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Your Company’s Terrible Cross-Team Communication is Costing You Money

Uh Oh, An Outage!

Jan 16, 2024
A maze map of lines with the title “How to apply credit at our firm”
A maze map of lines with the title “How to apply credit at our firm”
Jan 16, 2024

Rethinking Our News Diet: Embracing Slow News

Especially during difficult times, I’ve started practicing what I call Slow News: consuming information more slowly. You might disagree…

Dec 19, 2023
Woman checking her phone in a room with a big clock, full of notifications of favorites around the block.
Woman checking her phone in a room with a big clock, full of notifications of favorites around the block.
Dec 19, 2023

An Example in Writing Readable Code

Recently, I took a look at an old Pull Request I wrote. It required a delicate rewriting of a confusing mechanism.

Dec 12, 2023
The Office’s Michael Scott, saying “No question about it. I’m ready to get hurt again.” with the caption “WHEN FINISHED REFACTORING.”
The Office’s Michael Scott, saying “No question about it. I’m ready to get hurt again.” with the caption “WHEN FINISHED REFACTORING.”
Dec 12, 2023

Concise Code is Better Code

Or: Your “self-documenting code” is terrible

Dec 6, 2023
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Lisa Simpson, in front of the school, projected behind her the words, “Longer code for clarity is like more water in a soup for flavor.”
Lisa Simpson, in front of the school, projected behind her the words, “Longer code for clarity is like more water in a soup for flavor.”
Dec 6, 2023
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Ending the Editor Debate Once and For All

Worse than “pineapple on pizza” (team No Pineapple!) and Batman vs. Superman (team DeVito Penguin!), it’s time for the final text editors…

Aug 7, 2023
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Rosa Diaz in a Brooklyn 99 scene holding a dog, saying “I’ve only had Vim for a day and a half but if anything happened to him, I would kill everyone in this room and then myself.” (Vim is in green.)
Rosa Diaz in a Brooklyn 99 scene holding a dog, saying “I’ve only had Vim for a day and a half but if anything happened to him, I would kill everyone in this room and then myself.” (Vim is in green.)
Aug 7, 2023
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Embracing Professional Adversity

A friend once vented about a company’s shortcomings — poor testing suite, non-standardized classes, antiquated code, and inconsistent…

Aug 1, 2023
Embracing Professional Adversity
Embracing Professional Adversity
Aug 1, 2023

How to Think About Technical Debt

And How to Deal with Technical Debt Successfully

Jul 17, 2023
Michael Scott from The Office (US) saying “I DECLARE BANKRUPTSY!”
Michael Scott from The Office (US) saying “I DECLARE BANKRUPTSY!”
Jul 17, 2023

A Myth of Productivity: Multiple Monitors are Hurting You

TL;DR

May 31, 2023
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Scene from The Office (US): Dwight at his combined clump of desks, named Megadesk
Scene from The Office (US): Dwight at his combined clump of desks, named Megadesk
May 31, 2023
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A/B Testing Hands-On: Creating a Hypothesis to Sell More Books

We covered the basic steps of A/B testing in previous posts. Now, let’s start going through the steps in greater detail, beginning with a…

May 24, 2023
A/B Testing Hands-On: Creating a Hypothesis to Sell More Books
A/B Testing Hands-On: Creating a Hypothesis to Sell More Books
May 24, 2023

The Great API Escape: When Interfaces Need a Hatch

Imagine building a door for a house. The door is beautiful, but it only opens a portion of it allowing people entry. It looks to be the…

May 16, 2023
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Beautiful house with people standing outside
Beautiful house with people standing outside
May 16, 2023
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