Community
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Not everything’s about technology, and why that matters
Community is about connecting with people who care about the same things you do. -
Frictionless developer environments
Reducing friction and pain points for new contributors can reduce your time-to-first-commit. -
Social tech debt doesn’t mean what you think it means
Ed Frank provides an analysis of the blog Society’s Tech Debt & Software’s Gutenberg Moment and comes to very different conclusions -
Meet the Double Agents at RailsConf 2023
Test Double has 5 Double Agents giving talks at RailsConf, plus Office Hours for pair programming, and the chance to meet 22 Double Agents. -
How my experience as an engineer made me a better recruiter
How similar are engineers and recruiters? Turns out a lot. A developer turned recruiter adapted from writing code to recruit those who write code. -
Which D&D character class makes the best software consultant?
A D&D fan explores character class potential as software consultants, and ultimately chooses a class with optimal skills in communication and adaptability. -
Why maintaining broad impact communities is so valuable
What do we lose when formerly broad impact communities drop programming and become super insular? -
The Best Kind of Brilliant
The Ruby community has lost a true luminary this week with the passing of Chris Seaton, staff researcher at Shopify and creator of the impressive and envelope-pushing TruffleRuby implementation. Chris and I probably met two dozen times without having a real conversation, but my friend Aaron Patterson worked with him: -
Double Up with Test Double at ElixirConf 2022
Headed to ElixirConf? Test Double is sponsoring an in-person pairing activity and a virtual Ask Us Anything panel session.
