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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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Noah Hall
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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The tour guide and the librarian
A tour guide will show you around, and bring to your attention interesting details. A librarian will help you find the books on a topic you request…
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Working from home, the office, or remotely
Developers have generally always been more remote-friendly than most other industries. Post-covid then, many companies have started requiring people go…
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Answering questions as a learning technique
Whenever I’m planning to seriously invest an amount of time into a new technology, framework, library, or API, I try to immerse myself in the community…
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So you're an on-boarding buddy
A buddy cuts through the bystander effect, and gives a new-joiner who can directly help answer questions, big and small. A buddy is there to help…
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Personal context, the foundation of collaboration
How often have you shared an opinion or thought with someone you don’t know, but they’ve expressed an entirely different one? How did that turn out? A…
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Public speaking as a shy introvert
Despite being quite social, I’m a shy introvert at heart. But I’ve given quite a few talks, to both smaller meetups and larger conferences. It was nerve…
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