Victor Loux — bookmarks tagged “engineering”

How to be a -10x Engineer

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?

Don't build (or build) that feature

dont.build/

A simple, opinionated decision system to help decide whether to build a software feature or not.

Stay alert - DEV Community

dev.to/richharris/stay-alert-d

A short while ago, Chrome broke the web by disabling alert(), confirm() and prompt() dialogs from... Tagged with javascript.

Always be quitting - jmmv.dev

jmmv.dev/2021/04/always-be-quitting.html

A good philosophy to live by at work is to “always be quitting”. No, don’t be constantly thinking of leaving your job 😱. But act as if you might leave on short notice 😎. Counterintuitively, this will make you a better engineer and open up growth opportunities. A thread 👇.

An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding | by Camille Fournier | Jun, 2021 | Medium

skamille.medium.com/an-incomplete-list-of-skills-senior-engineers-need-beyond-coding-8ed4a521b29f

For varying levels of seniority, from senior, to staff, and beyond.. “An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding” is published by Camille Fournier.

Cognicull

cognicull.com/en

Internal Combustion Engine – Bartosz Ciechanowski

ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/

My Engineering Values | Mike McQuaid

mikemcquaid.com/2020/12/15/my-engineering-values/

I’ve been encouraged by a mentor to think about what my core (engineering) values are (in the context of being recently promoted to be a “staff engineer” and having my eyes on being a “principal engineer” one day). This felt like something that could be of wider interest so here we go: