Erik Bernhardsson

JUNE 4, 2015

Note: this post is full of pseudo-psychology and highly speculative content. I would come in at 9am thinking about some fun problem, then get completely sucked into it. Programmers are the most irrational people I know and I think they are really driven by more of a irrational, System 1 kind of thinking, the pattern matching brain.

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Erik Bernhardsson

JUNE 4, 2015

Note: this post is full of pseudo-psychology and highly speculative content. I would come in at 9am thinking about some fun problem, then get completely sucked into it. Programmers are the most irrational people I know and I think they are really driven by more of a irrational, System 1 kind of thinking, the pattern matching brain.

Software Review 100

Software Review Systems Review Machine Learning Artificial Inteligence 100

Code Simplicity

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Instead of saying “This deadline prevents me from writing simple code,” one could equally say, “I am not a fast-enough programmer to make this simple.” ” That is, the faster you are as a programmer, the less your code quality has to be affected by deadlines. This is why!

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MARCH 2, 2020

Why does diversity in tech still matter in 2020? Why does diversity hiring in tech still matter in 2020? Also, resumes can never tell you if the candidate codes well or not which is another reason why you should probably do away with them. How to limit bias in your tech hiring process? 7 ways to increase diversity in tech.

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Ruminations of a Programmer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Very frequently I come across posts of the form Language X for Language Y programmers. It's not that there is anything wrong with them, but, more often than not, the underlying tone of such posts is to highlight some apparent (and often misconstrued) similarities between the two languages.

Programming 42

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Code Simplicity

OCTOBER 9, 2018

One question that people ask me all the time is, “How do I become a programmer?” But usually, only one of those is the recommended way, either in terms of the most modern way to do it in your programming language, or the best practices that the community of programmers have agreed on based on experience. Find the Best Way.

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Code Simplicity

JANUARY 3, 2017

So how would you measure the production of a programmer? Why Not “Lines of Code?” I understand why people have tried to do this—it seems to be something that you can measure, so why not keep track of it? Part of the trick here is: “Computer programmer” is not actually a job.

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Coding Horror

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

It's been a while since I wrote a blog post, I guess in general, but also a blog post about video games. Video games are probably the single thing most attributable to my career as a programmer , and everything else I've done professionally after that. Sucks to be you. That game is Player Unknown's Battlegrounds.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Marcus: Oh, it’s going great, and as I’m at home alone, I feel relatively safe, although I’m not exactly sure why. Why would you do it that way? Why would I not do some research, right?” Good to be here, Marcus. How’s it going? So, let’s start with this big question. Wait a minute.

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Crafty CTO

MAY 1, 2020

This is the sequel to my post Shape Up Your Agile , about the book Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters by Basecamp ’s Ryan Singer. This post incorporates a number of quotes and hand-drawn illustrations from Shape Up. This post will focus on Shape Up’s approach to building. And shipping!)

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Code Simplicity

DECEMBER 1, 2009

A long time ago, I wrote an essay called “Why Computers Suck” (it was given the title “Computers” and “ What’s Wrong With Computers ” in two later revisions, and the original title never saw the light of day). What I didn’t know at the time was why programmers did this.

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The Programmer's Paradox

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

This post [link] by Mark Miller really got me thinking about principles. A GUI gone bad can suck a massive whole into a development project. So if you are going to build a GUI, why would you decompose everything into a billion little peices and then start designing the screens from a bottom up perpective?

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The Programmer's Paradox

FEBRUARY 10, 2008

My writing archives are littered with half-completed, mostly dead posts on the nature of expression. To get around that, this post is -- I guess -- a series of appetizers; hopefully enough to fulfil. There is a implicit covenant between the users and the programmers. They suck to varying degrees, but they still suck.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

APRIL 2, 2020

And so I thought, “Why don’t we test that? Why don’t we ask in the study about Definitions of Done?” Ron: It’s not the channel, it’s the fact that what the stand-up has devolved into is a status meeting, and given that it’s a status meeting, why not just share it on Slack?

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

AUGUST 22, 2019

You were a programmer I saw on Linkedin you were Assist Admin, but you started to talk about the transition and maybe how emotional intelligence plays in. You know this show is all about relational leadership and that’s why I’m so excited to talk to you about this sponsor, Humble Dot. Marcus: It’s quite academic.

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Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In the last post , I shared the books that I found worth recommending that I read in 2022. In this (longer) post, I will share links to the blog posts from 2022 that I think are recommendation worthy. Despite my general skepticism of many standard… There are tons of posts and books about being a line manager.

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