Nick AngPlease stop saying feedback is a giftStop pretending that you like everything about feedback. A gift is something that is meant to be liked. Feedback is not.Apr 19, 2022Apr 19, 2022
Nick Anginre-engineeringBe the person everybody wants to teachI’ve consciously taken a new approach to learning to do my job, and it’s by doing one simple thing very deliberately: to always teach what…Apr 10, 2022Apr 10, 2022
Nick Anginre-engineeringThoughts on ObservabilityI haven’t thought deeply about observability as a concept until recently.Mar 16, 20223Mar 16, 20223
Nick Anginre-engineeringConscious of debugging approachesWhen I’m stuck, I like to fall back to old ways and just do things that I remember worked for me, even when the situation then and now are…Mar 15, 2022Mar 15, 2022
Nick AngDon’t reply when you’re not readyEveryone on your team works remotely. Someone just asked you a question in a Slack DM and you’re in the middle of something. What do you…Mar 14, 2022Mar 14, 2022
Nick AngDon’t use Rails console sandbox in productionYou can use rails console to gain full access to models and controllers and helpers provided by Rails in an interactive ruby (irb) session.Mar 10, 2022Mar 10, 2022
Nick Anginre-engineeringYou are not self madeThere is no such thing as a self-taught or self-made programmer, because…Mar 3, 20221Mar 3, 20221
Nick Anginre-engineeringDon’t ship code in your first 30–60 daysI’ve experienced some internal tension (in my head) in my third and fourth week at my new job at Shopify. It’s the tension that arises from…Mar 1, 20222Mar 1, 20222
Nick Anginre-engineeringNot paid to read youWhen in school we can write whatever we want and we will still be guaranteed and audience of at least one person, because our teachers are…Feb 28, 20221Feb 28, 20221
Nick Anginre-engineeringidempotencyIdempotent is a word used to describe a system component that has the characteristic of “having the same outcome regardless of repeated…Feb 23, 2022Feb 23, 2022
