Show, Don't Tell - Product Edition
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Tips for Technical Workshops
A few tips accumulated over years of leading technical workshops.
Bullshit Deadlines
Don't let bullshit deadlines wreck your organization's work quality.
No One Will Give You Permission
In a startup no one will give you permission, just go and do it.
Resolving Dialyzer Issues in Elixir
Until set theoretic types arrive Dialyzer remains a useful tool for catching type errors, but can be tricky to debug.
Logging Memory Usage in LiveView
Building and maintaining Elixir apps is a great, but you can accidentally use way more memory than you intended it to. Logging across environments can help that.
Prioritization is the Key to Fast Moving Teams
The key to moving quickly and delivering value as a team in a startup is ruthless prioritization. It's the acceptance of the fact that there is only one pipe and you can only get so much through that pipe in a given amount of time. So with that
Meetings: Status updates versus working sessions
Most people say they hate meetings. For the most part this disdain is earned. Meetings are almost always synonymous with status updates. These are almost always a waste of time. Your people are presumably literate. They can read and respond to updates, as long as you build enough slack into
Default to Public and Written
If you are joining a remote team or organization the most important advice you can get is default to having conversations in public channels.
One weird trick so GitHub doesn't wreck your inbox
When you join a new GitHub organization it can quickly wreck your inbox. Here's a quick tip to prevent that mess.
Delivery, not Engineering
Delivery is the combination of Product, Engineering, and Design, under one roof in order to focus on driving customer outcomes.
Curated Content August 2024
August was another good month for content. It was also the month I realized and was very disappointed in the fact that I hadn't written a meaningful post in over a year. So I am getting back at it. Articles Ignite - Rethinking code generation with project patching
Highlights from ElixirConf US 2024
ElixirConf 2024 was in Orlando, Florida again. Unofficially this year was LiveBook Conf, in addition to an always great hallway track.
On Hiring and Getting Hired
Some of the challenges hiring managers face explained to help candidates stand out.
Building Aggressively Helpful Teams
A simple two part trick to build teams that collaborate early, and often.