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A few months ago I was debugging a similar issue in a Go-based service layer, where frequent HTTP requests to the same domain kept making fresh TCP connections when I was expecting…

Pair programming! Get hands-on with your junior engineers and their development process. Push them to think through things and not just ask the LLM everything.

I hoped this might be like an externalization of g3doc. Nope. Instead, I started reading through one of their highlighted examples --- the Go repo ( https://codewiki.google/github.…

Sure, that's advised in interviews, where you're about to make a decision on someone's livelihood, hence the importance of reducing bias. That's a completely different context than…

I recently took 10 months off before my current gig. I did little to no coding, mostly just recovering from burnout and doing some side fun stuff. No one batted an eye about the br…

I had the fortune of taking Erdmann's Python class at the University of Arizona 15 years ago --- a Python/Pylab/data engineering class aimed at materials science engineering studen…

I spent a few years building OpenAPI-related tools at Google, collaborating with Apigee. One of the "open secrets" about OpenAPI's history was how Smartbear spun out the OpenAPI sp…

Engineering lead/manager looking for engineering leadership roles. Ex-Google (Staff SWE), have managed teams and orgs from 20 to 140 engineers. Looking for anything from managing a…

+1. The comments bashing Closure in comparison to TypeScript feel like they're missing the timeline. Closure brought modules, requires, compile-time type checking and optimizations…

There are also government contractors who often pair with USDS doing this kind of work! Ad Hoc (my employer), Nava, Civic Actions, etc. are all part of a new generation of companie…

I happened to join Oink just before it fell over, and when it went down I managed to find some of the former members on a forum saying "hey, let's go build a replacement right away…

It sounds like you're assuming "managing up" is about managers who don't know how to do their job. I don't think this article is saying that. My best managers weren't ones who knew…

Yep. google.com homepage is giving me 502s. It's been a looooong time :-o edit: aaaand it's back

I've enjoyed YNAB a lot for budgeting and been using it for the last 3 years now. Works very well with my spreadsheet brain. It's got solid APIs if you want to do your own add-ons …

It's a real problem. I've got a friend who went through the Code Fellows program last year. They advertise 93% job placement within six months. Based on conversations we had throug…

This one's the real answer (or at least a substantial part of it). On VA.gov, the USWDS components (and their composition into a modular forms system) was a large part of making su…

This has been a little tricky to confirm, but I'm getting 100% ping packet loss to 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4,4, and https://isup.me/dns.google confirms the site is down.

In doing so, you're betting that _you_ can grow your money faster than organizations you give it to can make impact on their communities. Helping people who need it _now_ rather th…

Ad Hoc | Frontend, backend, infra / DevOps engineering | REMOTE (within USA) | Full-time | US Citizenship required Ad Hoc is trying to make federal government better by fixing its …

Ad Hoc | Frontend, backend, infra / DevOps engineering | REMOTE (within USA) | Full-time | US Citizenship required Ad Hoc is trying to make federal government better by fixing its …

Yep, good guess, thanks for noticing. Added to the post.

Ad Hoc | Frontend, backend, infra / DevOps engineering | REMOTE (within USA) | Full-time | US Citizenship required Ad Hoc is trying to make federal government better by fixing its …

I replied to your other comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25975825 about that exact question! One weird thing we've discovered working on VA.gov for the last five yea…