Season 1
The first "season" of this newsletter. Burnout, mental health, pairing, software.
How does anyone learn to test?
A Few of My Favorite Developer Tools
tldr is secretly the reason I’m writing about any of this. It provides example-based documentation for a ton of Unix commands. So if I run tldr sed, I get (among other examples):
The Mortifying Ordeal of Pairing All Day
I had to confront a lot of my fears about myself, sometimes every day. I had to learn to show someone else all the things I didn’t know, my limitations as a human and a software engineer.
Why I Set Up Honeycomb on Small Projects
What’s the point of instrumenting a toy "hello world" app?