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TIL That developers in larger companies spend 2.5 more hours a week/10 more hours a month in meetings than devs in smaller orgs

23 months ago devinterrupted.substack.com

“There should never be coding exercises in technical interviews. It favors people who have time to do them

23 months ago devinterrupted.substack.com

“In startups, your junior dev is more of a threat to security than North Korea.” Appreciate a security expert who knows startups shouldn't waste resources overdoing security when they still don't have product-market fit.

24 months ago devinterrupted.substack.com

“If Elon Musk wanted to destroy his developer teams, the quickest way to do it was stack-ranking developers and measuring lines of code” 1,000%

24 months ago devinterrupted.substack.com elonmusk

“A lot of my ADD-related traits that have always been considered negatives, are actually considered strengths as an SRE.” Funny, affecting interview with the CTO of Honeycomb.io - very worthwhile if you're someone coming with the same background as her.

24 months ago devinterrupted.substack.com

Study: Healthy dev teams are most commonly found in hybrid work environments, followed closely by remote-work companies. In-office orgs rank last.

2 years ago devinterrupted.substack.com

Completing the promise of CI/CD with Continuous Merge

2 years ago devinterrupted.substack.com

“If a dev suspects it shouldn’t be so hard to build things, they're right

2 years ago devinterrupted.substack.com

TIL "Hyrum's Law" is a based on Hyrum Wirght, a real engineer at Google whose coworkers - after hearing him frequently refer to an already known phenomenon without a name - referred to it as "his law." It's now the accepted name for it across all of engineering.

2 years ago devinterrupted.substack.com google

"Dev managers' most overlooked responsibility is to treat dev bandwidth as a valuable, limited resource

2 years ago devinterrupted.substack.com

Study: Developers spend over 4 days on average waiting for their pull requests to be reviewed by other devs.

2 years ago devinterrupted.substack.com

"Too many companies treat dev burnout like a 24-hour flu where they can just send a person home or tell them to take the day off." A trained therapist-turned-engineer reveals how she diagnoses healthy dev teams from ones doomed to fail.

2 years ago devinterrupted.substack.com

TIL About "Developer Ride-Alongs" - where programmers at "disruptive" companies spend the majority of their onboarding actually onsite with customers watching them and looking for solutions to their problems

2 years ago devinterrupted.substack.com

"Nothing is more damaging in programming right now than the 'shipping at all costs' mantra

2 years ago devinterrupted.substack.com

“Encouraging more organizations to allow their teams to contribute to open source is ultimately going to make those teams happier.” Cool research on how dedicating time for devs to work on open source projects has made them more engaged at work.

2 years ago devinterrupted.substack.com

"Dev burnout drastically decreases when you actually ship things regularly

2 years ago devinterrupted.substack.com

Study: Elite dev teams (ones considered to be in the top 10%) average cycle times under 48 hours, PR sizes under 225 code changes and a rework rate under 8%

2 years ago devinterrupted.substack.com

"To remove 90% of painful meetings from devs' calendars, you just need a system to find out what people are working on and when it'll be done." Funny conversation with the head of engineering at a unicorn startup on stupid things companies need to stop doing to developers.

2 years ago devinterrupted.substack.com