Link: It’s Time For Unions In Tech
For far too long, contractors, people of color, H1B visa holders are treated as second class workers with no way to speak out as a collective.
Read More…Author: Tony Tam
Senior Engineer Manager, Engineering Productivity @ Splunk,
ImpactfulEngineer.org & SFBadminton.org
2021 Goal – Getting to top 6 contributors to AntennaPod app
I’ve had 39 submissions to my favorite Podcast App – AntennaPod in 2020. Which makes me #7 on the contributor list. That was a good learning journey for me. For the next leveling up to be #6, 140 of my submissions would have to be accepted. That would take 2.5 years given my current rate […]
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Distributed, with Matt Mullenweg: Episode 26: Jack Dorsey and Matt Mullenweg on Remote Collaboration, Finding Serendipity, and the Art of Deliberate Work
https://distributed.blog/2020/12/16/episode-26-jack-dorsey-and-remote-collaboration/ And I think I have three jobs, I think there are three reasons why the company hires me every day in my role. And the number one is to create a healthy team dynamic. That’s the interconnection between the members of the team. It’s the ‘how we work together’ it’s the purpose that aligns […]
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When engineers cared about the content and product
20 years ago, while I was the lead engineer for Yahoo News, I was asked to build a very basic feature to allow users to send news articles via a simple email link. That feature was simple: let users click on a link to send the news article with the URL, title and a brief […]
Read More…If in k8s setup you are seeing ‘completion: function `__start_kubectl’ not found’
Then follow this instruction, which essentially as a new version of bash and enable it in /etc/shells and uses chsh to change the user’s shell
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Best Christmas Gift
When I get an original drawing tailor to my favorite Teen Titans character from my talented artist daughter.
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Creating Software Is *Not* About Planning
What portion of your team’s time is spent planning vs. designing and writing and testing software? Even when you did a great job in planning, how often is your plan exactly on target? When you hit the target of what you plan after 3 months, is that plan still the right thing to solve? My […]
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The Cycle Of Creating Software
As software engineers, our job is to create useful services for other humans or other services that depend on our services. In the idealized world, we write software, deploy, and move on. In the real world, we have to think about Writing software Debugging our own software for bugs Testing it locally for the change, […]
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