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When should a manager step in?
When and how to intervene as a manager
It's time to move your docs in the repo
AI agents address the remaining concerns with having your documentation alongside your code in version control
Write and checkout the plan
Why you should start your AI coding session with planning mode, and check out the resulting plan
A Python project checklist
All the best practices for setting up a new app in Python
Senior engineers ship and uplift
Senior engineers should be expected to ship business value and uplift others around them.
A functional style leads to simpler code
Taking inspiration from FP patterns leads to simpler code, even in languages that don't fully support them.
Starting a new job as an engineering manager
how should you onboard yourself as an engineering manager?
Test coverage only matters if it's at 100%
All lines of code should be covered by a test or explicitly excluded from test coverage.
Writing a subquery with SQLAlchemy core
Uses joins, select_from, label.
Pretty print JSON inside Vim using jq
jq + vim
Writing a correlated subquery with SQLAlchemy
How to use session.correlated()
Running pytest on modified files
How to run pytest only on modified files
How to align the last flexbox item to the right.
Aligning the last flexbox item to the right with margin auto
Latexify a URL with a Regex
How to latexify URLs in a doc with a Regex
The great microservices migration
How did Uber go from a 450,000 lines monolithic Python application to more than 1,000 microservices?
Negative feedback antipatterns
Untargeted feedback. Things you can't impact. Things you didn't do. Unspecific feedback. Only positives. The feedback sandwich.
10 principles for good code
Taking inspiration from Dieter Rams' ten principles for good design, here are the ten principles of good code.
Maslow's pyramid of code review
Maslow's pyramid can help us think about what great code reviews look like.
Engineering managers’ priorities in a hyper-growth startup
Grow the team. Maintain a vision. Manage projects. Organize. Code.
Learnings from six months as a first-time engineering manager
It's demanding. Empathy is required. You should keep coding. It's easy to make a difference. You can and should disconnect. You will grow through mentoring and feedback. It's incredibly rewarding.
Code as Craft
Let's take pride in our software engineering craft.
Resources to learn coding
A list of resources to learn programming.
Code is not the end
An engineer's job is not to write code - it is to solve business problems.
Using qcachegrind to visualize Python profiling data
How to visualize your code's profile with qcachegrind.
Why I keep on using Vim instead of going back to TextMate
Why taking the time to learn Vim is a smart investment.
Articles from Joel Spolsky about functional specifications
Some quotable quotes about functional specs.