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Notes to me in 1993
Plus: It’s easy to miss productivity opportunities outside of engineering; and, the disturbing inevitability that a platform we come to love must…
Rebecca Murphey
Jan 25
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Notes: Week of 20 January 2023
LEGO, layoffs, and what's next for me.
Rebecca Murphey
Jan 19
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The 14 days of jQuery
A story of industry transformation and the commodification of innovation.
Rebecca Murphey
Jan 18
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Lessons from a hammer
Invention is insufficient.
Rebecca Murphey
Jan 16
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Notes: Week of 13 January 2023
A recap of interesting things from the week.
Rebecca Murphey
Jan 13
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Productivity: It’s a product, it’s a program
Yes, good eng managers can learn on the job and wear many hats, but embedding product and program know-how early can save a lot of pain.
Rebecca Murphey
Jan 10
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Slack time, 100% utilization, and the Southwest meltdown
What happens when a system that’s running “hot” runs into adversity?
Rebecca Murphey
Jan 2
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December 2022
Measuring developer productivity
This will undoubtedly be the first of many times I talk about measurement, but let’s get this out of the way: the “productivity” we’re going to talk…
Rebecca Murphey
Dec 29, 2022
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On developer productivity & other things
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Rebecca Murphey
Dec 28, 2022
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December 2021
Eng ladders, promotions & glue work
(Many disclaimers belong here, including, but not limited to: this probably applies differently or not at all in organizations without formal ladders…
Rebecca Murphey
Dec 23, 2021
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January 2021
Writing effectively in software engineering organizations
My job as an engineering manager requires a lot of reading. Every day, my browser gains a few more tabs as I open internal documents that people share…
Rebecca Murphey
Jan 23, 2021
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November 2020
On micro-frontends
My time at Indeed focused on improving front-end development practices and tooling across product teams. It was a journey from stabilization to…
Rebecca Murphey
Nov 19, 2020
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