GitHub's advice on using personal accouns
It’s a bad idea to have different accounts for work and personal, on GitHub. Even GitHub themselves, in their documentation, suggest using one account for everything.
Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
Nobody will pay attention, but this is a good call to calm the fuck down when it comes to going all in on agents.
Grief and the AI Split
I think this is an interesting take on something I touched on in a recent post on my own blog.
Subject access request Q and As for employers
Useful information regarding the right to access information held on you by your employer. While this is written as advice to the company, it's also informative about what you, as an employee, can ask.
The problem with 360-degree performance reviews
I'm very suspicious of any form of peer review in a workplace context, and this article does a good job of outlining why I distrust it, and any leadership that decides to make use of it.
Fuck You I Quit (@fuckyouiquit) on Threads
Quote:
Stop making me justify my paycheck
I don't want a yearly performance review. I don't want to spend two hours filling out a form about my "top accomplishments" like I forgot what I worked on all year. You saw the work. You paid me. That was the agreement.
I also don't want to invent five ways I should magically do more next year for the same money. If I mess up, tell me when it happens. If I'm doing fine, stop asking me to write essays about it.
Let me just enjoy the holidays and leave me be!
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
A take on the use of "AL" in coding that I find fits my view.
Conflicts at Work
I'm not sure I quite agree with all the content here, but I do like the overall breakdown. Having worked with some very disagreeable people, and having worked with people in a leadership position who could not handle any form of disagreemnt (I should blog my startup experience one day...), this does hit a few points I recognise.
Interruptions cost 23 minutes 15 seconds, right?
An intertesting dive into the history of the "common knowledge" relating to the impact of an interruption on someone (generally) working on code.
If you are useful, it doesn’t mean you are valued
"As you progress in your career, understanding the difference between being useful and being valued is very important. At first glance, they might look similar because the signals you get are more or less the same: a promotion, a higher than expected bonus, a special stock award. This is why it’s important to dig deeper and try to detect subtler signals."
Does employee happiness create value for firm performance?
Obviously the causation can’t be explained here, but there is unsurprisingly a correlation between employee happiness and company performance.
The question then becomes: does a company with happy employees perform better, or do better-performing companies treat their workers better?
8 great ways to annoy your senior engineer
This feels like something that's worth hanging on to and dragging out from time to time.
Hitting OKRs vs Doing Your Job
Interesting article talking about how, often, OKRs don't work so well in an engineering situation.
Ratchet effects determine engineer reputation at large companies
Article discussing the issues of progression within a bigger software development/engineering environment.
(PDF) How to Build Pride in the Workplace?
The question of "pride" in relation to the employee/employer relationship comes up a lot in internal surveys, in my experience. This paper seems to seek to take a fairly technical approach to understanding the importance and impact.
It does raise the more general question though: what does it really mean to be proud of your employer?
Taking responsibility - why UK PLC needs better managers
A report from YouGov and CMI on the state of leadership and management in UK businesses.
The announcement of the Textual CSS branch on HN
The Orange hate site’s reaction to the announcement of the release of the CSS branch of Textual.
Open plan offices are terrible for you
The evidence is overwhelming: open plan offices are absolutely terrible. For everyone. They make employees stressed, decrease team communication, and lower productivity. While there has been a lot of anecdotal evidence on this, recent studies have shown the real impact...
Translating slang and corporate-speak
Fun thread with some translations of slang, but also translations into corporate-speak too. Good chuckle here.
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