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Hi folks, I’ve just moved teams to be the only Senior Engineer on a team with two other engineers who are looking to learn better practices, a team lead who wants to improve the automated testing practices, and a PM…

I am a disloyal neovim user who is learning and configuring spacemacs, primarily for org-mode. I'd like to pair with someone more experienced. I own a copy of SICP and worked through a solid amount of it in scheme when…

Assume 1. A US Supreme Court Justice dies and a replacement is not confirmed before November. 2. A few US states like Florida have a sizable number of elderly registered voters die before November. 3. A state actor is…

Foldit, the distributed protein-folding game, can't run on iOS or Android because they cannot figure out how to compile Rosetta onto it. With a bunch of anxious people around the world just passively anxious about their…

I have inattentive-subtype ADHD. I am trying to learn how to become a reliable person who can: - Meet most deadlines. - Respond to messages from friends/family in a timely manner. - Keep physical spaces and info spaces…

How can I gain skill at advocating for my team to make technical or workflow choices? Patrick McKenzie's advice[1][2] is good, but what if the costs, risks, or revenues aren't large enough? What if my real reason is to…

Suppose you are an engineer who has identified what you reasonably believe to be a serious and safety-critical problem in what you are building. You have an ethical obligation to society to report that so it does not…

I'm a US Citizen living in London, so taxable by both HMRC and the IRS. The past few years, I've been working as a mid-level software engineer for a British YC startup. It was incorporated in Delaware but mainly…

Please lead with either SEEKING TUTOR or SEEKING TUTOR, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility. Please include a bit about your background and what situations you would like to confidently be able to…

Please lead with either SEEKING TUTOR or SEEKING TUTOR, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility. Please include a bit about your background and what situations you would like to confidently be able to…

Hi folks, I’m a software engineer in London who’s been out of uni for 6.5 years now. I never learned how to prioritize my time. When I have a day with multiple things I could possibly focus on, I either ask my tech…

Hi folks, I’m trying to get back into doing side projects for my own learning. However, I have a problem and I’d like to know if I can trade money for a solution. Back when I was in uni or a new grad, I frequently…

Hi folks, I'm a mostly-backend developer who has long felt frustrated whenever I tried to work with CSS. My experience of working with it feels like that of a man struggling to open a set of Venetian blinds…

I've been trying to learn how to estimate programming tasks. Now, I understand from talking with multiple people at multiple companies that estimation is an intuition-based process. However, it occurs to me that perhaps…

I'm editing some developer docs for an international audience and, as an exercise, want to try translating them into the top ten hundred words in the style of xkcd. However, translating concepts such as API or POST…

I'm currently working on writing a tutorial on saltstack. As I think through the problems of trying to help someone else build a mental model, I feel like I don't really know enough theory of how that is done. It occurs…

So I've occasionally, upon trying to join an open source project, been told that the best way to get started was to write documentation for it. In fact, that if you're new you are a great person to write documentation…

what things can I read or habits can I adopt that will make me better at joining projects and getting to where I can usefully contribute? I found I was never really able to do this at the computer club at uni and have…