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fantastic, thanks!

Out of curiosity, are there Linux tools to go from binary files to audio and back again? i.e `cat archive.zip | faxify -wav > archive.zip.wav`

Thanks for the reply, I'm also a big fan of documentation living inside the repo. I appreciate the framework you describe for the readme as well. Similar to _kb's sibling comment, …

Thanks for this link, I agree, that is a fantastic framework for documenting software. The idea that a reader of a piece of documentation is approaching it with a particular goal i…

The symptoms we experience are: - not capturing key information, often because the challenge of finding a place makes a project out of a task which then gets dropped, - capturing t…

Documentation is only good if you can find it again when you need it. Does anyone have a good pattern for documenting the things the team will need to have to build and deploy work…

Interesting. I would say that John didn't build a solution that met all of the use cases that the business needed. * To ensure accuracy of transactions, he should have built report…

Thank you for the tips!

I am a professional software engineer who has spent most of his 20-year, post-college career in interpreted languages. As much as I love never having to think about pointers or thr…

Dealing with faults is easy: read the stack trace and stop doing what shouldn't be happening. But what about errors where something should be happening but isn't? For example, I mi…

I appreciate this: > In general, reviewers should favor approving a CL once it is in a state where it definitely improves the overall code health of the system being worked on, eve…

What tends to be the first indication of breaches? It's one thing to do a forensic analysis after learning of a breach, and it's another to detect it in the first place.

I'm working in a vanilla PHP codebase right now, and I see all sides - the fractal design fails and the surprising improvements to the language. I've just read up on the architectu…

til! Most of my experience with large, single-repository projects are just plain monoliths. The design goal we strive for tends to be the microservice architecture, assuming that i…

Quite a premise: "Giant monolithic source-code repositories are one of the fundamental pillars of the back end infrastructure in large and fast-paced software companies."

Interesting. Are you going with an established project management framework or introducing practices gradually? I agree with you about the value of training... adopting these pract…

Worth noting that I find the flow state far easier to enter at different times in the day. Between around 2:30 to 4:30, I find it very easy to immerse in a task, to the point where…

It seems natural that a startup with a small team forego traditional project management in favor of delivering the product. However, at a certain scale, project management componen…

Nice reference! Does anyone have similar references for doing 0-downtime migrations? For example, building your indexes with CONCURRENTLY to prevent table locking.

Some great tips and tactics here. I think it's worth describing the end-state you might be shooting for which those tactics can help with. From what I'm reading, I think you're loo…

Fantastic! Thanks!

Good point. Dimensional analysis is a great "space" to traverse to get answers. It's a great grounding for your thinking, in addition to helping you get to within the right order o…

Any resources for learning the Fermi estimation techniques listed there? Seems like a collection of complementary skills, each of which could be improved: memorizing useful facts, …

You could also try the Getting Things Done approach to todo lists, particularly project-specific lists and only writing items that are the next actionable items. With both Pomodoro…