Bookmarks tagged “tech”
1112 bookmarks tagged “tech”
Slack’s Jan 2021 outage: a tale of saturation – Surfing Complexity
Laura Nolan of Slack recently published an excellent write-up of their Jan. 4, 2021 outage on Slack’s engineering blog. One of the things that struck me about this writeup is the contributing facto…
Handling rejected promises in React with an error boundary – eddiewould.com
Treat unhandled promise rejections (exceptions in async code) consistently with regular synchronous exceptions in React.
How to build organizational resilience – Increment: Reliability
By encoding resilience into an organization’s culture, engineering teams can be better equipped to tackle the unknown and unexpected.
Demystifying Product Strategy. Product Strategy has been a significant… | b
Product Strategy has been a significant part of most companies and particularly holds a special place in the tech industry, where the strategy takes many different paths and flavours. We will look…
How to become a grandmaster of your own career | by Jenks Guo | Humans of X
It was another quiet night in lockdown, well past the city curfew. But my wife and I were awake and staring at the coffee table. There was silence in the living room and the tension was palpable. You…
Resilience engineering: Where do I start? - Resilience Engineering Associat
Originally published by Lorin Hochstein This an introductory guide to readings in resilience engineering. Key papers are organized into themes: What is resilience? Changing perspectives […]
The human side of AI for chess - Microsoft Research
Researchers at Microsoft, University of Toronto, and Cornell University have created new chess AI that better matches human play at various skill levels. Learn how Maia, a custom chess engine, predicts individual players’ moves with up to 75% accuracy when personalized.
How to run VS Code as a Container for Remote Development - DEV Community
Launch your own Code Server container with preloaded dev tools (SDKs, npm packages, CLIs etc) for an...
HTML and CSS still isn’t about painting with code | Christian Heilmann
Build, compile, run: A crash course in classpaths - DEV Community
Wherein we learn about the various classpaths important in building and running your Java/Kotlin/Android projects
Cypress vs Selenium vs Playwright vs Puppeteer speed comparison | Checkly b
How does Cypress compare to Puppeteer, Playwright, WebDriverIO, and Selenium, speed-wise? We ran our own benchmark to find out.
The future of work is written – Increment: Remote
Exploring the opportunities of asynchronous communication and the (conscientiously) written word.
'Why Do I Spend Weeks Avoiding Tasks That Will Take Me 10 Minutes to Do?'
Procrastinating has less to do with time management and more to do with mood management.
Why the iPhone Timer App displays a Fake Time
While building a timer app I came across a peculiarity with displaying time and found out that the iPhone timer addresses it by showing you a fake time.
Learn to program BASIC with a Twitter bot - Stack Overflow Blog
Things You Can Do With CSS Today — Smashing Magazine
The present and future of CSS are very bright indeed and if you take a pragmatic, progressive approach to your CSS, then things will continue to get better and better on your projects, too. Some of the really handy powers CSS gives you might have slipped you by, so in this articl
Why scientists are turning to Rust
Despite having a steep learning curve, the programming language offers speed and safety.
How to stand out as a ThoughtWorks candidate | ThoughtWorks
We’re intentional about hiring at Thoughtworks. We’re so intentional, in fact, that we made an entire program dedicated to it—Joy of Interviewing, or JOI for short—and everyone involved with interviewing goes through it. We strongly believe that interviewing can be equal parts ch
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[Career Pathways] Slow down, listen to the people around you, and take the
In our series ‘Career Pathways’, we share inspiring, real-life stories from Thoughtworkers on how they began their career in technology, lessons they learnt along the way, and how their journey at Thoughtworks has enabled their career as technologists. Name: Effy EldenJoined Th
How my military service helped me thrive in a corporate career | by Josh An
I decided to join the military during my second year of college, right after 9/11. I spent that summer working for the Bureau of Land Management, doing backcountry survey expeditions in Wyoming. I…
Null-tracking, or the difference between union and sum types
Functional programming features have been making their way into mainstreamlanguages lately, such as with new programming languages like Scala and Rust, ornew...