PinnedVictor RoninHow to manage projects in startups.I almost wrote this article in our startup’s wiki as a guideline on how we think about projects.Oct 6, 20233Oct 6, 20233
PinnedVictor RonininNerd For TechBuilding high-quality softwareI have interviewed many people (both engineers and managers) lately, and one of the standard questions I ask is how to build high-quality…Jul 16, 20215Jul 16, 20215
PinnedVictor RonininNerd For TechCore engineering principlesEach day at work, I make tons and tons of small and big decisions about code, team, projects, and so on. It’s incredible how many of them…Jul 26, 20218Jul 26, 20218
PinnedVictor RoninAbout this blogI write about the software industry in general, management, and software development. I mostly try to shed light on how everything works…Dec 9, 20211Dec 9, 20211
Victor RoninLife’s Difficulty Settings: What Level Are You Playing On?I read an interesting comparison of life’s complexities to playing a game on various difficulty settings. Someone born in a first-world…Jun 18Jun 18
Victor RoninWhat do you do if your engineering department is stuck in the rut?I was reading something on LinkedIn and stumbled on this story. The short summary from the article itself is: “Side channels. High (amount…Jun 161Jun 161
Victor RoninYou can’t grow faster than your company.A disclaimer: I am talking about tech. I know too little about other industries to be credible.Jun 12Jun 12
Victor RoninBetter software engineers resume.“I fixed a bug in a bash script wrapped in Python code.’May 273May 273
Victor RoninSorry, Mr. Software engineer, you won’t grow exponentially.We are all mesmerized by exponential growth. Look at these unicorn startups popping up seemingly from nowhere, Nasdaq growing exponentially…May 178May 178
Victor RoninOne of the hard things in computer science is naming things.There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. — Phil KarltonMay 42May 42