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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:

• engineering, tag
• values, tag
• advice, tag
• career, tag
• ·3 years ago

What Silicon Valley "Gets" about Software Engineers that Traditional Companies Do Not - The Pragmatic Engineer

blog.pragmaticengineer.com/what-silicon-valley-gets-right-on-software-engineers/

• business, tag
• career, tag
• management, tag
• engineering, tag
• ·3 years ago

What distinguishes great software engineers?

faculty.washington.edu/ajko/papers/Li2019WhatDistinguishesEngineers.pdf

• filetype:pdf, tag
• software, tag
• engineering, tag
• career, tag
• leadership, tag
• best_practices, tag
• ·3 years ago

The Art of Debating: A Useful Skill for Software Developers

thevaluable.dev/guide-debate-software-developer-skill/

The keys to debate effectively as a software developer and therefore bringing value to yourself and your company.

• programming, tag
• career, tag
• communication, tag
• engineering, tag
• soft_skills, tag
• ·3 years ago

Why is This Idiot Running My Engineering Org? | by Marianne Bellotti | Aug, 2020 | Medium

medium.com/@bellmar/why-is-this-idiot-running-my-engineering-org-c6e815790cdb

• career, tag
• management, tag
• engineering, tag
• leadership, tag
• article, tag
• ·3 years ago

Woodworking for engineers

woodgears.ca/

• engineering, tag
• diy, tag
• woodworking, tag
• construction, tag
• gears, tag
• wood, tag
• ·3 years ago

Complexity Has to Live Somewhere

ferd.ca/complexity-has-to-live-somewhere.html

• development, tag
• programming, tag
• architecture, tag
• engineering, tag
• complexity, tag
• ·3 years ago

A practical guide to writing technical specs - Stack Overflow Blog

stackoverflow.blog/2020/04/06/a-practical-guide-to-writing-technical-specs/

• documentation, tag
• requirements, tag
• specifications, tag
• technical_writing, tag
• engineering, tag
• product_design, tag
• ·4 years ago

How to do a code review | eng-practices

google.github.io/eng-practices/review/reviewer/

Google’s Engineering Practices documentation

• engineering, tag
• review, tag
• development, tag
• collaboration, tag
• bugs, tag
• ·4 years ago

507 Mechanical Movements

507movements.com/

Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements, now Animated for the Internet.

• animation, tag
• mechanics, tag
• engineering, tag
• educational, tag
• reference, tag
• gears, tag
• physics, tag
• ·4 years ago

[1904.09954] Why Software Projects need Heroes (Lessons Learned from 1100+ Projects)

arxiv.org/abs/1904.09954

• software, tag
• engineering, tag
• management, tag
• culture, tag
• collaboration, tag
• ·4 years ago

The Elements of UI Engineering - Overreacted

overreacted.io/the-elements-of-ui-engineering/

What makes UI engineering difficult?

• resource, tag
• ui, tag
• design, tag
• engineering, tag
• programming, tag
• UX, tag
• analysis, tag
• guidelines, tag
• ·5 years ago

The Process Myth – Rands in Repose

randsinrepose.com/archives/the-process-myth/

• work, tag
• business, tag
• culture, tag
• process, tag
• management, tag
• engineering, tag
• ·5 years ago

Usability for Nerds

en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Usability_for_Nerds

This Wikibook is intended for engineers, technicians, programmers and others who construct and develop technical things and who want their products to be user-friendly.

• reference, tag
• UX, tag
• usability, tag
• interaction, tag
• ebook, tag
• design, tag
• engineering, tag
• ·6 years ago

Does it scale? Who cares! · Jacques Mattheij

jacquesmattheij.com/does-it-scale-who-cares

• development, tag
• optimisation, tag
• engineering, tag
• scalability, tag
• app, tag
• ·7 years ago

monostable/awesome-electronics: A curated list of awesome resources for electronic engineers and hobbyists

github.com/monostable/awesome-electronics

awesome-electronics - A curated list of awesome resources for electronic engineers and hobbyists

• diy, tag
• electronics, tag
• hardware, tag
• circuit, tag
• directory, tag
• engineering, tag
• ·7 years ago

Security Engineering - A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems

cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html

• security, tag
• book, tag
• engineering, tag
• reference, tag
• network, tag
• ·7 years ago

Wevolver

wevolver.com/home/

• hardware, tag
• open_knowledge, tag
• engineering, tag
• 3d_printing, tag
• models, tag
• diy, tag
• collaboration, tag
• open_source, tag
• ·7 years ago

The Bug in the Physical Building – Two Wrongs

two-wrongs.com/the-bug-in-the-physical-building

• architecture, tag
• interesting, tag
• development, tag
• engineering, tag
• bugs, tag
• building, tag
• welding, tag
• ·7 years ago

Why Computer Programmers Should Stop Calling Themselves Engineers - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/programmers-should-not-call-themselves-engineers/414271/

Greenwashing , or "green sheen,"[1][2] is a form of spin in which green PR or green marketing is deceptively used to promote the perception that an organization's products, aims or policies are environmentally friendly.[3] Evidence that an organization is greenwashing often comes from pointing out the spending differences: when significantly more money or time has been spent advertising being "green" , than is actually spent on environmentally sound practices.[4] Greenwashing efforts...

• engineering, tag
• development, tag
• code, tag
• language, tag
• tech_industry, tag
• ·8 years ago