Good software development habits | Zarar’s blog Home Me Subscribe 05 Sep, 2024 This post is not advice, it’s what’s working for me. It’s easy to pick up bad habits and hard to create good ones. Writing down what’s working … Read more
Setting expectations for software engineers is tricky for all managers. Every company has different needs and a different structure, tech stack, and culture. Whenever someone joins a team, one of the manager’s challenges is aligning the organization’s expectations with those … Read more
Download PDF
Explore the interactive heatmap of total compensation pay ranges across the United States, organized by DMA regions and accompanied by a color-coded legend Click into a region and uncover insights on salary percentiles, breakdown of total compensation components, and top … Read more
Writing software is dead, long live writing software! The world always changes. It’s the only true, everything else is guessing. People who’ve worked in tech for a long time know that things come and go. We’ve been through this before, … Read more
There’s a lot to be frustrated about contemporary software and the modern web. (If you are a software user and you are not frustrated, you can safely skip this article). There’s a lot to be frustrated about software, the cloud, … Read more
General Motors Co. is cutting more than 1,000 software engineers as the automaker moves to lean up its software and services organization, said a person familiar with the matter. More than 600 of the layoffs will be in Michigan, the … Read more
In 1968, at the first NATO Software Engineering conference, the term “software crisis” was coined. These conferences were pivotal moments in computing history, as they were some of the first efforts to pin down and codify the current practices in … Read more
I’ve got two great examples of this. Both I use to help control DNS on my local network. They’re open source, but I doubt anyone else is using it, and I’m fine with that. unifi-dns-scraper[0]: a simple tool that logs … Read more
Philip Hazel was 51 when he began the Exim message transfer agent (MTA) project in 1995, which led to the Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) project in 1998. At 80, he’s maintained PCRE, and its successor PCRE2, for more than 27 … Read more