🔗 How to ship fast

How to ship fast - by Ben McRedmond - Wrap Text by Equals Protect momentum Beware of prioritization Stay close to the design You should be wrong sometimes Only doers can plan what you work on Always plan the How There is no quality vs. speed tradeoff Capture inspiration

January 4, 2025 · 1 min · 49 words

🔗 Engineering Ladders - A framework for Engineering Managers

Introduction | Engineering Ladders This framework allows software engineering managers to have meaningful conversations with their direct reports around the expectations of each position and how to plan for the next level in their career ladder. The framework relies heavily on radar charts to visually represent the different perspectives and expectations of a given position: The chart shown above has the following 5 axes: Technology: knowledge of the tech stack and tools System: level of ownership of the system(s) People: relationship with the team(s) Process: level of engagement with the development process Influence: scope of influence of the position The influence axis can be seen as a different dimension since it is orthogonal and applies to all the other axes....

January 4, 2025 · 1 min · 128 words

🔗 Radarz | Team Calibration Made Simple

Radarz | Team Calibration Made Simple Build your team on this page and calibrate their level on their radar charts. See also Engineering Ladders: This site is inspired by jorgef’s Engineering Ladders.

January 4, 2025 · 1 min · 32 words

🔗 Coding Font by Typogram

Coding Font by Typogram Choose your favourite in a coding font shootout (don’t show the names to remove bias). My winner: 🏆 Fira Code A representative bracket for me: 🥇 Fira Code 🥈 JetBrains 🥉 Source Code Pro

December 26, 2024 · 1 min · 38 words

🔗 Postel’s Law

Postel’s Law | Laws of UX Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send.

December 18, 2024 · 1 min · 18 words

🔗 Laws of UX

Home | Laws of UX Laws of UX is a collection of best practices that designers can consider when building user interfaces. Aesthetic-Usability Effect Chunking Cognitive Bias Cognitive Load Doherty Threshold Fitts’s Law Flow Goal-Gradient Effect Hick’s Law Jakob’s Law Law of Common Region Law of Proximity Law of Prägnanz Law of Similarity Law of Uniform Connectedness Mental Model Miller’s Law Occam’s Razor Paradox of the Active User Pareto Principle Parkinson’s Law Peak-End Rule Postel’s Law Selective Attention Serial Position Effect Tesler’s Law Von Restorff Effect Working Memory Zeigarnik Effect

December 18, 2024 · 1 min · 90 words

🔗 Warm Handoffs :: Luckymike’s Tech Notes

Warm Handoffs :: Luckymike’s Tech Notes … generally the guidelines are: If someone asks a question in the wrong channel, and you know the right channel, link their question in the right channel, tagging them, and explain why you’re making the handoff, along with any additional context you have. If someone asks a question in the wrong channel, and you’re not sure where it should go, link their question in a shared channel asking who can help, along with any additional context you have....

December 18, 2024 · 1 min · 197 words

🔗 German Naming Convention

German Naming Convention Using as many words as necessary to clearly name something. Everything. I called this “German” naming convention as a reference to the fact that the German language is known for its compound words, which can become comically long and specific at times.

November 20, 2024 · 1 min · 45 words

🔗 FounderJar | Top Business Software (Comparisons & Reviews)

FounderJar | Top Business Software (Comparisons & Reviews) FounderJar helps you choose the right software tools to start a business and grow more profitably

November 17, 2024 · 1 min · 24 words

🔗 Fast git handover for remote pair/mob programming

Fast git handover with mob | Tool for smooth git handover. mob is an open source command line tool written in go mob is the fastest way to hand over code via git mob keeps your branches clean and only creates WIP commits on temporary branches mob has a shared team timer timer.mob.sh mob is on ‘assess’ in the Thoughtworks Technology Radar mob has VSCode integration

November 15, 2024 · 1 min · 66 words