Dev Library

A collection of articles and other resources related to design patterns, computer science, web development, and working on an engineering team.

Table of Contents

• Career Advice
• CLI
• Compensation
• Corporate
• CSS
• Deployments
• Design
• Design Patterns
• Dev Ops
• Django
• Employment
• Error Handling
• Git / GitHub
• Historical
• Hiring
• IDE
• Javascript
• Language
• Management
• Meetings
• Misc
• Non-Technical Skills
• Personal Development
• Platform Engineering
• Python
• Tooling
• VM
• Visuals
• Work Environment

Career Advice

• Chart Engineering Path

CLI

• tmux
• iTerm
• Mosh
• eDEX-UI

Compensation

• CA AB-168
• Salary Transparency

Corporate

• Corporate

CSS

• Defensive CSS

Deployments

• Shipping to Production

Design

• The Five UX Elements for Design

Design Patterns

• 📼 The Factory Pattern by Arjan Egges

Dev Ops

• 📜 Devops Engineer Crash Course by Mat Duggan
• Docker Compose Best Practices for Dev and Prod

Django

• Django Service Objects

Employment

• On Being a Principal Engineer

Error Handling

• What's in a Good Error Message

Git/Github

• Creating Personal Access Tokens
• tig

Historical

• The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet's Time

Hiring

• How to Interview Product Managers
• Interview Developers By Having Them Read Code

IDE

Vim

NERDTree

• Move between open windows w/ ctrl-ww

Javascript

• Async Javascript

Language

• Gender Decoder

Management

• Principles of Engineering Management
• Reduce Friction
• Staff Eng Stories
• What You Give Up When Moving into Engineering Management
• Company, Team, Self

Meetings

• Brain Research on Back-to-Back Meetings

Misc

• Guiding Principles of Programming
• Jargon: Yak Shaving
• Screenshot Tips and Tricks

Non-Technical Skills

• Technical Decision Making
• Unlearning Perfectionism by Arnun Prasad

Personal Development

• There's No Speed Limit

Platform Engineering

• Platform Engineering KPIs

Python

• Library to convert ISO-8601 to Python Datetime Objects
• django-service-objects Library
• Advanced Python: Achieving High Performance with Code Generation

Tooling

• Cool Desktops Don't Change
• Optimizing Memory Usage in Python Applications

VM

• scp command

Visuals

• Colors for Data Vis Style Guides
• Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in computer science?

Work Environment

• Changing an Unhealthy Work Environment