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Three-Bucket Framework for Engineering Metrics
Deciding what metrics to track and report to stakeholders.
New Grad to Staff at Meta in 3 years: Evan King
On Speed, Being Bold, and Depositing Into the “Favor Bank”
15 Lessons From 15 Years of Indie App Development
Exactly 15 years ago on November 9th, 2009, I got my first MacBook and started learning how to build apps. I was fascinated with the idea that you can build something that other people will find useful and enjoy using. I also heard about those "indie developers" on Twitter who
Why am I writing a JavaScript toolchain in Zig?
Announcing the existence of Jam – An robust JS toolchain in Zig
How Large Language Models work
Thanks to Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence has now caught the attention of pretty much everyone, but how these models work is still less widely understood.
Fake It Till You Make It: Good Advice or a Setup for Failure?
Imitating confidence, competency, and drive may work for some, but what are the long-term professional implications?
Serving a billion web requests with boring code - llimllib notes
Mathematical Thinking Isn’t What You Think It Is | Quanta Magazine
The mathematician David Bessis claims that everyone is capable of, and can benefit greatly from, mathematical thinking.
Engineering Managers' Guide to Effective Annual Feedback
Breaking down the feedback cycle process from preparation to follow-up. Approaches I found useful, antipatterns to avoid, and a document structure that can help bring it all to one place. I hope to turn this often-dreaded task into a powerful tool for individual growth and organi
What docs as code really means - passo.uno
I’ve recently started a new job as a documentation engineer. While my work is largely the same as that of a technical writer, the sound and semantics of my new job title gave me some pause and made me think about what it really means to be doing docs-as-code. To say that it’s abo
A Map of Sync
We can categorize sync platforms across nine dimensions: data size, data update rate, the structure of the data, input latency, offline support, numbe...
The Dual Nature of Events in Event-Driven Architecture
Given that events play such a central role in event-driven architecture, there’s an astonishing lack of agreement on what should be contained in an event. This may be rooted in the fact that, depending on your perspective, events fulfill different purposes.
Should JavaScript be split into two languages? New Google-driven proposal divides opinion • DEVCLASS
A Google engineer presented a proposal to the official standardization committee that would split JavaScript into two languages, […]
The Secret to a Meaningful Life is Simpler Than You Think
Unhappy people fail to recognize what matters, instead becoming overly focused on what they believe is missing from their existence.
Know your “One Job” and do it first – charity.wtf
Story time. Susan was hired as a database engineer. Her primary projects, which are supposed to be upgrading/rolling out a major point release and running load tests against various config options …