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Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people
I spend a lot of time negotiating this in the software world:
And if you're wondering why this happens, it's normally because:
1. people aren't talking to people
2. people aren't listening
So lots of designers and product people have leapt onto 1, basically trying to turn talking to people
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on: 2026-04-20
Nobody knows how the whole system works
One of the surprising (at least to me) consequences of the fall of Twitter is the rise of LinkedIn as a social media site. I saw some interesting posts I wanted to call attention to: First, Simon W…
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on: 2026-02-09
A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: Monarch’s Philosophy on AI in Dev
This is a memo I published internally to my team at Monarch. I’m sharing it more publicly in case it helps other software engineering teams that are managing the crazy times we’re exper…
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on: 2026-01-31
Things I’ve learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager
Non-obvious advice that I wish I learned sooner.
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on: 2026-01-26
stdlib | Debugging Leadership
Explore curated frameworks, templates, and guides for technical leadership. From 1:1 templates to architecture frameworks, find the tools you need to lead effectively.
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on: 2025-10-03
kuchin/awesome-cto: A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers, with
A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers, with the emphasis on startups - kuchin/awesome-cto
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on: 2025-02-13
kuchin/awesome-cto: A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief T
— Hello, my name is Dima and I'm a CTO — (chorus) Welcome, Dima A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers and VP R&D, with the emphasis on startups and hyper-growth companies.
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on: 2025-02-13
How to Delegate Effectively as Your Responsibility Grows
I’m gearing up, like some kind of power washer, to spray new productized services into our operations group so they can SOP those services at scale. And because I’m doing that, this seemed like a good moment to draw on my experience, both in leadership roles and as a management consultant, and lay out a…
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on: 2024-11-13
How I ship projects at big tech companies
What I think about when I'm lead engineer on a project
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on: 2024-11-12
Methodology is bullshit: principles for product velocity | SSOReady
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on: 2024-11-08
0 → 1, Shipping Threads in 5 Months
Zahan Malkani shares how they built a microblogging service to compete with Twitter with a small team that shipped a new social network in a few months.
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on: 2024-10-15
Everything App for your teams
Huly, an open-source platform, serves as an all-in-one replacement of Linear, Jira, Slack, and Notion.
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on: 2024-10-14
Why you need a "WTF Notebook"
There's a very specific reputation I want to have on a team: "Nat helps me solve my problems. Nat get things I care about done."
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on: 2024-04-19
Breaking Down Tasks
Something missing from this series on estimation, until now, has been a discussion of how to “break down” a project into a well-defined task list. I’d not previously written about this because, to me, it’s largely intuitive. But it isn’t for everyone, so this post fills the gap, and explains in detail how I break down projects into a task list.
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on: 2024-03-12
Solo dev for 15 years, I'll have a junior dev help me soon. What should he
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on: 2024-02-21
How to boss without being bossy : Hacker News
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on: 2023-11-11
Emotions: A Code Book
What I write about my own personal journey is intended as just that—my personal journey.
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on: 2023-07-26
Promoted from Dev to Team Lead: 8 Things They Didn’t Tell Me
When I was promoted to Dev Team Lead, I was in over my head. Read the 8 things that I wish someone had told me when I was promoted.
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on: 2023-06-05
Some mistakes I made as a new manager
the trough of zero dopamine • managing the wrong amount • procrastinating on hard questions • indefinitely deferring maintenance • angsting instead of asking
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on: 2023-04-24
Staying Organized | Tighten
Andrew Morgan (a Lead Programmer at Tighten) joins us this week to talk all things organization - why it's important for devs (and all of us, really) to stay organized, how he does it, and a lot...
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on: 2023-04-19
Dealing with technical debt during the sprint — Matthias Noback - Blog
It’s quite ironic that my most “popular” tweet has been posted while Twitter itself is in such a chaotic phase. It’s also quite ironic that I try to provide helpful suggestions for doing a better job as a programmer, yet such a bitter tweet ends up to be so popular.
Twitter and Mastodon are micro-blogging platforms. The problem with micro-blogs, and with short interactions in general, is that everybody can proceed to project onto your words whatever they like. So at some point I often feel the need to explain myself with more words, in an “actual” blog like this one.
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on: 2022-11-12
The 37signals Guide to Making Decisions
A company is essentially two things: a group of people and a collection of decisions. How those people make these decisions is the art of running a business. This guide shows how we do it.
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on: 2022-10-23
I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free - Stack Overflow
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on: 2022-09-22
The 5 Whys: get to the root of your productivity problems
If you're having trouble with your productivity, consider finding the root using the 5 Whys technique.
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on: 2021-12-06
Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
A guide for collaborating with networks of people, working together towards a common purpose.
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on: 2021-07-04
10 things I wish every design student knew | by Cameron Moll | Medium
This week I had the privilege of speaking to design students at two universities about my career. Here are some of the things I shared, most of which were answers to their questions. 1. The greatest…
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on: 2021-06-22
An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding | by Cami
For varying levels of seniority, from senior, to staff, and beyond.. “An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding” is published by Camille Fournier.
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on: 2021-06-22
Mistakes I've Made as an Engineering Manager | CSS-Tricks
I’ve been a manager for many years at companies of different scale. Through these experiences, I’ve done my share of learning, and made some mistakes along
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on: 2021-02-22
The Value-Effort Matrix: A framework for thinking about work - Human Who Codes
The Official Web Site of Nicholas C. Zakas
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on: 2020-11-19
How Stopping Estimations Helped a Team to Become More Predictable
When making estimations using story points didn’t feel helpful, a team decided to experiment with #NoEstimates. Breaking down stories into smaller tasks gives them insight into their velocity and has
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on: 2020-10-29
Making Distributed Organizations More Effective
An autonomous team model with teams organized around geographical or time-zone proximity can make a distributed organization more effective. With the Reverse Conway Maneuver you can deliberately add o
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on: 2020-06-25
How to write the perfect pull request - The GitHub Blog
As a company grows, people and projects change. To continue to nurture the culture we want at GitHub, we’ve found it useful to remind ourselves what we aim for when…
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on: 2020-02-19
Lessons from building “N26 for Web” | Hugo Giraudel
I’m Kitty Giraudel, a transfeminine web engineer based in Berlin, focused on accessibility and inclusivity.
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on: 2020-02-03
Let’s talk about your resume | Hugo Giraudel
I’m Kitty Giraudel, a transfeminine web engineer based in Berlin, focused on accessibility and inclusivity.
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on: 2020-02-03
Making Distributed Working Work ◆ 24 ways
Anna Debenham harnesses up the huskies and puts them to work to figure out how teams distributed across multiple locations can work effectively to all pull in the same direction. With modern workforces distributed from north pole to south, can they all be kept running in step?
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on: 2019-12-12
Developers mentoring other developers: practices I've seen work well
How does mentoring work? I asked this question ten years into my software
engineering career when I joined Uber. Until then, I've never received or done
mentoring, or at least never put this label on any activity I've done before.
Uber, however, had an official mentoring program. Almost every engineer I met
had a mentor. Mentorship is an expectation for senior and above engineers, it
being listed in our engineering competencies. Since working here, I've been
mentored, been a mentor, and have ob
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on: 2019-11-12
Modern applications at AWS - All Things Distributed
20 years ago Amazon went through a major transformation. Here’s what we learned about building modern applications along the way.
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on: 2019-08-29
Design Patterns for Managing Up - ACM Queue
Challenges come up all the time at work. Spend time now thinking about how you want to be seen at work, and then think about how that version of you would respond to the challenges that you could encounter. When you have a plan in place, you are much more likely to succeed.
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on: 2019-01-26
Ask A Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo | Y Combinator
I’m the moderator for our Ask A Female Engineer series, and a female engineer on
the software team at YC. This is the sixth installment in a series where we ask
female engineers questions and share their candid, anonymous responses. In this
post, we did something a bit different: we asked engineers to answer questions
about the recent memo by former Google engineer James Damore. The engineers
responding to these questions were given pseudonyms, and those pseudonyms are
consistent through the se
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on: 2017-08-16
Leadership Principles
We use our Leadership Principles every day, whether we’re discussing ideas for new projects or deciding on the best way to solve a problem. It’s just one of the things that makes Amazon peculiar.
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on: 2017-04-24
The One Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires - Mattermark
Let’s be real. Interviews are a terrible way to hire tech candidates. Here’s why paying candidates to solve problems works.
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on: 2016-11-10
Perché iniziamo ogni nuovo progetto con un Design Sprint | Sergio Panagia |
[Pubblicato originariamente in lingua inglese su Medium il 25 agosto 2016] “FAIL FAST” è probabilmente l’espressione più abusata nell’ambiente startup: imparare dai propri errori e iterare velocemente sul prodotto dovrebbe essere il modo migliore per avvicinarsi al successo. Quando si tratta di mett
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on: 2016-09-29
http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/time-management-multiple-authors.htm
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on: 2016-07-26
Continuous Deployment at Instagram | Engineering Blog | Instagram Engineeri
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on: 2016-04-13
A succesful Git branching model considered harmful
Update 2018-07. The branching model described here is called trunk based development. I and other people who I collaborated with did not know about the articles that used this name. Nowadays there are excellent web resources about the subject, like trunkbaseddevelopment.com. They have a lot of...
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on: 2016-02-28
http://engineering.skybettingandgaming.com/2016/02/02/how-we-release-so-frequently/
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on: 2016-02-07
Ditching Scrum for Kanban — The best decision we’ve made as a team — CTO Sc
The following is a story about how we matured as an engineering team. We went from an ad-hoc process to Scrum, and used Scrum for a whole year. Scrum leveled us up as a team in terms of structure and…
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on: 2016-01-06
standards/project.md at master · wheniwork/standards
Coding standards for the future of scheduling
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on: 2015-12-10
Teams: building, managing, leading, performing
Years ago, after finishing my bachelor in computer science, while doing my specialization studies in teaching and, later on, while doing my masters in leadership and management, I had several subje…
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on: 2015-11-03
Monorepos - Qafoo GmbH - passion for software quality
Qafoo GmbH provides Training, Consulting and Support for Quality Assurance Processes and various quality assurance tools like PHP_Depend, PHPMD, Arbit and PhpUnderControl.
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on: 2015-08-31
Looking for PHP developers to start PHP development Team : r/PHP
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on: 2015-06-04
This is how we ZenPayroll: Our Development Workflow
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on: 2014-11-07