'Should I be able to learn how to be more productive at work?' (3 mins read).
Looking at whether learning how to be more productive, during work hours, is a reasonable thing to do.
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#career
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Does the tech industry thrive on free work? (6 mins read).
Thinking about how there are subtle expectations to work on your career outside of tech, and how it's not necessarily great.
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#career
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#adhd
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https://snarfed.org/sinking_rowboat.webp https://snarfed.org/sinking_rowboat.webp Matthew Childs / Reuters We live in a golden age of software reuse. We’ve never before had such a wealth of freely …
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Troublesome Terriers
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Boxing Day Sale is on at 40% at AbsoluteDogs until New Year Day and we wanted to share some of our insights into terriers… something we dive into in our AbsoluteTerrier badge. Does your dog have an …
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RT @abbott567 Truth bomb. The culture in most orgs is ableist. Accessibility is undervalued, underfunded and deprioritised. Specialists are disempowered, outnumbered and ignored. Middle-management would rather use their influence for exemptions than for culture change. Do better! Rant over.✌️Carol ⭐️ (@CarolSaysThings)Thu, 20 Oct 2022 19:07 +0000
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Retrofitting OpenAPI documentation to your Rails codebase (12 mins read).
How to take a Rails codebase and introduce OpenAPI documentation and contract tests, in a test-driven manner.
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#blogumentation
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Bookmarklets — Syntax Podcast 524
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Full Stack Developers Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski dive deep into web development topics, explaining how they work and talking about their own experiences. They cover from JavaScript frameworks like React, to the latest advancements in CSS to simplifying web tooling.
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I have a feeling that #Morph wants something, but I can't quite put my finger on it 🤔
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Vorsprung durch Technik with Sebastian Kister, Team Lead, Kubernetes Competence Center, Audi 🚙 (Ship It! #74)
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I don’t think that you can imagine just how excited Gerhard was to find out that Audi, his favourite car company, has a Kubernetes competence centre. We have Sebastian Kister joining us today to tell us why people, followed by tech make the process. The right thing to focus on is the genuine smiles that people give in ...
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Very cool that my post, lessons learned since posting my salary history publicly was the most clicked link!
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We revisit our Harmonai story from last week, Jamie Tanna reviews posting his salary history publicly, Sid Sijbrandij’s new (open core) venture fund, Zed Shaw thinks Stripe is like Paypal in 2010 & Helix is a new Rust-based terminal.
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🗞 New episode of Changelog News! 🗞 🎷 @harmonai_org revisted 🤑 @jamietanna's public salary 📈 @systes' @OpenCoreVenture 💳 @lzsthw: @stripe is @paypal 2010 🦀 @rustlang-based Helix editor 🎙 hosted by @jerodsanto 🎧 changelog.fm/news-2022-10-17Changelog (@changelog)Mon, 17 Oct 2022 19:38 +0000
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Week Notes 22#41 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-10-10?
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#week-notes.
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Mat's GopherCon EU diary with Mat Ryer & friends (Go Time #250)
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Join Mat Ryer on his journey to Berlin for GopherCon EU 2022. Along the way he chats with Egon Elbre, Ale Kennedy, Ole Bulbuk, Christian Haas, Bill Kennedy & Ron Evans. Danke!
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10 months on: Has our four-day week been a success?
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In November 2021, we decided to trial a four-day week across our bank. Was it a success? Yes. Read our blog post to find out how.
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Phew, that's a lot of traffic 😅 What happens when a blog post goes viral? (5 mins read).
Looking at some of the things that happen when my posts have gone viral, from how much traffic it brings, to the various sources of traffic.
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#blogging
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Week Notes 22#40 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-10-03?
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#week-notes.
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IndieWebCamp Popup: How to Make the IndieWeb More Approachable
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The IndieWeb community welcomes anyone who is interested in expressing themselves on a personal website, regardless of technical experience. In this meetup, we will be asking the question "how can we …
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#Morph is being a little man this morning and sitting at his place at the table
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New on the blog: @JamieTanna writes about how we've been looking at our #OpenSource dependencies to determine where best to prioritise for contributions over #Hacktoberfest and beyond deliveroo.engineering/2022/09/29/hac…DeliverooEng (@DeliverooEng)Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:55 +0000
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How to Get Past the Blahs and Finish Your Project — Syntax Podcast 518
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Full Stack Developers Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski dive deep into web development topics, explaining how they work and talking about their own experiences. They cover from JavaScript frameworks like React, to the latest advancements in CSS to simplifying web tooling.
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The many strengths of neurodivergence
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We talk about giving people the space necessary to do their best work, implementing more inclusive hiring practices, and everyday routines that help us stay our happiest and most productive.
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I don’t care who this is offends, Tories are bad people. Their policies are based on selfishness, hatred of the poor, self preservation, pure recklessness and every single person who votes for them is responsible for torpedoing the country
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#politics.
I've got ADHD (4 mins read).
Announcing my recent diagnosis with ADHD Inattentive Type.
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Functional programming with generics? featuring Aaron Schlesinger (Go Time #249)
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We did an episode on functional programming in Go with Aaron Schlesinger back in 2019… But that was before generics were a thing. Let’s revisit the topic and discuss the pros and cons now that we have generics. What’s changed? What hasn’t?
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Week Notes 22#39 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-09-26?
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Love to spend a good chunk writing a library for Go to wrap an http.Handler and make it straightforward to run in AWS Lambda, only to discover this morning that there's a library already for it - woops 😅 Saves me finishing off the README or blogging about my "novel" approach, I guess
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Analysing our dependency trees to determine where we should send Open Source contributions for Hacktoberfest (8 mins read).
How we (at Deliveroo) are using GitHub Advanced Security's dependency scanning functionality to determine what our most popular dependencies are, and whether we can find any Open Source contributions for the month of Hacktoberfest.
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We hate Scrum and Agile...when it's done wrong (Ep. 489)
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When it's done wrong, it becomes punitive micromanagement. When it's done right, it empowers everyone to tackle the problems they handle best.
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Product development structures as systems with Lucas F. Costa (The Changelog #507)
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This week we’re talking about product development structures as systems with Lucas da Costa. The last time we had Lucas on the show he was living the text-mode only life, and now we’re more than 3 years later, Lucas has doubled down on all things text mode. Today’s conversation with Lucas maps several ideas he’s shared...
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Engineering interview tips & tricks with Emma Draper & Jonas (Go Time #248)
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In this episode, we will be exploring interviewing as a Software Engineer. Tips, tricks, and gotchas, as well as potentially some interviewing horror stories and red flags to avoid at all costs. We’re joined by Emma Draper, Engineering Manager at the New York Times based in Arizona, and Kate Jonas, goes by Jonas, Techn...
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Modern Software Engineering (Ship It! #71)
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Dave Farley, co-author of Continuous Delivery, is back to talk about his latest book, Modern Software Engineering, a Top 3 Software Engineering best seller on Amazon UK this September. Shipping good software starts with you giving yourself permission to do a good job. It continues with a healthy curiosity, admitting th...
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Week Notes 22#38 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-09-19?
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Had a great time in the week at Immersive Gamebox with my #Deliveroo colleagues, playing their new #SquidGames immersive game! Definitely helped that failure wasn't fatal 😅 We managed to score pretty well, too
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An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding
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For varying levels of seniority, from senior, to staff, and beyond.
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Wishing bi folks a happy #BiVisibilityDay! 💗💜💙Sarah Cosgriff 🏳️🌈 (@Sarah_Cosgriff)Fri, 23 Sep 2022 09:07 +0000
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Entitlement in Open Source
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There have been discussions in the aftermath of the log4j vulnerability about whether or not open source is broken or sustainable, what we can do to improve the sustainability of the open source ecosystem moving forwards, and the entitlement of users and companies in expecting maintainers to fix their problems.
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Lessons learned since posting my salary history publicly (8 mins read).
What I've learned in the year since posting my salary history publicly.
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#salary
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#capital-one
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Kaizen! Four PRs, one big feature with Adam, Jerod & Lars Wikman (Ship It! #70)
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In today’s Kaizen episode, we talk about shipping Adam’s Christmas present: chapter support for all Changelog episodes that we now publish. This feature was hard because there are many subtle differences in how the ID3 spec is implemented. Of course, once the PR shipped, there were other issues to solve, including an u...
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Two thumbs up for the Cool Wall with Tammer Saleh, founder of SuperOrbital (Ship It! #65)
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Tammer Saleh, founder of Super Orbital, a tiny team of exceptional Kubernetes engineers and teachers, is joining us today to talk about what is cool in the Cloud Native world. Yes, it’s the same Tammer that we had the pleasure of on shipit.show/31 - Is Kubernetes a platform? In today’s episode, we also cover two great ...
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Stay agile out there with Inbal Cohen (Go Time #247)
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Inbal Cohen, Product expert and Agile evangelist, joins Natalie & Angelica for a conversation about all things Agile. Inbal lays out some agile tips for Go devs, discusses if and how remote work changes things, describes some downsides of the methodology, and more.
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Week Notes 22#37 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-09-12?
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💶 Instead of sponsoring open-source contributors for their work, sponsor them to go on vacation. 🏝️ (Suggested by @Tixie_)Mara Bos (@m_ou_se)Fri, 16 Sep 2022 15:31 +0000
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You: I submitted that pull request. Time to start a new thing! Me: can we not? Are there pull requests to review? Untended upkeep, like libraries to upgrade? To keep WIP low, avoid starting a new thing. Move anything in-progress forward first.Jessica Joy Kerr (@jessitron)Mon, 12 Sep 2022 18:04 +0000
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Take Care of Your Blog
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The website of Robin Rendle, a designer and writer from the UK.
Week Notes 22#36 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-09-05?
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Do the right thing. Do what works. Be kind. with Rob Mee, CEO of Geometer.io & former CEO of Pivotal (Ship It! #66)
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Why are the right values important for a company that changed the way the world builds software? How does pair programming help scale & maintain the company culture? What is it like to grow a company to 3000 employees over 30 years? Today we have the privilege of Rob Mee, former CEO of Pivotal, the real home of Clo...
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