Our articles and podcast episodes on software engineering, management and collaboration.
Earlier this year, Betsy and I sat down and wrote down a few dozen types of dysfunctional behaviors we’ve experienced while pair programming, then sorted them into categories: Taking up too little space (ex: lost but not speaking up) Taking ...
Ever since we created our workshop “Real World Refactoring”, we knew we wanted to bring it to the organizations that most need it: the nonprofits and community organizations that pour their hearts into making the world a better place. Unfortunat...
The other night my partner Chris asked me over dinner, “Betsy, how would you handle a call to a metrics library using async/await?” Chris makes developer tools at an e-commerce company. JavaScript isn’t a big part of the stack where he works, but...
In Thinking Fast and Slow, Dr. Daniel Kahneman introduces the concept of a fact-based, structured interview to mitigate the numerous cognitive biases that come into play when assessing an individual’s aptitude for leadership positions. This articl...
Ever get flustered talking about security? Wish you had a slightly clearer mental model when talking about whose who and what they can do? We've lovingly illustrated a zine that details the difference between authentication ...