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123dev #41: Skills, stories, and software every dev should know
October 12, 2021
Hi, This will be the last issue that goes out through Buttondown. After this week I will have completed my transfer of all posts over to Revue and I will be...
123dev #40: Skills, stories, and software every dev should know
October 5, 2021
via reddit Share this gif Comments Laying a trap for yourself I have lost track of how many times I’ve patched a bug only to have it come back and hit me in...
123dev #39: Skills, stories, and software every dev should know
September 28, 2021
via reddit Share this gif Comments People will game I twice had lunch with Ed Catmull at Disney and I asked him if there was anything that surprised him...
123dev #38: Skills, stories, and software every dev should know
September 21, 2021
Just a quick note, I'm not going to create unique titles for the newsletter anymore. I don't think it added any value and I didn't like doing it. Partially...
Exponential growth and shipping
September 14, 2021
via reddit Share this gif Comments Shipping products This past week I was part of the team that launched EKS Anywhere. Launching an open source project was...
Tools and workflows
September 8, 2021
via reddit Share this gif Comments Tools you’re familiar with The right tool for the job isn’t always the best tool. Some tools are made for a specific...
Mental health is health
August 31, 2021
via gifmemes Share this gif Comments Stress As a junior developer you get assigned work and have to implement it and solve problems within a certain scope....
The importance of docs
August 24, 2021
via reddit Share this gif Comments Puzzling Growing up my dad loved puzzles. He had the weirdest rule that I never understood. No matter how many pieces the...
Climbing the corporate ladder
August 17, 2021
via reddit Share this gif Comments Stealing The Corner Office I listened to this book and here are the action items to help you climb the career ladder into...
Please stop building custom CD tools
August 10, 2021
via reddit Share this gif Comments Your build tools are great, but no one wants to learn them I've never worked somewhere that had a completely off-the-shelf...
No code mo problems
August 3, 2021
via reddit Share this gif Comments Cher Ami Cher Ami was a messenger pigeon used by the American army in France during WWI. A battalion of 550 troops was...
Resiliency and new domains
July 27, 2021
via reddit Share this gif Comments Resiliency Code and systems break all the time. At a certain scale it's important that your start building software that...
What it's like to ship products
July 20, 2021
via reddit Share this gif Comments An industry secret For all the automation the technology industry prides itself in there’s still a lot of it that’s...
Working faster not harder
July 13, 2021
via reddit Share this gif Comments Code generators Lots of people recommend learning to program by starting with fundamentals. Learn the basic language...
Be kind and AWS Infinidash 🌩️
July 6, 2021
via YouTube Share this gif Comments Silent stories The ability to educate with stories is something humans are very good at. Videos are just a new(ish)...
Reliability is the most important feature
June 29, 2021
via reddit Share this gif Comments Simplicity vs User Experience Why do fans have that weird nob to turn on oscillation but they have buttons for speed...
Integration Test Email #25
June 22, 2021
via reddit Share this gif <- If you like this content I really would appreciate it if you tweeted this post. There aren’t a lot of subscribers but you can...
Declarative and imperative
June 15, 2021
via reddit Share this gif Comments Declarative and imperative Oftentimes in technology we say declarative things are better than imperative. Why write a...
Nostalgia technology, DNS, and lessons learned as a senior engineer
June 8, 2021
via reddit Share this gif Comments Nostalgia technology Looking back at old technology products most of the time I think how bad they were. Occasionally, I...
🐱🕯️ Curious tools and resume tips
June 1, 2021
via reddit Share this gif Comments Curiosity Sometimes our curiosity gets the best of us. I cannot count how many times I've run a command, changed a config,...
When does software end? How do we get there?
May 25, 2021
via reddit Share this gif Comments End results When I think about how I create software it feels very haphazard. Some days are better than others but I...
What does complexity look like? 🕰️
May 19, 2021
via reddit Share this gif Comments Self made complexity Everyone is familiar with their own complexity. I’m sure this clock makes sense to the person who...
Kubernetes EU 2021 edition
May 11, 2021
via reddit Share this gif Comments Wings (1927) The gif is from a silent film that won the first ever Academy Award (1930). Ninety years later I would have a...
The feeling when your code works 🎉
May 4, 2021
via imgur Comments When code works Sometimes I’m equally surprised as this baby when my code works. Especially when I either do it on the first try or I...
Is magic real?
April 27, 2021
via imgur Comments I still don’t know how this works I was at Disney Animation when they first showed us the animatronics for the new Beauty and the Beast...
What does Blockbuster and misquoting Darwin have in common?
April 20, 2021
via twitter I had to make this gif very small to fit under 5MB. The full resolution video is on Twitter. Comments Survival In the struggle for survival, the...
Writing things from scratch and containers
April 13, 2021
via reddit Comments Planning work I'm sure many of you saw this gif in various places recently. There's lots of similarities that are obvious from a software...
Rolling upgrades and three links I disagree with
April 6, 2021
via ME! 😊 Comments Rolling upgrades The gif this week is the first of many I've made with a focus on teaching engineering concepts. It is part of an article...
Just say no ⚽😑
March 30, 2021
via reddit Comments Do you know how to say no? People often feel guilty for saying no to opportunities, but in reality you should say no when you really care...
Your code is on fire 🔥
March 23, 2021
via reddit Comments Shipping code that doesn’t catch fire Sometimes I push code into production that I’m certain will work well. Not because of test coverage...
Practice, handling errors, and some python 🐍
March 16, 2021
via reddit Comments Practice I’ve been on a diet and I’m pretty sure this cat has better sit-up form than I have. Just like anything we do it takes practice...
Hidden work, systems design, compensation, and faster learning
March 9, 2021
via reddit Comments Hidden work I never thought about how donuts were filled. I should have guessed it was someone's job, but I assumed it was automated. It...
Balance, free resources, lock-in, and whitepapers
March 2, 2021
via reddit Comments Balance Learning how to ride a bike requires you to balance in new ways. Riding a bike on a tight rope requires similar balance, and I...
Vertical auto scaling Daft Punk elliptic curves
February 23, 2021
via Ars Technica Comments One more feature It's difficult with software to know when to stop and release what you have. There's always one more feature to...
How to learn and three projects to try
February 16, 2021
via reddit Comments Company presentations and movie magic I often watch conference talks from companies that appear to be complete internal products, but...
🔒 Creating IAM and handling exceptions
February 9, 2021
via reddit Comments The weight of nothing Sometimes we make decisions in software and design that appear to have no impact on what we’re building. After many...
HTML, queues, and whiteboarding
February 2, 2021
If you have trouble receiving these emails because of the image size can you please let me know? I’m debating keeping the gifs as autoplaying embeds—how they...
📃 Make your resume stand better and write your docs with symantic line breaks
January 26, 2021
via reddit Comments Open Source There’s been a lot of open source news this week between my current employer and Elastic. I have nothing to do with it...
AWS as a framework, pair terminals, and bash script template
January 19, 2021
via reddit Comments Learning to code The more programming languages I learn the more it resembles human language for me. It takes a lot of practice to write...
Learning new things and developer productivity
January 12, 2021
via reddit Comments Learning new things The gif reminded me of what it feels like to be new to something. You think you know where you're going, you start to...
Welcome to 123 dev!
January 5, 2021
Welcome to 123 dev Since this is the 0th newsletter I'll explain how it works. I'd like to help you learn development or become a better developer. I also...