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50 bookmarks tagged “engineering”

Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?” – charity.wtf

charity.wtf/2024/01/05/questionable-advice-my-boss-says-we-dont-need-any-engineering-managers-is-he-right/

Egoless Engineering

egoless.engineering/

Your company needs Junior devs

softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/09/07/your-team-needs-juniors
Junior engineers are foundational to whether a team can collaborate and innovate

Differing Values In A Team Are Costly

rtpg.co/2024/08/31/cost-of-a-values-gap/

The Day You Stopped Making Compromises on Product Quality

creatoreconomy.so/p/the-day-you-stopped-making-compromises

A/B testing mistakes I learned the hard way

newsletter.posthog.com/p/ab-testing-mistakes-i-learned-the

The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining

predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-works-when-its-raining/
The strangest hardware problem I've ever had to debug.

A Collection of Design Engineers

maggieappleton.com/design-engineers
Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to figure out what a design engineer is

Gift Article: KitchenAid Did It Right 87 Years Ago

theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/kitchenaid-stand-mixer-durability/677524/

How to Build an Origami Computer

quantamagazine.org/how-to-build-an-origami-computer-20240130/
Two mathematicians have shown that origami can, in principle, be used to perform any possible computation. Paper is Turing-complete

How to be a -10x Engineer

taylor.town/-10x

Cody Dock Rolling Bridge

thomasrandallpage.com/Cody-Dock-Rolling-Bridge
Cody Dock is a huge ex-industrial dock located off the tidal Lea river. The Dock is now home to a dynamic artistic community who are in the process of transforming the place from dereliction into an oasis of creativity and production. Reopening...

Bike helmets: what the science really says about an American safety obsession.

slate.com/technology/2023/01/bike-helmets-cyclist-deaths-do-you-need-to-wear.html

Bottleneck #03: Product v Engineering

martinfowler.com/articles/bottlenecks-of-scaleups/03-product-v-engineering.html

A development process startup founders should use to ship features weirdly fast

growing-products.paralect.com/a-development-process-startup-founders-should-use-to-ship-features-weirdly-fast
Here are 9 specific steps founders can use to ship features faster, keep their product team aligned and build what their users really want.

ZeroBanana – Senior Engineers are Living in the Future

zerobanana.com/essays/living-in-the-future/

Code: Falsehoods programmers believe about email

beesbuzz.biz/code/439-Falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-email
In the spirit of falsehoods programmers believe about names and time, here’s some falsehoods about email which are all too common.

How to Write Better with The Why, What, How Framework

eugeneyan.com/writing/writing-docs-why-what-how/
A lightweight commenting system using GitHub issues.

High performance individuals and teams | Pablasso

pablasso.com/high-performance-individuals-and-teams/
Growing up, the only thing that put me off while learning software development, was the common occurrence of people who cared more about one…

Pair Programming Antipatterns

tuple.app/pair-programming-guide/antipatterns
Consider reflecting with your pair or asking for feedback after each session. What could have been better?