technical-hub

Consolidated articles on programming and technical management

• Peopleware
  • Tech Leadership/Management Frameworks
    • Engineering Management
    • Awesome CTO Resources
    • Awesome CTO
    • How Are You Protecting Your High Performers from Burnout?
    • What Does It Mean to Be an Effective Tech Lead?
    • Becoming an accidental architect
    • Techie to tech lead: My five biggest mistakes
    • Making The Transition from Software Engineer To Manager
    • What I learned transitioning from being a programmer to an IT manager
    • Engineering Management: The Pendulum or the ladder
    • 12 “Manager READMEs” from Silicon Valley’s Top Tech Companies
    • Youtube LEADx: The Making of a Manager | Facebook VP Julie Zhuo
    • Youtube InVision: Julie Zhuo: Learning to manage like a leader
    • As Your Team Gets Bigger, Your Leadership Style Has to Adapt
  • Articles
    • How Netflix Reinvented HR
    • How do CEOs justify their high salaries when some employees struggle to put food on the table?
• Programming
  • Fundamentals
    • Basics
      • Learn your coding fundamentals: the main differences between sets and arrays
    • Object Oriented Programming
      • How to explain object-oriented programming concepts to a 6-year-old
    • Javascript
      • Learn these JavaScript fundamentals and become a better developer
    • Design
      • Before you can master design, you must first master the fundamentals
      • How to get better at writing CSS
      • How Tencent designed their remittance product for Filipino domestic helpers in Hong Kong
    • Performance
      • ASP.NET Performance Monitoring: A Developer’s How to Guide
  • Frameworks/Tracks
    • iOS Developer Skills Matrix
    • The Progression
    • Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2018
    • 2018 Full Stack Developer Road Map: Part 2 – Back End Development
    • Google Developers Training
  • Public Design Systems
    • Google Design
    • Apple
    • Microsoft
    • Atlassian
    • IBM Design
    • Helpscout
    • Shopify
  • Jokes/Etc
    • Epigrams in Programming
  • Technical Debt
    • There are 3 main types of technical debt. Here’s how to manage them.
  • Rockstars/Habits
    • Software Engineering is different from Programming
    • How Software Groups Rot: Legacy of the Expert Beginner
    • Implementers, Solvers, and Finders
    • The Three Types of Programmers
    • Why do large tech companies reward software engineers for leadership rather than technical skill, beyond the Senior Engineer level? Wouldn’t it be best to encourage engineers to focus on developing their technical skills instead of soft skills?
    • Professional Programmer is Professional
    • How not to be a mediocre developer!
    • Commodity Programmers
  • Style Guides/Coding Conventions/Guidelines
    • 5 JavaScript Style Guides — Including AirBnB, GitHub, & Google
    • The Official raywenderlich.com C# Style Guide
    • C# Coding Conventions (C# Programming Guide)
    • Style guides for Google-originated open-source projects
    • Google JavaScript Style Guide
    • Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide
    • Secure coding guidelines
  • Architecture/Design Patterns
    • SOLID architecture principles using simple C# examples
    • SOLID Principle with C# Example
    • .NET Design Patterns and Architectural Guidance
    • Awesome design patterns
  • UI/UX
    • Understand the 12 principles of animation
    • 16 top CSS animation examples
    • I wanted to see how far I could push myself creatively. So I redesigned Instagram.
  • Object Relational Mappers (ORM)
    • Conceptual Compression
  • Debugging
    • Debugging JavaScript in Google Chrome and Visual Studio Code
  • Docs
    • The C4 model for software architecture - Context, Containers, Components and Code
    • How to write a good software design doc
  • Agile/Scrum/Kanban
    • Split User Stories/Vertical Slicing
      • http://www.deltamatrix.com/horizontal-and-vertical-user-stories-slicing-the-cake/
      • Vertically Slicing: Taking A Bite Of The Hamburger
      • Video: Youtube Splitting User Stories - Agile Practices
    • Video: Youtube Google Ventures - Sprint
    • 10 Kanban Board Examples
    • How we structure our work and teams at Basecamp
  • Implementation Strategies
    • How Grab built a platform to conduct experiments more effectively
    • How to Do A/B Testing: A Checklist You'll Want to Bookmark
    • How Obama Raised $60 Million by Running a Simple Experiment
  • Cheat Sheets
    • I created a cheat sheet for dotnet cli and I hope you enjoy it, too. http://en.otomatikmuhendis.com/
• Inspirations
  • Portfolios
    • 15 Web Developer Portfolios to Inspire You
  • Perspective
    • Beliefs
    • Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself
    • Youtube TechLead: Why I left my job at Google (as a software engineer)
    • Thinking of quitting your job? Here’s why you shouldn’t
    • Lessons learned from my journey as a self-taught developer
    • What learning to code actually taught me
  • Morale Boosters
    • Why is it so hard to find full-stack developers?
    • Video: Youtube TechLead: Passive Income: How I make $40,000/year doing nothing (software engineer edition)
    • Video: Youtube TechLead: How I taught myself to code again (and got a job at Google)
  • Team
    • 10 Traits to Make You an Awesome Colleague
  • Levels
    • Levels.fyi - Compare career levels across companies
  • Quotes
    • Technical quotes
  • Startups
    • Startups
• Tech Articles
  • Analytics
    • This is how Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook targeting model really worked — according to the person who built it
    • So you’ve signed up for another online course — how do you make the most of it?
    • How Slow App Performance Can Impact Your Bottom Line