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    swyx
    Posted in Lindy Library

    10 Papers Every Developer Should Read At Least Twice (2017)

    This is from 2009 and is still relevant: https://michaelfeathers.silvrback.com/10-papers-every-developer-should-read-at-least-twice

    the HN thread has a lot more papers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27892076
    Jai
    Posted in Learning in Public

    CFP for EmberFest

    Hey, y'all!

    Just read the CFP chapter of the book. A mentor (and predecessor on my current team) recommended that I try to speak at EmberFest.

    I'm the only frontend dev inheriting 65K lines of Ember code (I've never written in Ember). Learning Ember has a steep learning curve and I'm developing a set of mental models to shorten that curve.

    Would love some feedback on my CFP.

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/14AogHocHbds3onnLyVryd8jFwSZMyFD2GcMmfPQhJgs/edit?usp=sharing
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    swyx
    Posted in DevTools

    a16z + Hashicorp + Aviatrix on Category Creation

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    • Has to be genuinely new category
    • Has to be simple terms
    • You want to have competitors - expansive enough to let people draft off of
    • Define the picture, define the market - marketecture diagram
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    Alex
    Posted in Learning in Public

    Writing personal career posts

    Hey everybody πŸ™‚ as I have got some free time having my family away for few days, I could finish up the second part of my career posts. They're basically three parts (up to now)

    I wrote the first one six months ago, and I could manage to finish the second one only today.

    There are many out there (I talked to many as well) who made the shift to development after many types of non technical at all careers (like humanistic or others) so I hope they'll help them understand that it's totally feasible.Β 

    I talk about what I learnt by my mistakes and progress. I'm trying to make it public so that more psychological barriers will come down.

    If anybody can give me any feedback it'll be greatly appreciated.Β 
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    swyx
    Posted in Podcasts

    Burnout Isn’t a Sign of Weakness with Dr. Christina Maslach [Screaming in the Cloud]

    • Workplace community: All the people whose paths you cross at various pointsβ€”you know, coworkers, the people you supervise, your bosses, et ceteraβ€”so those social relationships, that culture, do you have a supportive environment which really helps people thrive? Can you trust people, there’s respect, and all that kind of thing going on? Or is it really what people are now describing as a socially toxic work environment?
    • Reward: not so much salary and benefits, it’s more about social recognition and the intrinsic reward you get from doing a good job. So, if you work hard, do some special things, and nothing positive happensβ€”nobody even pats you on the back, nobody says, β€œGee, why don’t you try this new project? I think you’re really good at it,” anything that acknowledges what you’ve doneβ€”it’s a very difficult environment to work in.Β 
      • People who are more at risk of burnout, when I asked them, β€œWhat is a good day for you? A good day. A really good day.” And the answer is often, β€œNothing bad happens.”
    • Values: you’re doing work that you think is meaningful, where you’re working has integrity, and you’re in line with that as opposed to value conflicts and where you’re doing things that you think are wrong: β€œI want to help people, I want to help cure patients, and here, I’m actually only supposed to be trying to help the hospital get more money.” When they have that kind of value conflict, this is often where they have to say, β€œI don’t want to sell my soul and I’m leaving.”
    • Fairness: when things are going badly hereβ€”the mismatchβ€”this is where discrimination lives, this is where glass ceilings are going on, that people are not being treated fairly in terms of the work they do, how they’re promoted
    • Workload: Given the demands that you have, do you have sufficient resources, like time, and tools, and whatever other kind of teams support you need to get the job done.Β 
    • Control:Β  the amount of autonomy and the opportunities you have to perhaps improvise, or innovate, or correct, or figure out how to do the job better in some way.Β 
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    codsworth
    Posted in Learning in Public

    Creating content for dev teams

    Hello πŸ‘‹

    I'm a Stockholm, Sweden based javascript developer. Currently I'm trying to learn in public, and get better at creating content for dev teams to improve their dev experience and productivity.

    Just starting out but would love some constructive feedback on
    what I've posted so far πŸ™‚
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    darby slaton
    Posted in Learning in Public

    Become T, Comb, or Pear shaped

    I just read this chapter in the Coding Career Handbook. Maybe to touch on this in later chapters but I have a deep interest in learning about interactivity, animation, and design. Some of my heroes are Sarah Drasner and Chris Coyier. I would like to go deeper into this topic. What is the process that you would suggest someone go through to find out if there's a great interest in it? Obviously, there are courses on this topic but I wanted to have a process to evaluate the market in this area of my interest. Any insight would be helpful. I will continue to do my research. Your book is top-notch. It's such an inspiration and full of insight. One last thing, would you suggest a WordPress site to build a blog or would you suggest something like Medium start off?
    swyx
    Posted in DevTools

    Developer Velocity with Amanda Silver (CVP, Developer Tools, Microsoft)

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    Amanda Silver is CVP of Product for Developer Tools at Microsoft. She was one of the primary designers on the LINQ project (Language INtegrated Query) which incorporates query expressions and XML as a first-class types in .NET. She has been involved with Chakra, the JavaScript engine that powers Edge, since 2009 which was open sourced earlier this year. In 2012, her team launched TypeScript – a cross-platform, typed, superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript. Her team delivers the Visual Studio platform and Visual Studio Code. Unleashing the creativity of developers is her unrelenting passion.


    • Her team covers: Compilers, Programming languages & application runtimes, Tools & IDEs, Azure DX
      • eg TypeScript, VS, VSCode, .NET
    • "Everything I work on has to do with the fact that we have a massive developer shortage right now" - estimated 150 million tech/tech adjacent jobs in the next 5 years, vs <10m professional developers in the US. We need to mint new developers, incl more diversity
    • they are teaching Tech Resilience as a focus now
    • There is an absolute shortage of educators (eg professors and TAs) - because everyone moves into industry - they are working with Mt Holyoake to produce content on this stuff including growth mindset
    • Memorizing is outdated - search can answer all these questions
    • Knowledge base - tribal knowledge

    Importance of open source
    • Β allows you to build on the shoulders of giants. Focus on code that only you can write
    • Great for learning - learn how other people write code, learn how to help teams scale
    • But it brings everyone into your supply chain - so security is a problem. solving with dependabot
    • Microsoft's new approach to open source - started with TypeScript.
    • Took at least a summer to get approval to open source TS, now everything is default OSS

    Her focuses
    • Microsoft Learn & Global Skills Initiative with certifications
    • Codespaces - help developer velocity by provisioning dev machines. turn dev machines from pets to cattle.Β 
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    swyx
    Posted in Podcasts

    How To Grow Your Own Digital Garden with Maggie Appleton

    A great podcast here covering the Digital Garden movement from it's primary curator!

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    swyx
    Posted in Learning in Public

    #LearnInPublic Inspo Vol 19

    1. Write a blogpost on whatever is causing you impostor syndrome, with a disclaimer like this:
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    2. Create/draw an Illustrated Guide to some foundational industry topic

    https://www.gentlydownthe.stream

    3. Understand that everything is a Remix.

    Nothing is created completely originally. Copy, then tweak.

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    For example, you can copy other UI's and tweet what you do and learn as you go:

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    4. This career advice tweet thread.

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    5. Create the resource for something you need to self study anyway

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