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Going Solo and Dark Alleys - Ben Northrop
After twenty or so years as a software developer, mostly in consulting, I felt like I could handle myself in even the most tenuous situations. As an independent, it instantly felt different.
www.bennorthrop.com
March 16, 2025
Going Solo and the Loss of Bullshit - Ben Northrop
As a full-time employee, I used to loathe bullshit. But after going independent, I learned there's a flip-side to it.
www.bennorthrop.com
March 16, 2025
Always do Extra - Ben Northrop
A simple rule that every good, veteran programmer seems to follow with respect to managing their time.
www.bennorthrop.com
March 16, 2025

Charity Majors of Honeycomb.io debunks the "10x engineer" myth, emphasizing team productivity and building inclusive, high-performing engineering teams.
spectrum.ieee.org
March 14, 2025

We like lists because they are an objectively good way to organize information. They allow readers to quickly and easily get what they want.
dynomight.net
March 9, 2025

My personal framework for reading research papers.
blog.codingconfessions.com
March 7, 2025

I prefer scripts to real aliases when defining a custom command.
evanhahn.com
March 6, 2025
Le Wagon forme des développeurs web et des data scientist à travers des formations intensives (bootcamps) de 2 ou 6 mois, à temps plein ou partiel. Depuis 2013, cette école a déjà formé plus de 11 000 étudiants. Présente dans 44 villes et 25 pays, elle a choisi Notion pour s’adapter à son organisation très horizontale. Le premier objectif était de mettre à disposition de tous ses campus des guides opérationnels. Mais l’outil n’a pas tardé à s’imposer pour le partage des connaissances et la collaboration des équipes.
www.notion.com
March 5, 2025

In an ironic twist, I'd started writing this year in review at beginning of December. It's been a bit of a wild ride since then with the COVID Omicron variant.
carlalexander.ca
March 5, 2025
Career Advice Nobody Gave Me- Never Ignore a Recruiter | by Alex Chesser | Index
If you ask a room full of software engineers what they think about recruiters, there are a number of themes that arise. There are jokes about how overwhelming the experience is, the volume of…
index.medium.com
March 5, 2025
It's been said many times that to have lots of good ideas, we need to have lots of bad ones, too. We need lots of ideas, period. What people often skip over when talking about producing ideas is the effort and skill required to filter out the bad ones and...
zapier.com
March 5, 2025
How Chromium Works | by Aaron Boodman | Medium
In March 2011, I drafted an article explaining how the team responsible for Google Chrome ships software. Then I promptly forgot about it. I stumbled across the draft a few days ago. Though it is now…
aboodman.medium.com
March 4, 2025
Cal Newport writes about how organizations can beat back the scourge of overwork and the stress that goes hand in hand with it, particularly while many workers are remote during the coronavirus pandemic.
www.newyorker.com
March 4, 2025
Archipélisation - comment Framasoft conçoit les relations qu’elle tisse – Framablog
framablog.org
March 4, 2025

Cela fait plus de deux ans que je travaille chez beta.gouv.fr, où un collectif de plus de 250 personnes passionnées par le service public (agents publics, dé...
blog.beta.gouv.fr
March 4, 2025

L'entrée dans le monde de la tech s'ouvre de plus en plus aux femmes. Mais quid de la suite ? Comment sont-elles considérées lorsqu'elles sont effectivement devenues développeuses ou data scientists ? Quels dispositifs peuvent être imaginés pour les aider à rester dans ce milieu alors que les femmes ont significativement plus de risques d'abandonner leur carrière technique que leurs homologues masculins ? Elisabeth Fainstein, Coach Développeuse pour le programme Entrepreneurs d'intérêt général et fondatrice d'electronictales.io fait le tour de quelques initiatives émergentes – du monde associatif aux grands groupes, en passant par les start-ups et le secteur public –, afin d'examiner les effets de celles-ci et de rêver aux solutions de demain.
usbeketrica.com
March 4, 2025
Bonjour et bienvenue à vous qui consultez ces quelques mots. Aujourd’hui, j’ai décidé de prendre ma plume et de vous emmener avec moi dans une réflexion qui m’intéresse depuis maintenant un certain …
www.24joursdeweb.fr
March 4, 2025

Putting Thoughts on Trial is a CBT activity focused on the examination of irrational thoughts. Your client will act as a defense attorney, prosecutor,...
www.therapistaid.com
March 4, 2025
Long story short: I’ve taken a new position in Luxembourg and I have tofind an apartment, in a different country, in a reasonably short time.
mattrighetti.com
March 4, 2025

I was kinda preparing to roll my eyes at this, but it's pretty good! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XctnF7C74s What I like are the actual examples, even if they are made generic. Definitely prefer seeing good/bad examples rather than just stating a tip without backing it up with an example. This is a good line: Therein lies the beauty…
email-is-good.com
March 4, 2025

thoughts.melonking.net
March 4, 2025
When my digital todo lists became overwhelming, I designed a minimalist system that fits in my MagSafe wallet.
arun.is
March 1, 2025
Make yourself less valuable to tech companies
John Oliver dedicated the primary segment of his most recent episode on Meta and it's many moderation and privacy failures and violations. It was a well-reasoned take if not a redundant one for everyone who's spent time following these issues. What I found most compelling was his guidance to —...
www.coryd.dev
February 27, 2025

Why and how to preserve digital content in plaintext format for long-term accessibility and reuse
p.migdal.pl
February 25, 2025

We are told that technology is on the brink of ruining everything. But we are being lied to, and the truth is so much better. Marc Andreessen presents his techno-optimist vision for the future.
a16z.com
February 19, 2025
A practical, science-backed model for growing quality professional relationships.
tej.as
February 19, 2025
Rethinking the balance between coding passion, life, and maintaining healthy boundaries.
tej.as
February 19, 2025

The personal site of designer Naz Hamid.
nazhamid.com
February 19, 2025

I've been creating small, hand-written websites to organise my files. It's a lightweight, flexible approach that I hope will last a long time.
alexwlchan.net
February 19, 2025

Personalisation sells, but good design satisfies. Don't wait for perfect execution. Ship and iterate. You don't need to fill your time. Creating calendar white …
carlbarenbrug.com
February 19, 2025

Meta's apps have almost 3 billion daily users. It's scooped up unknown numbers of email addresses and phone numbers for people who never signed up.
www.businessinsider.com
February 19, 2025
Plain text journaling | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's blog
The new/old way of keeping a digital journal
herman.bearblog.dev
February 18, 2025

You’re someone who’s got dreams. If I ask you what a life lived to the fullest looks like, you imagine things like traveling the world, falling in love, or starting a company...
www.shaanpuri.com
February 18, 2025

A higher quality discussion emerged among commenters allowed to use personas instead of their real names.
theconversation.com
February 18, 2025