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10x Engineering | Money, fame, maintainable code

10x Engineering

Agile Project Micromanagement | Cognitive Dissonance as "Process" | Water-Fall with Stand-ups

Agile Project Micromanagement

Anchor | Eating glass on Solana painlessly

Anchor

Arbitrary Forecasts | Saying something so people feel better about giving you money

Arbitrary Forecasts

Getting an Arduino LED to Blink | Looks like it's back to pixels for you! | And Then Losing Interest

Getting an Arduino LED to Blink

Avoid Using Dark Patterns | Do. Or do not. There is no try.

Avoid Using Dark Patterns

Avoiding Data Structures | Just use HashMaps! | For Minecraft Modders

Avoiding Data Structures

Blaming the Architecture | Fundamentals of establishing a scapegoat

Blaming the Architecture

Blaming the User | You're a 10x hacker and it must be someone else's fault.

Blaming the User

Bloated JabbaScript Frameworks | Han ma boo-kee, keelee ka-lya dooka. Wadja da boolya ra 1.9 Megabytes

Bloated JabbaScript Frameworks

Bracket Placement | From Friend To Enemy In Just One Day

Bracket Placement

Breaking the Back Button | Ruining something the browser gave you for free

Breaking the Back Button

Breaking important stuff on Friday | When the clock hits five, that's your problem now | Just let the intern fix it

Breaking important stuff on Friday

Resolving Broken Dependencies | What did I do to deserve this?

Resolving Broken Dependencies

Building AI with HTML | HyperText Machine Icarning

Building AI with HTML

Buzzword-first Design | Fashion-forward development

Buzzword-first Design

Casual Sexism | Ensuring half the potential talent force feels uncomfortable and alienated

Casual Sexism

Changing Stuff and Seeing What Happens | How to actually learn any new programming concept

Changing Stuff and Seeing What Happens

Choosing Based on GitHub Stars | Depending on a vague popularity contest

Choosing Based on GitHub Stars

Useless Code Quality Metrics | Blindly adhering to arbitrary standards

Useless Code Quality Metrics

Coding Drunk | Thinking Outside The Bottle | Make Programming Fun Again

Coding Drunk

Coding on the Weekend | a frustrating hobby | it's like weekday coding, but pants are optional

Coding on the Weekend

Turning Coffee Into Code | It would be a pure function if not for the side effects on your sanity

Turning Coffee Into Code

Collective Intelligence | Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications

Collective Intelligence

Compile Again and Pray to Work | Because something may change

Compile Again and Pray to Work

JPEG compression | jpeg

JPEG compression

Using Convoluted Coding Practices to Piece Together a Somehow Functional Product | Gain expertise using phrases similar to "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"

Using Convoluted Coding Practices to Piece Tog...

Cookie Consent and Other Ways to Obstruct the Web Page | Because the Web isn't unusable enough yet

Cookie Consent and Other Ways to Obstruct the ...

Copying and Pasting from Stack Overflow | Cutting corners to meet arbitrary management deadlines

Copying and Pasting from Stack Overflow

Copying snippets from pages made in 2003 | No, no. That's not what I want.

Copying snippets from pages made in 2003

C++ profiling on Linux | Powered by Rolex | Bring your watch, mate

C++ profiling on Linux

My Code is Cross-Browser Compatible | and other lies you tell yourself | designing large-scale web sites

My Code is Cross-Browser Compatible

CTR+C CTR+V | Licensing Guide

CTR+C CTR+V

Whatever Dan Abramov says to do | Pure, functional, predictable, time travelling, handsome

Whatever Dan Abramov says to do

Deleting a dropped project | As clients minds change, so does your self esteem

Deleting a dropped project

Deleting Code | Oh how good it feels | Probably the most satisfying part of your job. Is that sad?

Deleting Code

Demon Extraction | A Guide To Removing Unwanted Evil Spirits

Demon Extraction

Destructive Git Commands | WTF just happened? | I hope you backed up your code

Destructive Git Commands

Developing in Production | The fastest time to market

Developing in Production

Drinking with Ansible | Running playbook again and again | Drunk from kvas

Drinking with Ansible

Drop Table | Now with user-generated content!

Drop Table

Endless Boilerplate | Hello, ridiculously complicated world

Endless Boilerplate

Everything is a Fscking DNS Problem | Editing /etc/hosts for a living

Everything is a Fscking DNS Problem

Excuses for Now Writing Documentation | Where's the fun in just knowing what the code is supposed to do?

Excuses for Now Writing Documentation

Exiting Vim | Just memorize these fourteen contextually dependent instructions

Exiting Vim

Explaining Monads to people who don't care | A dogmatic approach to nonexistent problems | Monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors. What's the problem?

Explaining Monads to people who don't care

Exploiting Goodwill to advance your agenda | why deny equal opportunity for all to contribute?

Exploiting Goodwill to advance your agenda

Fake news generation | Putting NLP to good use

Fake news generation

Throwing Faster Hardware At The Problem | Speeding up your software without needing to actually optimize your code

Throwing Faster Hardware At The Problem

Fear of Missing Out | If you're not running distributed Rust, Go, Elixir and Scala microservices with an elm front end, Apache Storm stream processing, and integrating with Facebook Messenger, Amazon Echo, and gathering machine learning data from my Samsung refrigerator, what are you even doing?

Fear of Missing Out

Finding Your Own Stack Overflow Posts | It's almost like you've had this problem before

Finding Your Own Stack Overflow Posts

Fitting Actual User Data Into The Design | People have names of varying lengths, who knew?

Fitting Actual User Data Into The Design

Fizz Buzz | Ensuring the futility of your interview process

Fizz Buzz

Forgetting how your Legacy Network Works | The art of excuses

Forgetting how your Legacy Network Works

Being Friends with Gay Furries | Learn to Accept That the Other Engineers Are Dogs

Being Friends with Gay Furries

Functional Thinking | Paradigm over syntax

Functional Thinking

Getting it to Work | Achievement despite ignorance

Getting it to Work

Getting "LGTM" Out of This Obstructionist Prick | The Essential Guide to His Mental Code Linter & Outdated SQL Performance Tips

Getting "LGTM" Out of This Obstructionist Prick

Good Enough to Ship | Letting your baby out of the nest - for better or worse

Good Enough to Ship

Googling the Error Message | The internet will make those bad words go away

Googling the Error Message

Googling for the Regex | The Internet will do the remembering for you

Googling for the Regex

The Guy Who Wrote This Is Gone | No comments, no documentation but 20 tickets

The Guy Who Wrote This Is Gone

Hating on Languages You Don't Use | Your taste, experiences, and objectives are the absolute truth

Hating on Languages You Don't Use

Hating Other People's Code | It's only a clever hack if you're the one who wrote it

Hating Other People's Code

Hiring Ninjas | Ninjas love open office layouts and unlimited vacation time

Hiring Ninjas

Holy C | Divine Instructions | Gods software temple

Holy C

Hoping Nobody Hacks You | Security by optimism and prayer

Hoping Nobody Hacks You

Hoping for the Right Interview Questions | Banking on the 10% you know without Googling

Hoping for the Right Interview Questions

Hoping This Works | Solutions that might fix the problem without breaking anything

Hoping This Works

Ignoring Deprecation Warnings | Maybe they'll just go away on their own.

Ignoring Deprecation Warnings

Solving Imaginary Scaling Issues | At Scale | Getting the wrong idea from that conference talk you attended

Solving Imaginary Scaling Issues

Implementing Dumb Features | When nobody has the confidence to say "No"

Implementing Dumb Features

Insulting SHA-1 Collisions | Leave unmistakable traces in the project logs | git log

Insulting SHA-1 Collisions

It Depends | The answer to every programming question ever conceived

It Depends

Kubernetes for beginners | Containers, that'll fix it. | What could go wrong?

Kubernetes for beginners

Learning Machine Learning | Better buy 12 more GPUs

Learning Machine Learning

Let's Put It On The Internet | Seriously, who's gonna find it? | A comprehensive guide to putting critical infrastructure online

Let's Put It On The Internet

Losing Your Will To Live | Code Maintenance Guide | The original developer isn't here for a reason

Losing Your Will To Live

Thanklessly Maintaining Open Source Software | Acting out of the goodness of your heart, or something

Thanklessly Maintaining Open Source Software

Making Jeff Bezos Richer | Why did I get charged $240 if I was just testing? | Depend utterly on AWS

Making Jeff Bezos Richer

Managing IP Networks | with Cisco Router | Help for IP Network Administrators

Managing IP Networks

Managing Managers | Dealing With Bad Managers | How To Fix What Your Manager Did

Managing Managers

Mastering the Go type system | Because "They are not capable of understanding a brilliant language". | if err != nil

Mastering the Go type system

Memorizing Six Git Commands | The popular approach to version control

Memorizing Six Git Commands

Microservices | Protecting yourself against gratuitous network layers | Their Prevention and Cure

Microservices

Excuses to Miss Meetings | Timing critical tasks to coincide with morning stand-up

Excuses to Miss Meetings

Moving Fast and Breaking Things | Just put the technical debt on my credit card

Moving Fast and Breaking Things

Taking on Needless Dependencies | Code written by some stranger on the internet is always perfect

Taking on Needless Dependencies

Excuses for Not Writing Unit Tests | Your application is a special snowflake

Excuses for Not Writing Unit Tests

Overwriting your teammates' code | "My code is better than yours anyway" | Be a team player

Overwriting your teammates' code

Making Your Own Parody Covers | Dont even leave Slack to do it

Making Your Own Parody Covers

Parsing HTML using Regular Expressions | The ichor permeates MY FACE MY FACE oh god no NO NOO | No stop the angels are not real

Parsing HTML using Regular Expressions

Pasting Code from Some Random 2012 Node.js Tutorial | It was the first Google result and you only live once | And Hoping for the Best

Pasting Code from Some Random 2012 Node.js Tut...

Winning Pedantic Arguments | Anyone who disagrees with you is your enemy and you must crush them

Winning Pedantic Arguments

Phishing | Professional Identity Theft Techniques

Phishing

Pointless Meetings | How To Survive All The Pointless Meetings

Pointless Meetings

Practical Testing | It worked fine three months ago | Just click around and see if anything breaks

Practical Testing

Pretending you know what you're doing | Advanced stack overflow copy pasting for beginners

Pretending you know what you're doing

printf() Debugging | Who needs breakpoints?

printf() Debugging

Solving Problems That Don't Exist | The Why's and How's

Solving Problems That Don't Exist

Procrastination | The Why's and How's

Procrastination

Rationalizing Your Awful Hackjob | Not thinking about how much pain this is going to cause in the future

Rationalizing Your Awful Hackjob

Redownloading the Git Repo | Paste the changes | Ignoring Git Merge

Redownloading the Git Repo

Regex by Trial and Error | Combining slashes and dots until a thing happens

Regex by Trial and Error

Remembering What to Google | How you get anything done ever

Remembering What to Google

Resume Driven Development | The passionate, functional, micro-serviced approach

Resume Driven Development

Rewriting Your Front End Every Six Weeks | This time you have definitely chosen the right libraries and build tools

Rewriting Your Front End Every Six Weeks

Rubber Duck Debugging | Figuring it out without wasting someone elses time

Rubber Duck Debugging

Adding and Removing & and * at random until rustc is happy | 50 essential concepts

Adding and Removing & and * at random until ru...

SAAS Addiction | Maybe there's an API for that

SAAS Addiction

Saturday | How to handle work saturation

Saturday

Scalable parallel computational models | It works on my machine

Scalable parallel computational models

Shrodinger's backup | The condition of any backup is unknown until a restore is attempted.

Shrodinger's backup

Getting Around to Security Next Month | Putting off critical tasks until everyone forgets about them | If there's time

Getting Around to Security Next Month

Self-Documenting Code | Who needs comments anyway?

Self-Documenting Code

Loosing files | book cover

Loosing files

Restoring shitty .ddl references | Inheritance isn't always a good thing

Restoring shitty .ddl references

Startup Success | TechCrunch Said This Was A Billion Dollar Market

Startup Success

Such Data | So DevOps | Much Cloud | Very Agile

Such Data

Surviving the Kincade Fire | Or how not to put your servers in California | Our website melted

Surviving the Kincade Fire

Talk Now Learn Later | A guide to bluff at the project meetings to look smart | All-in-one book

Talk Now Learn Later

Temporary Workarounds | Who are you kidding?

Temporary Workarounds

Testing In Production | Never worry about multiple environments again!

Testing In Production

Thankfulness | Recognizing how great we have it

Thankfulness

The Cyber | Great cyber, the best cyber, yuuuuuge cyber

The Cyber

The Importance of Backing Up Data | Oh god please copy | Copying from dying drives

The Importance of Backing Up Data

The Joys of Generic Parameter Types | Map<T, List<Map<? super Key, U>>> simpleMap | Java's Take on Abstraction

The Joys of Generic Parameter Types

Trivial Details | Perfecting the parts that don't matter

Trivial Details

Trying Stuff Until it Works | Software can be chaotic, but we make it work

Trying Stuff Until it Works

Upsetting Your Coworkers With Python | Using list, map, lambda, and filter on a single line

Upsetting Your Coworkers With Python

Useless Git Commit Messages | git commit -m "changes"

Useless Git Commit Messages

Using Open Source Software | That'll show 'em | Yelling at the maintainer

Using Open Source Software

Vague Understanding Of Computer Science | Probably be able explain a sorting algorithm if it ever comes up

Vague Understanding Of Computer Science

Variable Naming | The hardest part of coding | Shave Hours Off Any Project

Variable Naming

What is Ligma | Prepare for the worst

What is Ligma

Whiteboard Algorithms | Useless skills for interviews at public tech companies.

Whiteboard Algorithms

Whiteboard Interviews | Putting the candidate through the same bullshit you went through

Whiteboard Interviews

Keeping the Whole App in Your Head | Also known as "job security"

Keeping the Whole App in Your Head

Windows RAM forensics | Official guide | Navigating Task Manager

Windows RAM forensics

Using won't fix in your linter | How to improve your code quality

Using won't fix in your linter

Working with Users | I didn't do anything! | You broke it! | I don't see ANYTHING

Working with Users

Works on my machine | How to convince your manager

Works on my machine

Writing Code that Nobody Else Can Read | Does it run? Just leave it alone.

Writing Code that Nobody Else Can Read

Writing documentation | ToDo | Coming soon

Writing documentation

Z-Index: 100000000000 | Real World CSS | You've come this far, no going back now.

Z-Index: 100000000000

ZOOM account, I have one! | sharing my private information | who needs privacy

ZOOM account, I have one!

ACK | UNIX Power Tools

ACK

Angry Admin | Keeping Uppity Users At Bay | Find Your Inner Rage

Angry Admin