Measuring Developer Productivity via Humans

Measuring Developer Productivity via Humans
22 minutes by Abi Noda

Organizations should prioritize measuring developer productivity using data from humans, rather than data from systems.

Aikido Security: A central control center for your web app's security
sponsored by Aikido

When you’re building an application, you're guaranteed to run into many vulnerabilities & security issues. Getting a complete overview can be very cumbersome and time consuming. What’s even more important is to know which issues will get you hacked  - and need to be fixed fast. Aikido gives you a full overview in just a few minutes.

Why you need a "WTF Notebook"
9 minutes by Nat Bennett

There's a very specific reputation I want to have on a team: "Nat helps me solve my problems. Nat gets things I care about done."

Just and But
3 minutes by John Cutler

In the past, I've written about how the word "just" is seductive. We just need to _________! But "but" is also seductive. Given any proposal, you can always find a but. But did we consider ________? But what about _______?

Platform Support
6 minutes by Stay Saasy

Supporting multiple platforms can be a repetitive and boring problem, or a fun challenge.

How to send progress updates
3 minutes by Slava Akhmechet

If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.

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