The internet has a lot advice on how to be a “10x engineer” meaning, how to be the most efficient (ten times more efficient!) and effective (ten times more effective!) developer (in the world!). In reality, it seems to me, that the bar for being an effective engineer is actually set quite low. I don’t […]
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Do You Know How To Debug?
Yesterday, I came across a fabulous talk by Bryan Cantrill at GOTO 2017 with the topic of “Debugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when systems have Lost their Mind”. It’s a very interesting and entertaining talk, so I highly recommend to watch it in full. I never really heard this simple definition of debugging: Debugging […]
How To Report Bugs Effectively
As software engineer, you will write and receive many bug reports over the years. When bugs are reported with low quality, everyone loses, as the reporter will be asked “annoying” questions, the software engineer has to spend extra time to find out all the details, and overall the eventual fix will be delayed. Here are […]