Decision Impact

I think a critical part of building an empathetic engineering culture is understanding decision impact. This is a blind spot that I see happening a lot: a deliberate effort to understand the effects caused by a decision. How does adopting X affect operations? Does our dev tooling support this? Is this architecture supported by our current infrastructure? […]

Facebook launches Yarn, a JavaScript package manager built for speed

Facebook launches Yarn, a JavaScript package manger built for speed Facebook has launched Yarn, an open source JavaScript package manager that promises faster and more reliable installs than the massively popular npm. The company says its new creation is capable of reducing install times from several minutes to just seconds in some cases – depnding […]

This handy app automatically schedules Slack messages so your entire team sees them

This handy app automatically schedules Slack messages so your entire team sees them Slack is great for communicating with your entire team no regardless of whether you’re in the same room together or working remotely. But if you use a common chat channel to ping your group, there’s a chance that your message will get […]