Thread: Crash! Bang! Wallop! Practice makes perfect

Crash! Bang! Wallop! Practice makes perfect (ols.wtf)

L 2 pts 0 comments by ols Aug 26, 2018 devopspractices Data / Databases / Infrastructure Productivity / Career / Business thread

Chaos Engineering and Disaster Recovery Testing at Sky Betting and Gaming, UK

Practice makes perfect, part 1 - Code kata (blog.feabhas.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by raymii Jan 31, 2020 practices Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Crash, bang, wallop what a picture – Shane Black's film writing techniques (theguardian.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by lifeisstillgood Dec 7, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

PLOS Biology: Best Practices for Scientific Computing (plosbiology.org)

L 2 pts 0 comments by ajdecon Jan 9, 2014 practicesscience Science / Math / Physics Productivity / Career / Business thread

Dropbox's hiring practices explain its disappointing lack of female employees (linkedin.com)

L 7 pts 13 comments by journeysquid Feb 18, 2014 culturepractices Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Worst practices are viral for the wrong reasons (haskellforall.com)

L 10 pts 0 comments by omnibrain Apr 19, 2014 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Nature Methods Journal makes transition to open science (opensource.com)

L 2 pts 0 comments by csantosb Jun 16, 2014 compscipracticesprivacyscience Programming Languages / CS Theory Security / Privacy Science / Math / Physics Productivity / Career / Business thread

From closed to open, the journal now embraces open science practices with the purpose of enabling true reproducible research.

What Makes Code Hard to Understand? (arxiv.org)

L 11 pts 2 comments by pushcx Jul 13, 2014 pdfpracticesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

How Microsoft dragged its development practices into the 21st century (arstechnica.com)

L 4 pts 0 comments by journeysquid Aug 7, 2014 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Why isn't verification standard practice? (cl.cam.ac.uk)

L 8 pts 0 comments by craigstuntz Aug 21, 2014 compscipractices Programming Languages / CS Theory Productivity / Career / Business thread

The Game Outcomes Project, Part 4: Crunch Makes Games Worse (gamasutra.com)

L 12 pts 2 comments by pushcx Jan 20, 2015 culturegamespractices Gaming / Retro Computing Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Software Engineering Principles and Practices Exam Specifications (cdn.ncees.org)

L 1 pts 1 comments by mikemccracken Feb 27, 2015 pdfpracticesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Topics and Section descriptions for the NCEES Software Engineering [PE Exam](http://ncees.org/exams/pe-exam/). I'm just learning about this. As I understand it, it is currently being used to formally license Software Engineers in the US. The methodology is described in this (paywalled) paper from...

Code review best practices (glen.nu)

L 12 pts 7 comments by kb Apr 22, 2015 practices Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

This is really, really good. I shoot for the top 10-20% of code reviewers/review turnaround time wherever I'm at. Unfortunately you can't really measure it, at least when you're hiring or looking for a new position. (although maybe... you could set up webhooks w/ github to publish data on turnaro...

Common Agile Practice Isn’t for Startups (jpattonassociates.com)

L 11 pts 0 comments by SeanTAllen Apr 25, 2015 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread

Happy, Sad, Evil, Weird: Putting Use Case Planning Into Practice (blog.engineyard.com)

L 2 pts 0 comments by fluxusfrequency May 19, 2015 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread

“...no one can hack my mind”: Comparing Expert and Non-Expert Security Practices (usenix.org)

L 11 pts 0 comments by pushcx Jul 31, 2015 pdfpracticessecurity Security / Privacy Productivity / Career / Business thread

Database versioning best practices (enterprisecraftsmanship.com)

L 11 pts 2 comments by pushcx Aug 10, 2015 databasespractices Data / Databases / Infrastructure Productivity / Career / Business thread

Best practices for a new Go developer (medium.com)

L 8 pts 8 comments by pushcx Sep 2, 2015 gopracticesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Do Programmers Practice Computer Science? (daedtech.com)

L 14 pts 1 comments by jitterted Oct 23, 2015 compscipractices Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Science / Math / Physics Productivity / Career / Business thread

How People Come to Believe That Completely Messed Up Practices Are Normal (danluu.com)

L 10 pts 3 comments by mgaudet Dec 30, 2015 culturepracticesrantrelease Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

"Real Options" Underlie Agile Practices (2007) (infoq.com)

L 2 pts 0 comments by jitterted Jan 25, 2016 financepractices Productivity / Career / Business thread

Since "derivatives" came up in another post on Conceptual debt, I thought I'd put this here. There's been a fair amount of work in this area, though I've not kept up.

React makes you sad? (github.com)

L 14 pts 0 comments by joshuacc Mar 5, 2016 javascriptpractices Web Development Productivity / Career / Business thread

React makes me sad (medium.com)

L 4 pts 4 comments by L8D Mar 7, 2016 culturejavascriptpractices Web Development Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Why linting makes me yawn (medium.com)

L 12 pts 10 comments by joshuacc Mar 22, 2016 compilerspractices Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming Languages / CS Theory Productivity / Career / Business thread

What popular "best practices" are not always best, and why? (2010) (programmers.stackexchange.com)

L 2 pts 2 comments by bigdeddu Mar 30, 2016 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Hyper Modular Packages: A Crazy Cult or a Reasonable Practice? (thefullstack.xyz)

L 4 pts 10 comments by dortzur Apr 4, 2016 javascriptpractices Web Development Productivity / Career / Business thread

Worst practices should be hard (haskellforall.com)

L 18 pts 2 comments by jonschoning Apr 11, 2016 haskellpracticesprogramming Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Productivity / Career / Business thread

What makes a competent software engineer? Let’s find out. (medium.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by antifuchs Apr 11, 2016 practices Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Go best practices, six years in (peter.bourgon.org)

L 16 pts 1 comments by mulander May 1, 2016 gopractices Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Infinite Scrolling Best Practices (uxplanet.org)

L 9 pts 6 comments by jitterted Jun 6, 2016 mobilepracticesweb Web Development Productivity / Career / Business thread

Don't do infinite scrolling on a web site, but if you have to, these are some good guidelines. Mobile infinite scrolling is more useful, so follow the guidelines here.