Nick Ang·Apr 19, 2022Please 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.
Inre-engineeringbyNick Ang·Apr 10, 2022Be 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…
Inre-engineeringbyNick Ang·Mar 16, 2022Thoughts on ObservabilityI haven’t thought deeply about observability as a concept until recently.A response icon3A response icon3
Inre-engineeringbyNick Ang·Mar 15, 2022Conscious 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…
Nick Ang·Mar 14, 2022Don’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…
Nick Ang·Mar 10, 2022Don’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.
Inre-engineeringbyNick Ang·Mar 3, 2022You are not self madeThere is no such thing as a self-taught or self-made programmer, because…
Inre-engineeringbyNick Ang·Mar 1, 2022Don’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…A response icon2A response icon2
Inre-engineeringbyNick Ang·Feb 28, 2022Not 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…A response icon1A response icon1
Inre-engineeringbyNick Ang·Feb 23, 2022idempotencyIdempotent is a word used to describe a system component that has the characteristic of “having the same outcome regardless of repeated…
