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• Getting Started with DevOps
  by johndavidbackon 2/22/2021, 6:32:47 PM with 0 comments
• You don't have a solution, you have an idea
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• Thoughts on Good Work Culture
  by johndavidbackon 7/10/2019, 11:50:43 PM with 0 comments
• If technology isn't the problem, it isn't the solution
  by johndavidbackon 7/5/2019, 6:59:30 PM with 0 comments
• How to Email Your Boss
  by johndavidbackon 4/30/2019, 5:16:53 PM with 0 comments
• Transparency Isn't a Gradient
  by johndavidbackon 4/23/2019, 2:06:57 PM with 0 comments
• Treat internal projects like startups
  by johndavidbackon 4/2/2019, 1:58:47 AM with 0 comments
• Why Headless?
  by johndavidbackon 3/28/2019, 3:41:21 PM with 1 comment
• Management as Anarchism: It works
  by johndavidbackon 10/16/2018, 12:49:22 AM with 0 comments
• Continuous Curiosity
  by johndavidbackon 1/17/2018, 8:26:10 PM with 0 comments
• Cortana is really bad
  by johndavidbackon 11/22/2017, 5:33:49 PM with 40 comments
• Pre-screening developer candidates
  by johndavidbackon 11/21/2017, 4:24:37 PM with 1 comment
• Stop, just do it.
  by johndavidbackon 10/9/2017, 11:40:13 AM with 1 comment
• Managers: Don't translate your stress
  by johndavidbackon 8/31/2017, 5:55:45 PM with 5 comments
• When your (startup) co-engineer is gone for 6 weeks
  by johndavidbackon 10/20/2016, 11:28:09 AM with 0 comments
• How to win your Facebook arguments (you can't)
  by johndavidbackon 10/18/2016, 1:08:20 AM with 0 comments
• We don't talk about anything anymore
  by johndavidbackon 7/28/2016, 2:16:03 PM with 0 comments
• Do any startups have dress codes?
  by johndavidbackon 7/27/2016, 6:11:56 PM with 1 comment
• Two boys and a dog
  by johndavidbackon 3/27/2016, 12:25:23 AM with 0 comments
• If creating was easy, everyone would be doing it
  by johndavidbackon 3/23/2016, 10:43:01 PM with 0 comments
• Your startup is not a secret, and no one cares
  by johndavidbackon 3/9/2016, 5:48:45 PM with 0 comments
• Stop dramatizing failure – it's your friend
  by johndavidbackon 2/5/2016, 5:56:38 PM with 0 comments
• The fears of the aging technologist
  by johndavidbackon 2/2/2016, 6:46:11 PM with 0 comments
• Politics sucks and you should never talk about it
  by johndavidbackon 1/29/2016, 7:22:49 PM with 1 comment
• Two things that embarrassed me as a man
  by johndavidbackon 1/27/2016, 1:21:54 PM with 0 comments
• TaskTaco – get only important things done?
  by johndavidbackon 1/12/2016, 2:21:06 PM with 0 comments
• Being a good boss
  by johndavidbackon 9/30/2015, 3:28:59 PM with 0 comments
• Ask HN: How do your Post-mortems work?
  by johndavidbackon 9/28/2015, 3:22:53 PM with 0 comments
• Hell yeah diversity
  by johndavidbackon 9/24/2015, 11:33:27 PM with 0 comments
• The Art of the Pre Mortem
  by johndavidbackon 9/14/2015, 3:22:46 PM with 0 comments
• Making a web app in one hour is easy and awesome
  by johndavidbackon 3/20/2015, 2:56:26 PM with 5 comments
• Presto: An excellent way to quickly poll teams
  by johndavidbackon 10/3/2014, 12:22:51 PM with 1 comment