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Learning incident response with problem sets
It’s hard to teach good incident response. A good understanding of how the system runs in production is essential, but how do you build that…
Blockchain explained simply
A blockchain is a distributed database. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin are all different databases. A blockchain node is a computer with an…
Keep incidents boring
The internet is full of exciting incident war stories. Tough engineering problems, solved under pressure by sleep-deprived developers. In an…
Acing the design interview
If you haven’t designed an actual system before, design interviews can be tough. Knowing how to work with a particular web service or…
Acing the coding challenge
How do you write a successful coding challenge? Unlike some nightmare whiteboard interview scenarios, typically a coding challenge is not a…
Writing good technical explanations
Software engineering is mainly learning. There is a great demand for technical explanations, and many thousands of books, talks and blog…
Avoiding worry driven development
Sofware dysfunction is more often motivated by anxiety, fear, worry and embarassment than it is by a lack of technical skill. Engineers…
Building multiplayer games with socket.io and HTML5 Canvas
I’ve been building crappy hobby games on and off for my whole coding life. One of my very first apps was a Visual Basic game - I was in…
Blockchain for beginners
Introduction This is a guide for developers who kinda sorta know what blockchains are for (making distributed crypto-currencies like Bitcoin…