Tag: Leadership and career
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How a single Raspberry Pi made my home network faster
Posted on January 2, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The Pi Hole project adds an entire new level of performance and security to our home network. Powered by Docker and a Raspberry PI I can now block all unwanted Ads and Metrics network wide. By Brian Christner.
Tags software-engineering business-and-emerging-tech architecture-and-apis leadership-and-career
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Run Python versions in Docker: How to try the latest Python release
Posted on January 1, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Geir Arne Hjelle put together this guide about how to run different Python versions using Docker, including how you can have the latest alpha running on your computer within minutes.
Tags backend-development devops-and-ci-cd leadership-and-career software-engineering
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Distributed teams are helping startups scale faster
Posted on December 31, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
An article by Alexandre Lazarow about a broader trend -- the growing trend of a distributed workforce model.More startups are using a distributed workforce model earlier in their lifecycle.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech leadership-and-career miscellaneous
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How to conduct UX research if you're an introvert
Posted on December 30, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length short
If your goal is to gather as many insights as possible, you need to open your participant up. And how do you open someone up if you're scared yourself? Here are some things I learned along the way that you might find helpful. By Olga Wojnarowska.
Tags product-and-design how-to data-and-analytics leadership-and-career
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Practicing computer science skills anytime
Posted on December 29, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
As parents, we are constantly getting advice on how to prepare our children for the future. At the same time, the tools they are using to learn, like tablets, computers, and the internet, may be very different than the ones we grew up with. By Katie Hessen, M.S.
Tags leadership-and-career software-engineering how-to data-and-analytics
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UX design 101: Thinking in (user) flows
Posted on December 23, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
This session is part of a learning curriculum that author designed to incrementally skill up and empower a team of Designers and Researchers whose skillset and ways of working had fallen behind the times. By Robert Sens.
Tags product-and-design frontend-and-mobile software-engineering leadership-and-career
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Go plus services and one goliath project
Posted on December 20, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An article by Kevin Dangoor from Khan Engineering about how Khan Academy is embarking on a huge effort to rebuild our server software on a more modern stack in Go.
Tags leadership-and-career architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd backend-development
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Customer and user perception of value and what it means to designers
Posted on December 16, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Financial value is not the only motivating factor for users and consumers to invest in a product. In fact, it is the perception of value both financial and non-financial that drives the decision to adopt (or not) a product. By Wiki4des and www.interaction-design.org.
Tags product-and-design frontend-and-mobile miscellaneous leadership-and-career
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How we 30x'd our Node parallelism
Posted on December 13, 2019, Level interemediate Resource Length long
What's the best way to safely increase parallelism in a production Node service? What if your application is a bank integration service? That's a question author's team needed to answer a couple of months ago. By Evan Limanto.
Tags architecture-and-apis backend-development cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career devops-and-ci-cd
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8 common pen testing mistakes and how to avoid them
Posted on December 10, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length short
Penetration testing is vital, but are you doing it right? Here are some common mistakes and advice on how to avoid them. An article by Michelle Drolet.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure security-and-privacy miscellaneous leadership-and-career
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Fifteen things you need to know before buying a telescope
Posted on December 7, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
Your guide to buying new telescope. Buying a telescope is a big step, especially if you're not sure what all those terms -- f/ratio, magnification, go-to -- mean. So, to eliminate confusion and make sure you understand what you're buying, here's what to check out before you write the check out. Older, but very useful guide by Michael E. Bakich.
Tags leadership-and-career miscellaneous how-to
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Sample REST API in Rust and Go
Posted on December 4, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Julio Manuel Merino Vidal wrote about his experiences about prototyping a bunch of web apps whose ideas had been floating in author's mind for a long time. Author spent quite a bit of time learning about REST APIs and, as part of these exercises, implemented skeletons of REST servers in both Go and Rust.
Tags software-engineering how-to leadership-and-career miscellaneous