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A Python project checklist

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All the best practices for setting up a new app in Python

Test coverage only matters if it's at 100%

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All lines of code should be covered by a test or explicitly excluded from test coverage.

The great microservices migration

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How did Uber go from a 450,000 lines monolithic Python application to more than 1,000 microservices?

Negative feedback antipatterns

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Untargeted feedback. Things you can't impact. Things you didn't do. Unspecific feedback. Only positives. The feedback sandwich.

10 principles for good code

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Taking inspiration from Dieter Rams' ten principles for good design, here are the ten principles of good code.

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Maslow's pyramid of code review

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Maslow's pyramid can help us think about what great code reviews look like.

Engineering managers’ priorities in a hyper-growth startup

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Grow the team. Maintain a vision. Manage projects. Organize. Code.

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Learnings from six months as a first-time engineering manager

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It's demanding. Empathy is required. You should keep coding. It's easy to make a difference. You can and should disconnect. You will grow through mentoring and feedback. It's incredibly rewarding.

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Code as Craft

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Let's take pride in our software engineering craft.

Resources to learn coding

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A list of resources to learn programming.

We should not ship code

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An engineer's job is not to write code - it is to solve business problems.

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Using qcachegrind to visualize Python profiling data

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How to visualize your code's profile with qcachegrind.

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Why I keep on using Vim instead of going back to TextMate

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Why taking the time to learn Vim is a smart investment.

Articles from Joel Spolsky about functional specifications

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Some quotable quotes about functional specs.