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I worked at tech-team-of-one startups for years. Now I'm working at a big organisation. In the last sprint, I chalked up 41 story points. The rest of the team (3 other devs and a m…

Silence. As much silence as possible. I want to drown in it.

I think it's a combination of: - Build assumptions about down time into your pricing model - Aim for big projects where adding or removing 1 developer to smooth your resourcing isn…

The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson. The list of people covered starts at Ada Lovelace and cover…

I'm a developer and I'm about to move to the middle of nowhere. I'm looking for remote work, but most of the job boards dedicated to remote work I've found online are for companies…

Agreed. Your options are: 1) Beg and borrow from the people who love and trust you in the hope that either (a) you'll repay them or (b) they'll forgive you - this is known as a fri…

"Premium User Interface" - you know how when you ring up a bank and essentially they're just reading you stuff on screen and typing your answers in? They're basically just an extra…

A particularly negative review of a London startup[0] by a former employee has been doing the rounds on social media recently. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a couple of extremely positiv…