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Personas in open source communities
Open source is the collective energy of a shared interest in a topic. Some will be there because it's part of their work. Others out of personal…
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Coffee chats: getting to know an organisation
Randomized coffee chats between employees can help make everything a little easier. It makes collaboration easier if you know each other, even if the…
Feb 6
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Noah Hall
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January 2025
The future of programming languages
No, AI is not replacing programming languages (yet).
Jan 21
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Is Github a trustworthy keeper of our code?
In my various roles in different parts of the tech world, I see the tech industry struggling. Those training, implementing or creating LLMs have a duty…
Jan 3
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December 2024
Understand, embrace, and love your product's niche
Some of the most powerful words a creator can say is "if you don't want to use this, that's okay, because someone else does". It is okay to build things…
Dec 29, 2024
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How I handle incidents
This is a semi-unstructured brain dump on my approach to leading incidents in a big company. In a sentence: compassionate focused authority providing…
Dec 20, 2024
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Announcing Gobaith, an open source mood tracker for developers
Yesterday I open sourced Gobaith, a mental health tracker I initially created and used many years ago.
Dec 9, 2024
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Noah Hall
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November 2024
A walk-through of hackathon facilitation
I recently hosted and facilitated a successful sustainability hackathon, and I thought you might be interested in seeing my playbook and the rough…
Nov 11, 2024
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Noah Hall
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October 2024
Caching and news sites
News sites have two main traffic patterns: day-to-day patterns, and breaking news patterns. Caches play a big role in both, but the behaviour needed is…
Oct 31, 2024
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My guidelines for AI-assisted coding
Since AI-generated code is finding its way into production codebases, I thought it’d be good to summarise some guidelines I recommend to avoid pitfalls.
Oct 28, 2024
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Egoless engineering
I often ask questions I already know the answer to. I trust others with tasks that I'm sure I could do a great job on. But at the start of my career, my…
Oct 5, 2024
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September 2024
Facilitating technical disagreements with a joker card
Disagreements are incredibly important. In tech, disagreements can easily be found. Just post “JavaScript is the best functional language” anywhere on…
Sep 28, 2024
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