Our articles and podcast episodes on software engineering, management and collaboration.
Episode 2 covers the topic of accepting feedback with Emily Nakashima (@eanakashima on Twitter). Emily manages the engineering and design teams at a small developer tools startup called Honeycomb.io. Before Honeycomb, Emily worked at a string of...
Episode 1 covers the topic of “managing up” with Marco Rogers (@polotek on Twitter). Marco was previously an engineering manager and director at companies like Yammer, Clover Health, and Lever, and is now happily writing code for Mode Analytics. ...
It took me a long time to understand the joys of pair programming. When I took my first computer programming class in the 1990s, computers were a limited resource. The newer, better computers were used by two people together. I took a significa...
Earlier this month, Betsy and I tried to live stream a pairing session and failed miserably. But! We had fun, so we spent about 30m performing a retrospective on our Debugging a Race Condition in Cypress event. To expose our ignorance (and therefo...
Notabli reached out to us the day after Christmas because their API was falling over. Their Friendly Engineer, Ty Rauber was working hard with their Head of Product, Jackson Latka, to bring it back up. They wanted a second pair of programmer-eyes,...
