I regularly get emails from young people, usually those with an interest in programming, who are trying to make decisions about school and/or their professional futures. This post is for those young people. #from-pocket #itfttt #pub

In the late 14th century, the townspeople of Salisbury, England were summoned to their cathedral by a machine. It was a wonderful and strange device. It consisted of a collection of iron gears and wheels and bars, all arranged in a cube. It tugged endlessly on ropes hanging above. #from-pocket #itfttt #career #productivity #pub

The message of many things in America is “Like this or die.” — George W.S. Trow, Within the Context of No Context, 1980 The camera is a small, white, curvilinear monolith on a pedestal. Inside its smooth casing are a microphone, a speaker, and an eye-like lens. #from-pocket #itfttt #ai #article #fashion #pub

Last week I announced my new startup studio, Capital H labs, where me and a handful of talented engineers and designers are working on products that will help companies grow faster and more predictably over time. #from-pocket #itfttt #startup #pub

I work on a team that fixes complex systems under time pressure. My teammates have different skill sets, different priorities, and different levels of expertise. But we all have to troubleshoot and solve problems together. This is really hard to do effectively. #from-pocket #itfttt #productivity #programming #pub

Scrums are the most dangerous phase in rugby, since a collapse or improper engage can lead to a front row player damaging or even breaking his neck. — Wikipedia When I was growing up, cholesterol used to be bad for you. It was easy to remember. Fat, bad. Cholesterol bad. Salt, bad. #from-pocket #itfttt #agile #project #management #pub

When I was researching Digital Minimalism, I came across an interesting article written by Vlad Savov for The Verge. It was titled: “It’s time to bring back the dumb phone.” #from-pocket #itfttt #technology #pub

Here’s a funny thing about work: We spend more time with our colleagues than with our friends and family. Yet more often than not, we don’t really understand our co-workers—because being honest with one another is scary. When a teammate’s lack of organization annoys us, we vent to others. #from-pocket #itfttt #career #leadership #management #productivity #startup #pub

Designing complex applications is a challenging undertaking. Building applications that have both the depth to support complicated tasks and the intuitiveness to make it clear how to get that work done is a tremendous challenge. #from-pocket #itfttt #pub

The first time that Salvador Camacho thought he was going to die he was sitting in his father’s Chrysler sedan with a friend listening to music. #from-pocket #itfttt #health #pub

As the founder of Simple Analytics, I have always been mindful for the need of trust and transparency for our customers. We would like to be held accountable for our customers needs, so they can sleep in peace. #from-pocket #itfttt #article #pub

Successfully delivering on long-term engineering projects often requires structuring them around stepping stones that deliver concrete value and illuminate “unknown unknowns” rather than arbitrary milestones that only serve as project checkpoints. #from-pocket #itfttt #pub

I’m trying to read all the good writing about software design. #from-pocket #itfttt #architecture #programming #pub

At Honeycomb, we dogfood everything: we try to solve all our own problems using our own service. And like any young company, we’re moving fast and uncovering plenty of new problems all the time. #from-pocket #itfttt #o11y #observability #pub

Continued from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 1: The Long Tail. We recently released a new version of our API. As scarred veterans of building and supporting APIs, we made sure to retain backwards compatibility. Our code paths are versioned, but we’ve also versioned our docs to match. #from-pocket #itfttt #o11y #observability #pub

This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 2: Migrating API Versions. At Honeycomb, one of our foremost concerns (in our product as well as our customers’) is reliability. #from-pocket #itfttt #pub

This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 3: End-to-end Failures. As Honeycomb matures, we try to roll out changes as smoothly as possible to minimize surprise on the part of our customers. #from-pocket #itfttt #o11y #observability #pub

When we’re talking with people about how they should start using Honeycomb, many ask for guidance about what should go into an event. Though there are longer posts on this blog about what it means to be an event, this one is a “short” list of things to consider when you’re building events. #from-pocket #itfttt #o11y #observability #pub

What should you log? When your systems break, it’s great to be able to look at what they were doing just before they broke. A log is a common solution. But hands up if you’ve come across a log that looks like this: #from-pocket #itfttt #o11y #observability #pub

Configuration management is a hard, unsolved problem. When we first started Argo CD, a GitOps deployment tool for Kubernetes, we knew we had to limit its scope to a deployment tool and not go anywhere near config management. #from-pocket #itfttt #ci-cd #devops #kubernetes #pub

Recently I wrote about sizing engineering organizations, and how you can think about it as an exercise in managing concurrency. #from-pocket #itfttt #career #management #pub

There's no question that frugality is an important part of personal finance — you can't outearn dumb spending — but trying to get rich by pinching pennies is like trying to win a car race by conserving gas. If you want to reach the finish line fast, you can't be shy with the accelerator! #from-pocket #itfttt #financial-freedom #pub

When it comes to selecting the right cutting board, you've got a few options for materials. The worst are made of glass or marble. #from-pocket #itfttt #cooking #pub

Observability-driven development requires both rich query capabilities and sufficient instrumentation in order to capture the nuances of developers’ intention and useful dimensions of cardinality. #from-pocket #itfttt #o11y #observability #pub

Business is noisy. Business is full of people worrying loudly about projects, process, and other people. These people have opinions and they share them all over the place — all the time. #from-pocket #itfttt #1on1 #pub