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Announcing: Egoless Engineering, a tech enablement handbook
I spend a lot of my time writing, reading, thinking. Often I write to solve problems: either my own problems, or to help others solve their own…
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Noah Hall
Hosting a vibe-coding hackathon
I recently hosted a general “Data & AI” hackathon at Schibsted, for all and any employees who wanted to join. It got me thinking about how vibe-coding…
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My guidelines for vibe-coding
If you do not know what you are running, you shouldn't be running it. Vibe coding is great for prototypes. Skip the cost of getting designers or…
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Code is just a tool
Lots of words are used to refer to software engineers: coder, programmer, developer. I’ve come to realize that’s probably a misleading framing. Software…
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Writing a re-org post-mortem
In 2016, our company began a big shift in how we worked with our technical stacks. In 2023, when the project was shut down, a colleague and I were given…
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Keeping your head up during tough times at work
My employer, like many tech companies, is going through cost cuts. But I’m not too worried about my job. I know many colleagues, many of them very well…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Why I prefer unconferences to conferences
I recently ran another unconference. To summarize the format: organized group discussions amongst the audience, on topics selected by the audience…
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