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Do best practices really matter?

Trevor Elkins

2024-04-16

engineering

Code: Align the happy path to the left edge

Mat Ryer

2016-08-25

engineering

Too DRY - The Grep Test

Jamie Wong

2013-07-12

engineering

Why is it hard to automatically suggest what index to create?

Hubert Lubaczewski

2021-10-22

engineering
databases

Common DB schema change mistakes

Nikolay Samokhvalov

2022-05-25

engineering
databases

Keeping Passwords in Source Control

John Resig

2013-02-06

engineering

Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued

Patrick McKenzie

2012-01-23

career

User-defined Order in SQL

Joe Nelson

2018-03-20

engineering
databases

The problems with (Python's) Celery

Alexander Belanger

2024-06-05

engineering

The Grug Brained Developer: A layman's guide to thinking like the self-aware smol brained

Anonymous

engineering

The Wrong Abstraction

Sandi Metz

2016-01-20

engineering

AHA Programming

Kent C. Dodds

2020-06-22

engineering

When to useMemo and useCallback

Kent C. Dodds

2019-06-04

engineering
react

Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases

Sean Goedecke

2024-01-07

engineering

Use Postgres for your events table

Alexander Belanger

2024-11-20

engineering

Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads

Tim

2025-02-01

privacy

I Tasted Honda's Spicy Rodent-Repelling Tape

Liz Cook

2021-07-30

misc

What if we made advertising illegal?

Kōdō Simone

2025-04-05

misc