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Asking questions and paying attention. "How this works", "why that", "why now", "what if". Most people like to share. They feel validated and are genuinely happy to tell you why th…

"Ownership" always brings the debate about compensation and workload. "Im not the owner, im not earning like one, why would i have ownership?". They all miss the point. Having "own…

Been there, done that. For me it was mostly measuring me with the wrong metric. We've been taught the whole career about deliverables, etc. When you become a manager, the metric is…

The fact that you are here, asking about how to do better is already a very good sign. Congrats. You may feel like not adding much value because you may be measuring yourself by th…

The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz and Ray Dalio's Principles can give you very good ideas.

Ive always though about something like a project planning. They have to submit the project (proposals) before election and once elected, update their status, giving feedback later.…

Yes, it happens to me also. Sometimes is just frustrating. :/

Most of the projects uses docker, which i use to develop my own projects anyway, so, i dont need to install different dependencies or make my own pc as anything else. I just use it…

As a dev and company owner, i would say its optional. Ive always like to use my own devices, most of the time. Sometimes i receive some money because of that, but it was just a bon…

Every customer we have in my company asks for estimation and dates. Even explaining them that we do not know their domain yet, that thinks changes with time, they seens fixed about…

To be fair, i didnt even thought about HN API. I was doing some tests to learn about the desktop notifications and did the "fast way". Anyway, you will have to read it all but it c…

Hey man! https://gist.github.com/pedrofornaza/6b71569972de0e2bfa3c775... I did this sometime ago. Its probabbly not working 100% but may help you. :) Its as script to run on backgr…

With this, i will probabbly not access hacker news again haha. Your list is basically what i search for in here. Keep the good job :)

I dont think its a good idea discuss what frameworks to use. I usually choose the better framework FOR MY PROBLEM. If i need something lightweight, or reliability, performance, etc…

What you do in your job? What is kick ass for you? We can do a lot of things to kick ass. For kicking ass on the job, the first one for me is know what are you doing and why. The s…