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[jakobs]

Last week I came across this old article by Rands about managementese. It’s a great essay on communication — and how, in the workplace, communication naturally optimizes for clarity and speed.

https://refactoring.fm/p/the-true-meaning-of-technical-debt

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“People don’t quit bad jobs, they quit bad bosses,” according to an old saw. Our research suggests there’s truth behind this saying: bosses matter far more for employee job satisfaction than any other factor we measured. But what makes someone a great boss?

https://hbr.org/2016/12/if-your-boss-could-do-your-job-youre-more-likely-to-be-happy-at-work

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The commit message will be your blank canvas where you in prose write in ways that reinforce what the code in the commit does. If you've got your solution down it will be easy. It's safe to concurrently operate on the slice (array) since each go-routine is only manipulating one index of the slice.

https://www.iamjonas.me/2021/01/literate-atomic-commits.html

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via mentalized.net

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If you're not familiar with the term, "pixel-perfection" is the idea that your HTML/CSS implementation should be as close to the original mockup as possible. Measurements and spacing should be exact, down to the pixel.

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/pixel-perfection/

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Been a lot of "victim blaming" going on these last few days. The victim, through no fault of their own, has been the target of numerous angry tweets designed to ridicule their role in internet security and suggest they are incapable of performing their duty. Here's where it all started:

https://www.troyhunt.com/humans-are-bad-at-urls-and-fonts-dont-matter/

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The emerging norm for web development is to build a React single-page application, with server rendering. The two key elements of this architecture are something like: This idea has really swept the internet.

https://macwright.com/2020/05/10/spa-fatigue.html

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The country's pandemic policies came at a high price—and created painful rifts in its scientific community.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6513/159

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Not so long ago, most people were working at an office desk, and were expected to show their face every single weekday. Arrive at a certain time, take a lunch break, and stay late enough that people know you are working hard.

https://nesslabs.com/time-is-not-a-measure-of-productivity

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Defining a task is one of the most critical parts of software development. I have come by a bunch of different ways to define a task.

https://www.something.io/well-defined-tasks-in-software-development

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Defining a task is one of the most critical parts of software development. I have come by a bunch of different ways to define a task.

https://www.something.io/well-defined-tasks-in-software-development

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Digital products can’t be held, tasted, or touched, but everyone consumes them—from music to videos, ebooks to online courses, and more.

https://www.shopify.com/blog/digital-products

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That childhood obsession transformed into an adult devotion to understanding how computers can be best put into service for human needs. In this article series I’ll walk through important, difficult problems in computing that don’t have enough attention or funding from the tech industry.

https://adamwiggins.com/making-computers-better/

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How This Fintech Company Built [a Rails app on Heroku] in One Weekend That Enabled $5 Billion in Small Business Loans [w/o k8s] https://t.co/SXsXiDrpv7

https://twitter.com/codefinger/status/1296573269588488192

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This story was contributed by MX, a financial technology company that helps banks and customers manage their finances. When COVID-19 hammered the U.S. economy, our team saw an opportunity to help people get through this time of financial uncertainty.

https://www.salesforce.com/blog/2020/08/fintech-sba-loan-ppp-app-development.html

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Hey Nathan! How did you get started in search marketing? I was at University on an entrepreneurship course that had an optional year in industry. The idea was that this sandwich year would give you the ammunition to produce a dissertation whilst applying some of the theory learnt in previous years.

https://blog.usepastel.com/post/how-nathan-elly-built-a-2m-year-agency-in-6-years

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The year 2020 will be remembered as the year when a pandemic struck the world, and sanity returned to web development. While these two observations bear no apparent connection, they actually have a causal relation.

https://medium.com/@minthesize/the-post-modern-web-stimulusreflex-or-the-renaissance-of-simplicity-9b0357738814