How I structure my teams for growth

Having worked in a number of scale-ups in the last 10 years, there are a few principles I have adopted for scaling Tech and Product teams. The first one, is to organize teams to be cross-functional.

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Not all engineering leaders are engineering managers

Great managers make great teams, and organisations are rightfully eager to find engineers with manager potential. But management should not be the default career path for engineers. Many of the "leadership" skills that make for good managers (e.g.

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Monitor Events and Function Calls via Console

Despite having worked on the very complex Firefox for a number of years, I'll always love plain old console.log debugging. Logging can provide an audit trail as events happen and text you can share with others.

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Product Backlog Refinement: 14 First Principles

The Product Backlog refinement is a continuous process to create actionable Product Backlogs, enabling a Scrum Team to run Sprint Plannings at a moment’s notice.

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Resumability, WTF?

Maybe you've heard the term Resumability thrown around recently. Maybe someone gushing over Miško Hevery's new Qwik framework. Maybe you've heard me mention it in our work for the upcoming Marko 6. Maybe you heard it has something to do with hydration. But you aren't even clear what hydration is.

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How to use Forms in React

Sooner or later every React developer has to handle forms. The following tutorial will give you a comprehensive overview about forms in React. You will learn how to manage form state in React, the difference of controlled and uncontrolled forms (state vs reference), how to submit a form (e.g.

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The JavaScript Paradox

I'm not sure if there's ever been a language more loathed, yet so widely used, as JavaScript. I'm not of that camp. I quite like JavaScript. Its quirks, its flaws. How it somehow built upon Scheme yet was destined to be the most pervasive programming language.

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