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Say no to more process, say yes to trust

Adding policies is easy. Removing them is difficult. Say no to more process. Trust your team instead.
German Velasco
March 1, 2019
- Process
- Playbook
A Glossary for Data Engineering

We’ve been doing more data engineering for clients lately. Every time I say we’re doing that, I have to explain what it is and what we’re doing! A brief glossary to describe data engineering and some common practices and technologies in the data engineering ecosystem.
Joe Ferris
January 29, 2019
- Data
Waiting for File Write Completion on iOS

It’s straight forward to watch a directory for file writes, but how can you be alerted when a file has finished being written?
Adam Sharp and Sid Raval
January 24, 2019
- iOS
- Swift
- TIL
Little Library

A hackathon project to make a virtual bookshelf.
Eric Bailey
January 14, 2019
- Playbook
- Books
- Boston
- Rails
How to Get Better at Pair Programming

Pairing is an essential tool for designers and developers. This is a checklist of what we think you should consider every time you pair.
Ben Furber
January 4, 2019
- Pair Programming
- Mentoring
Problem-Solving Symbiosis

Approaching diversity and inclusion through a novel partnership.
Stephen Lindberg
January 2, 2019
- Diversity
Do you break your Elixir eggs on the big end or the little end?

From big-endian to little-endian through unsigned integers. A tale of two ends, and Elixir shines again.
German Velasco
December 25, 2018
Don't forget the silent step when you squash and merge

GitHub’s squash and merge button is great. But make sure to write a good commit message before you confirm those changes.
German Velasco
December 24, 2018
- Git
- Tools
How HTTP Cookies Work

How do browser cookies even work? Let’s find out together in this story with a lucky ending.
Edward Loveall
December 21, 2018
- Lucky
- Web
- HTTP
Ruby Memoization and Alternatives

As Ruby developers, we tend to memoize too often.
Joël Quenneville
December 5, 2018
- Ruby
- Web
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