Hacker News
- My boss says we don't need any engineering managers. Is he right? https://charity.wtf/2024/01/05/questionable-advice-my-boss-says-we-dont-need-any-engineering-managers-is-he-right/ 2 comments
- My boss says we don't need any engineering managers https://charity.wtf/2024/01/05/questionable-advice-my-boss-says-we-dont-need-any-engineering-managers-is-he-right/ 4 comments
- How to communicate when trust is low without digging yourself into a deeper hole https://charity.wtf/2023/08/17/how-to-communicate-when-trust-is-low-without-digging-yourself-into-a-deeper-hole/ 281 comments
- Reasons Not to Be a Manager (2019) https://charity.wtf/2019/09/08/reasons-not-to-be-a-manager/ 186 comments
- Friday deploy freezes are like murdering puppies (2019) https://charity.wtf/2019/05/01/friday-deploy-freezes-are-exactly-like-murdering-puppies/ 3 comments
- The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (and Bad for Business) https://charity.wtf/2022/09/23/the-hierarchy-is-bullshit-and-bad-for-business/ 2 comments
- Twin Anxieties of the Engineer/Manager Pendulum https://charity.wtf/2022/03/24/twin-anxieties-of-the-engineer-manager-pendulum/ 8 comments
- How can you tell if the company youre interviewing with is rotten on the inside? https://charity.wtf/2022/01/29/how-can-you-tell-if-the-company-youre-interviewing-with-is-rotten-on-the-inside/ 155 comments
- “Engineering-Driven” Leads to “Engineering-Supremacy” https://charity.wtf/2022/01/20/how-engineering-driven-leads-to-engineering-supremacy/ 2 comments
- Notes on the Perfidy of Dashboards https://charity.wtf/2021/08/09/notes-on-the-perfidy-of-dashboards/ 61 comments
- Why every software engineering interview should include ops questions https://charity.wtf/2021/08/21/why-every-software-engineering-interview-should-include-ops-questions/ 5 comments
- How to feel worthwhile as a manager when my people are doing all the work? https://charity.wtf/2021/01/23/questionable-advice-how-do-i-feel-worthwhile-as-a-manager-when-my-people-are-doing-all-the-implementing/ 5 comments
- Questionable Advice: “What Should I Say In My Exit Interview?” https://charity.wtf/2021/04/16/questionable-advice-what-should-i-say-in-my-exit-interview/ 6 comments
- If management isn't a promotion, then engineering isn't a demotion https://charity.wtf/2020/09/06/if-management-isnt-a-promotion-then-engineering-isnt-a-demotion/ 125 comments
- Engineering Management: The Pendulum or the Ladder https://charity.wtf/2019/01/04/engineering-management-the-pendulum-or-the-ladder/ 2 comments
- “After Being a Manager, Can I Be Happy as a Cog?” https://charity.wtf/2019/11/23/questionable-advice-after-being-a-manager-can-i-be-happy-as-a-cog/ 2 comments
- The Real Reasons I Don’t Hire You https://charity.wtf/2019/10/18/the-real-11-reasons-i-dont-hire-you/ 117 comments
- Reasons Not to Be a Manager https://charity.wtf/2019/09/08/reasons-not-to-be-a-manager/ 5 comments
- Friday Deploy Freezes Are Like Murdering Puppies – Charity.wtf https://charity.wtf/2019/05/01/friday-deploy-freezes-are-exactly-like-murdering-puppies/?__twitter_impression=true 9 comments
- Friday Deploy Freezes Are Like Murdering Puppies https://charity.wtf/2019/05/01/friday-deploy-freezes-are-exactly-like-murdering-puppies/ 4 comments
- The Engineer/Manager pendulum (2017) https://charity.wtf/2017/05/11/the-engineer-manager-pendulum/ 2 comments
- WTF is operations? #serverless https://charity.wtf/2016/05/31/wtf-is-operations-serverless/ 3 comments
- How to Survive an Acquisition http://charity.wtf/2016/02/03/how-to-survive-an-acquisition/ 127 comments
Lobsters
- My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers https://charity.wtf/2024/01/05/questionable-advice-my-boss-says-we-dont-need-any-engineering-managers-is-he-right/ 3 comments practices
- Love (and Alerting) in the Time of Cholera (and Observability) https://charity.wtf/2019/09/20/love-and-alerting-in-the-time-of-cholera-and-observability/ 3 comments devops
- Friday Deploy Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies https://charity.wtf/2019/05/01/friday-deploy-freezes-are-exactly-like-murdering-puppies/ 17 comments practices
- The Accidental DBA https://charity.wtf/2016/10/02/the-accidental-dba/ 2 comments databases , distributed
- Value of Dashboards in monitoring & observability https://charity.wtf/2021/08/09/notes-on-the-perfidy-of-dashboards/ 4 comments devops
- Software deploys and cognitive biases https://charity.wtf/2021/08/27/software-deploys-and-cognitive-biases/ 5 comments programming
- Bad managers are a huge problem in tech https://charity.wtf/2020/09/06/if-management-isnt-a-promotion-then-engineering-isnt-a-demotion/ 217 comments programming
- 17 Reasons Not To Be A Manager https://charity.wtf/2019/09/08/reasons-not-to-be-a-manager/ 55 comments programming
- Engineering Management: The Pendulum or The Ladder https://charity.wtf/2019/01/04/engineering-management-the-pendulum-or-the-ladder/ 10 comments programming
Linking pages
- Software infrastructure 2.0: a wishlist · Erik Bernhardsson https://erikbern.com/2021/04/19/software-infrastructure-2.0-a-wishlist.html 297 comments
- Top 67 CTO Influencers You Should Follow - Lemon.io https://lemon.io/blog/top-67-cto-influencers-you-should-follow/ 63 comments
- Building personal and organizational prestige | Irrational Exuberance https://lethain.com/building-prestige/ 20 comments
- Public Preview – AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry | AWS News Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/public-preview-aws-distro-open-telemetry/ 8 comments
- Incident Management: On-Call https://certomodo.io/best-practices/incident-management-oncall.html 5 comments
- 073: How to Make Eng Oncall (and Your Life) Suck Less https://jasonshen.substack.com/p/074-how-to-make-eng-oncall-and-your 0 comments
- Jade Rubick - Coordination models - tools for getting groups to work well together https://www.rubick.com/coordination-models/ 0 comments
- No More Feedback (book summary) – Jessitron https://jessitron.com/2023/07/03/no-more-feedback-book-summary/ 0 comments
- Writers who operate. | Irrational Exuberance https://lethain.com/writers-who-operate/ 0 comments