Programming

"Dev burnout drastically decreases when your team actually ships things on a regular basis. Burnout primarily comes from toil, rework and never seeing the end of projects." This was by far the the best lesson I learned this year and finally tracked down the the talk it was from. Hope it helps.
https://devinterrupted.substack.com/p/the-best-solution-to-burnout-weve

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Substack

The Best Solution to Burnout We’ve Ever Heard | A Conversation With Slack, Netlify & Ambassador Labs

Featuring the best minds from Slack, Netlify and Ambassador Labs, this panel on Inspiring Engineering Leaders & Driving Developer Creativity turned into one of the best conversations we’ve ever heard on topics like dev toil, dev focus and dev burnout.

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Programming

The Bitter Truth: Python 3.11 vs Cython vs C++ Performance for Simulations
https://medium.com/agents-and-robots/the-bitter-truth-python-3-11-vs-cython-vs-c-performance-for-simulations-babc85cdfef5

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Medium

The Bitter Truth: Python 3.11 vs Cython vs C++ Performance for Simulations

A speed comparison using a scientific simulation. Is Python finally ready for this task?

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Programming

The Matrix Holiday Update 2022: "We are witnessing a classic tragedy of the commons."
https://matrix.org/blog/2022/12/25/the-matrix-holiday-update-2022

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matrix.org

The Matrix Holiday Update 2022

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

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Programming

Fast memcpy, A System Design Proposal
https://www.sigarch.org/fast-memcpy-a-system-design/

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SIGARCH

Fast memcpy, A System Design

When I worked at Google, fleet-wide profiling revealed that 25-35% of all CPU time was spent just moving bytes around: memcpy, strcmp, copying between user and kernel buffers in network and disk I/…

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Programming

8 Hard Truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job
https://www.stevenbuccini.com/8-hard-truths-on-getting-laid-off

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Steven Buccini

8 Hard Truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job

I got laid off from a software engineering job in April of 2020.

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Programming

haystack - your own google for scattered workplace knowledge
https://haystack.it

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haystack.it

haystack.it - This website is for sale! - haystack Resources and Information.

This website is for sale! haystack.it is your first and best source for all of the information you’re looking for. From general topics to more of what you would expect to find here, haystack.it has it all. We hope you find what you are searching for!

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Programming

How Digital Ocean got millions of monthly readers by understanding developers
https://growtika.com/digital-ocean-seo-analysis/

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Growtika

The Digital Ocean Quest Towards New Lands - Digital Ocean SEO Analysis

We analyzed Digital Ocean to understand where its traffic comes from, how it grew so fast, and the marketing decisions made along the way.

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Programming

The worst-selling Microsoft software product of all time: OS/2 for the Mach 20
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20221226-00/?p=107615

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Microsoft News

The worst-selling Microsoft software product of all time: OS/2 for the Mach 20

Count 'em on one hand.

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Programming

There is no secure software supply-chain.
https://onengineering.substack.com/p/there-is-no-secure-software-supply

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On Engineering

There is no secure software supply-chain.

Years ago, entrepreneurs and innovators predicated that “software would eat the world”. And to little surprise, year after year, the world has become more and more reliant on software solutions. Often times, that software is (or indirectly depends on) some…

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Programming

"Nothing's more damaging in programming right now than the 'shipping at all costs' mantra. Not only does it create burnout factories, it loads teams with tech debt only the people who leave from burnout can tackle." Saw devs posting their favorite lessons from 2022. This was mine unfortunately.
https://devinterrupted.substack.com/p/the-dangers-of-shipping-at-all-costs

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Dev Interrupted

The Dangers of Shipping at All Costs w/ CEO & Cofounder of 33 Teams, Drew McManus

In a field like engineering, to have a truly unique 30,000-feet view of the profession, you need someone with 30 years of experience in adapting, innovating and creating in the space. That’s why we were so excited to talk to Drew McManus, CEO and Cofounder…

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Programming

Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
https://fasterthanli.me/articles/lies-we-tell-ourselves-to-keep-using-golang

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fasterthanli.me

Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang

In the two years since I've posted I want off Mr Golang's Wild Ride, it's made the rounds time and time again, on Reddit, on Lobste.rs, on HackerNews, and elsewhere. And every time, it elicits the ...

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Programming

Golang is evil on shitty networks
https://withinboredom.info/blog/2022/12/29/golang-is-evil-on-shitty-networks/

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