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It's crazy that we go out of our way to design processes (code review, design review) to avoid actually just... working together? And then we design organizations that optimize for…

I’m a senior dev currently interviewing for a team lead position at a startup. While I consider myself highly technical, the things that frustrate me the most day-to-day are teamwo…

> I need to run tests, use goto definition and other editor navigation features, apply local changes to check if some things could have been written differently, look at the wider …

Very cool! Would be awesome to have something like this for more countries (maybe the entire European network)

This is so cool!

I made a pomodoro timer display using a WiFi-connected ESP32 board with a small OLED display. I put it outside the guest bedroom/home office door during lockdown so my family membe…

At my job, we're breaking down a monolith into services with a hand-me-down database schema. DB changes are manual, every dev runs against a shared test DB, and everybody dreads do…

I'm halfway through The Year of the Flood, loving the trilogy so far. This post also made me think of Toby and old Pilar.

Was going to recommend this too, one of the few biographies I have read cover to cover.

My first paid programming job was making a client for a remote monitoring solution for the water industry. I must have been 14 or 15. One of my father's acquaintances knew I had be…

I will check it out. I very much enjoyed his talks

Kleppmann's book is great, it will be well worth your time. I read it cover to cover. He takes care to be consistent and explicit regarding terminology, so it has helped me put a l…

I usually enjoy reading something thick and technical during my summer vacation, to learn something new and not necessarily work-related. This year, however, I am not sure which bo…

It seems web pages loaded at least as quickly in 1998 as in 2021

I think it is worth pointing out that the figures are from the US only. I wonder how this compares to the rest of the world.