Our articles and podcast episodes on software engineering, management and collaboration.
I used to think I hated pairing. One of my first experiences pairing was with my least favorite co-worker. In my previous programming jobs, I’d always been the only Rails developer, or one of two, and we’d had a lot to do. Too much for us to be a...
Pair programming! As polarizing a topic as the Editor Wars. People love or hate pairing, and for good reason! It’s a tough skill with benefits that aren’t always immediately clear. It can be frustrating, feel slow, and even be a source of uncomfor...
Over the past 9 months, we’ve applied GraphQL and Rails as the API platform on client projects. Most of these projects rely on rapid iteration across both the user interface and the data model as we follow the signals for product market fit. Rails...
This is Part 3 of a multi-part series covering some of the topics introduced in our RailsConf 2018 Interviewer Skills workshop. Part 1 covered how to know what would make a candidate the right addition to your team, and why single-word descriptio...
Like many of you, we hold standups to sync up on what people are up to, surfacing and supporting through blockers, and getting in a little regular facetime. We’re currently on our third variation of the year for how we do our standups. Third va...