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How to Choose a Great Tech Hire: Beyond Algorithm Tests and Whiteboard Coding
I’ve seen too many hiring processes that focus on the wrong things. Teams spend hours on algorithm puzzles…
whoami: > 0xW3ston
Hi, I’m Youssef, also known as “0xW3ston” — a backend-focused engineer from Nador, Morocco. When I was a…
Introducing Accord: A Better Way to Make Technical Decisions
I’m thrilled to announce the launch of Accord, a platform designed to transform how engineering teams make and…
The First 30 Days: A short primer for engineering leaders joining a new org
Over my 2 years as Dictionary.com’s senior-most technologist—having inherited an entirely remote and geographically distributed team for the…
A dozen (or so) learnings from 15 years of software incident management
As a software engineer, dealing with incidents sucks. Getting that on-call page at 3am on a Saturday morning?…
Refactoring for Performance
I spend most of my time thinking about performance improvements. Refactoring is tricky work, even more so when…
11 Slides CTOs Must Present In Their Next Board Meeting
Board meetings could be a little tricky for a CTO. In an internal meeting, your audience would mostly…
9 ways to improve how you ship software
10x developers are real, and there’s more than one way to be a 10x developer. Perhaps the most…
The art of conditional rendering: Tips and tricks for React and Next.js developers
Conditional rendering is a technique used in web applications to selectively render a component out of a set…
How to update cURL
On October 3, 2023, the curl team preannounced a pending fix for a high-severity vulnerability, which impacts both…
