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“Can They Change My Contract?”: Protecting Your Workplace Rights in Japan

3 months ago

from TokyoDev in programming

Right now, the General Union is handling cases at Japanese tech companies where well-established workplace practices have come under threat. These...

The five stages of incident response

3 months ago

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog in programming

The scene: you're on call for a web app, and your pager goes off. Denial. No no no, the app can't be down. There's no way it's down. Why would it be...

Thoughts on Bluesky Verification

3 months ago

from Steve Klabnik in programming

Refreshed StaffEng.com and a few other sites

3 months ago

from Irrational Exuberance in programming

Ahead of announcing the title and publisher of my thus-far-untitled book on engineering strategy in the next week or two, I put together a website for...

SSEBITDA -- A steady-state profit metric for SaaS companies

3 months ago

from A Smart Bear in programming

How can a business that is "spending to grow" determine whether it's truly profitable underneath all that "revenue acceleration?" Here's a way.

You’re Only As Strong As Your Weakest Point

3 months ago

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog in programming

In April 1945, as US soldiers overtook Merkers, Germany, stories began to surface to Army officials of stolen Nazi riches stored in the local salt...

An unplanned upgrade to Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon

3 months ago

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal in programming

<![CDATA[I spoke too soon when I said I was enjoying the stability of Linux. I have been using Linux Mint Cinnamon on a System76 Merkaat PC with no...

On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of Embarrassment

3 months ago

from charity.wtf in programming

Brace yourself, because I’m about to utter a sequence of words I never thought I would hear myself say: I really miss posting on Twitter. I really,...

All software engineers should freelance or found a business

3 months ago

from Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io in programming

Many (most?) engineers go from university to a sizable company significantly distancing them from the actual value their code creates. They labour...

Why did Stripe build Sorbet? (~2017).

3 months ago

from Irrational Exuberance in programming

Many hypergrowth companies of the 2010s battled increasing complexity in their codebase by decomposing their monoliths. Stripe was somewhat of an...

The new Framework 13 HX370

3 months ago

from David Heinemeier Hansson in programming

The new AMD HX370 option in the Framework 13 is a good step forward in performance for developers. It runs our HEY test suite in 2m7s, compared to...

Beyond `None`: actionable error messages for `keyring.get_password()`

3 months ago

from alexwlchan in programming

I’m a big fan of keyring, a Python module made by Jason R. Coombs for storing secrets in the system keyring. It works on multiple operating systems,...

Kagi Assistant is now available to all users!

3 months ago

from Kagi Blog in programming

At Kagi, our mission is simple: to humanise the web.

Be Mindful of What You Make Easy

3 months ago

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog in programming

Carson Gross has a post about vendoring which brought back memories of how I used to build websites in ye olden days, back in the dark times before...

The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder

3 months ago

from Computer Things in programming

Short one this time because I have a lot going on this week. In computation complexity, NP is the class of all decision problems (yes/no) where a...

The value of "Yes, and..."

3 months ago

from Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io in programming

I love Ben Brode’s Design Lessons from Improv talk. It presents techniques that we could all use more frequently. I particularly took the “Yes, and…“...

Localising the `` with JavaScript

3 months ago

from alexwlchan in programming

I’ve been writing some internal dashboards recently, and one hard part is displaying timestamps. Our server does everything in UTC, but the team is...

Normal boyhood is ADHD

3 months ago

from David Heinemeier Hansson in programming

Nearly a quarter of seventeen-year-old boys in America have an ADHD diagnosis. That's crazy. But worse than the diagnosis is that the majority of them...

Rediscovering the origins of my Lisp journey

3 months ago

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal in programming

<![CDATA[My journey to Lisp began in the early 1990s. Over three decades later, a few days ago I rediscovered the first Lisp environment I ever used...

Thoughts on releasing our first indie game

3 months ago

from Alice GG in programming

Two weeks ago we released Dice’n Goblins, our first game on Steam. This project allowed me to discover and learn a lot of new things about game...

Typing instance variables in mixins

3 months ago

from Jake Zimmerman in programming