Jerry’s apartment hallway can’t exist. My entire childhood was a lie.

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Software companies aren't made of code. They're made of processes that produce and maintain code. And the foremost component of these processes are people. The code is just a by-product. More of a liability than an asset.

As a leader, it's important to prevent burnout in your teams. We sat down with Farhan Thawar, VP of Engineering at Shopify, for his take on how to spot burnout and how to avoid it on a team & individual level! Tune in here ➡️ bit.ly/3Ufo9mj

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What does technical debt feel like? Like every minor change sends you down a rabbit hole that results in you concluding you need to rewrite half the code.

Kontext #VJTF #Puma Kollaps. Längst vergessen, aber auch beim #Leopard2 war es zu Beginn (1980er Jahre) ein zähes Unterfangen, den Panzer versorgungsreif zu kriegen. 👇 Quelle: Leopard2/Frank Lobitz

The days are long but the years are short.

Just released a new version of my RSpec addons gem, with a feature everybody will hate, and some will find useful: github.com/zverok/saharsp…

Marc Andreessen (Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸), 30 years ago.

As a Senior or Staff engineer, how can you understand more about the business? Especially starting from the Staff level, getting a grip on how the business works - and how your team fits into the picture - becomes increasingly important to do outstanding work. A few approaches:

You keep using that tag: <link rel="prefetch"> I don't think it does what you think it does.

AWS just released mountpoint - an open ssource high-throughput file client for S3. Written in Rust! github.com/awslabs/mountp…

Great post by Evan Hubinger making the case for AI safety evaluations that are based on *understanding* how these systems work, not just on their behavior. This seems super important and I want to signal boost it lesswrong.com/posts/uqAdqrvx…

“If you don't have an Apple device nearby, you can set up an appointment at an Apple Store or with an Apple Authorized Service Provider to update your firmware.” AirPods are so popular that even Android users have them. support.apple.com/en-us/HT213317

Love this: At Stripe, their CTO David Singleton encourages all eng managers to occasionally clear their schedule (like a vacation, but not) and join a team as an IC engineer to get in the weeds and build stuff. He also does this himself.

Make product simple but effective. Always descope.

Did you know you can test a multi-user flow with Capybara and Rails system tests? Try the `using_session` block to switch between sessions. I've used this a ton to set workflows like User A submits something, User B approves, User A should see it as completed

We're moving Maybe to Ruby on Rails. We'll be creating a new "rails" branch on the main repo by the start of next week & then move it to main by the end of February. The React codebase will be moved to a new repo then. ...and you thought things were moving fast before. 🎉

Dank Passkeys ist die Zeit der vielen Passwörter vorbei. Denn mit einem Passkey weist ihr eure Identität über ein kryptografisches Verfahren nach. Erfahrt mehr darüber in #UpdateVerfügbar, z.B. auf open.spotify.com/episode/0Ko47J… #DeutschlandDigitalSicherBSI #UpdateVerfügbar #PassKeys