time to learn it?
|
development
|
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Why it's Worth Learning Go
|
9/5/2018
|
Go is a simple, robust programming language that deserves a look from novices and veterans alike. Here's why.
|
essay
development
golang
|
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Specialization
|
8/7/2018
|
Do one thing and do it well. But in web development?
|
development
|
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Five Better Ways to Comment Code
|
4/13/2018
|
Comments just sit there—why not put them to work instead?
|
development
process
|
|
Should You Finally Learn How to Program?
|
4/4/2018
|
You could take up baking to nourish your body, or physics to nourish your mind. Either is worth learning if it interests you. But programming?
|
development
|
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The Skeptical Developer
|
3/14/2018
|
What do epidemiologists and programmers have in common?
|
development
essays
|
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Mocking HTTPS Services in Node.js for Fun and Profit
|
2/11/2018
|
Mocks can simplify testing of 3rd-party services, but not when someone else owns the TLS keys. Here's how to work around it.
|
development
process
|
|
This is the Month to Learn File Streams
|
1/29/2018
|
Streams provide a radically simple interface for many of Unix's best-loved utilities. Learning to use may even inspire simpler interfaces of your own!
|
learn-one-thing
development
linux
bash
|
|
Node.js Module Patterns
|
1/19/2018
|
Never mind dependency injection, factories, singletons, or service providers: in node.js, it all comes down to the module pattern.
|
development
node
javascript
|
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So You Think You're Programming?
|
1/14/2018
|
We software developers tend to imagine our job is programming. Coffee in. Code out. Dev in the middle.
|
development
process
|
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Thinking in Types
|
12/3/2017
|
Even in weakly-typed languages, consistent typing can yield better code. Here's how to start thinking in types..
|
development
typescript
|
|
This is the Month to Learn Application Logging
|
12/1/2017
|
Logs shine light on the dark corners of an application, revealing smoke before production can burst into flames.
|
learn-one-thing
development
process
ops
|
|
Any Color You Like
|
11/16/2017
|
Declarative interfaces can stop complexity in its tracks—but only if their prescription fits the problem at hand.
|
development
process
|
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code2png
|
11/6/2017
|
Create beautiful snapshots of code from the comfort of the command line
|
development
projects
node
|
|
This is the Month to Learn Git
|
10/29/2017
|
System of record, automation tool, and the ultimate undo button for bad ideas. There's no better time to _really_ learn git.
|
learn-one-thing
development
process
git
|
|
You're Still Using jQuery?
|
10/28/2017
|
“You’re still using jQuery?” Incredulity: the byword of a bygone era. An
anachronism from the bad...
|
essays
development
jquery
|
|
There's Always a Customer
|
6/3/2017
|
Everyone wins when we stop treating tools as 'internal-only'.
|
development
process
essays
|
|
How to Ruin Code Review
|
6/17/2016
|
Ten guaranteed strategies for raining misery down on code review
|
howto
process
development
|
|
That's Technical Debt
|
6/12/2016
|
Technical debt. Can't outrun it, can't run without it. Here's how to keep it under control.
|
development
process
essays
product
|
|
The Best Code You'll Never Write
|
6/6/2016
|
No development is often the best development of all
|
development
philosophy
|
|
Evolution Over Revolution
|
2/6/2016
|
What every product team can learn from Porsche
|
development
process
essays
|
|
The Documentation You've Been Looking For
|
5/12/2015
|
If we don't want prose, and we can't tell our complete story with code alone, it's time to consider our supplemental documentation.
|
development
process
essays
|
|
Exception handling in node.js
|
1/16/2015
|
The ins and outs of asynchronous exception handling
|
development
javascript
|
|
JavaScript is swallowing your errors
|
1/15/2015
|
Who ships a language with error-handling optional?
|
development
javascript
|