🔖 A Bunch of Programming Advice
It's more accurate to call it a bunch of software engineering advice, as most of it is about engineering practices, particularly on large, team-based projects.
It's more accurate to call it a bunch of software engineering advice, as most of it is about engineering practices, particularly on large, team-based projects.
Advice on being braver as a programmer. This is actually good advice for anything where you can't really do any damage be screwing up,
Basically "Choose Boring Technology" (cited and linked in the first couple of paragraphs) and then expanded with "and these are the choices I made"
Some useful advice on slow cooking red meat
Advice on how to listen to people. I don't want to say "effectively" because that sounds reductive and transactional. But how to listen with purpose to actually make connections with people . In summary:
Some of what she says I summarised a bit; a couple of the points were basically "Don't make it abut yourself" but from different angles.
I had a similar theory, about not caring about things more than the people who are intrinsically motivated to care. Mandy's make so much more sense.
Julia Evans offers advice on writing a blog, specifically myths about blogging.
A Redditor sub-posts a drunken post by a senior engineer, answering the question of how to document
Engineer gets drunk and brain dumps on Reddit. A lot of it is actually very good
Heather Havrilesky is the prophet we need, not the one we deserve