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Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration.

“I don’t need to document my solution. I’ll remember it”

timezones, 60 min per hour, and 12 months is a bug and we only found hotfixes to make living with it work I propose a system where - 100 min. are one hour - 20 hours per day (10 for ☀️, 10 for 🌑) - 13 months, each has 28 days (+ intermissions) - every 1st is a Monday join me

Pro tip: use clickbait commit messages to get your teammates to review your code faster git commit -m “First she noticed a bug in production. What happens next will SHOCK you!”

Creative teams should be colocated. The rest of the company can be distributed.

Schrödinger's Plates: They are both broken and not broken until you open the door.

joker: if you kill me, you can save all these people batman: no, if i kill you, that means that i'm no different from you joker: batman: joker: have you ever heard of the trolley problem

Every new dev hire onboarding www.reddit.com/r/programmerhumor/comments/xb20ro

And of course, a meme. This one was our favorite from July 🤣 See you in August 👋 🧵✅[11/11]

Being honest is a better marketing strategy than a marketing strategy

Want to learn design, product development, sales, customer support, marketing, recruiting, finance, legal, and operations? Start a company.

At some point I made the decision to focus on foundational concepts; not features of a particular implementation; my tech career took off.

You can attract luck simply by sharing your work publicly.

The best résumés fit in a tweet.

Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.

I can't believe it: it's been 4 years since we launched @TransistorFM! I wrote down my memories of building and launching that initial version with @jonbuda, and reflected on everything that's happened since we launched (it's changed our lives): transistor.fm/anniversary/

Becoming a manager is often presented as the natural next step after senior – but for many developers, it can be a huge mistake that makes them (and their team) miserable. I wrote a new thing about weighing the trade-offs management vs. IC growth paths. leaddev.com/career-paths-progression-promotion/engineering-manager-or-individual-contributor-which-path-right

Going to do something off brand: this is my relationship advice thread. 😳 What I wish knew when I was 20.