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The Tragedy of the Engineering Commons

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:17:45 +0000

The surest way to ruin an engineering team is to believe it will survive whatever you do to it.

Tags: #career #dev #engineering #work

Raising of Chicago - Wikipedia

Thu, 07 May 2026 19:19:55 +0000

During the 1850s and 1860s, engineers carried out a piecemeal raising of the grade of central Chicago to lift the city out of its low-lying swampy ground. Buildings and sidewalks were raised on jackscrews. The work was funded by both private property owners and public funds.

Tags: #chicago #cities #engineering

Principal Engineer Roles Framework

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 21:21:15 +0000

The framework was pretty helpful for us as a team to optimize (or “force multiply” as we say in the Amazon Principal Tenets) the impact of our super awesome Principal Engineer community. We used the role framework to assess Principal Engineer engagement for our most important projects across Amazon S3/Glacier. In some cases, we changed the role of the Principal Engineer.

Tags: #amazon #career #engineering #principalengineer

Egoless Engineering

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 02:47:55 +0000

It shouldn’t be a radical act because results are better if we can cooperate. And life is better without cult leaders. How do we tear down parochialism and ego?

Tags: #dev #devops #ego #engineering #work

The buttons on Zenith’s original ‘clicker’ TV remote were a mechanical marvel - The Verge

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 03:24:25 +0000

The Zenith Space Command, one of the first wireless television remotes ever to exist, is a monument to a time before we took the remote for granted. It also just so happened to contain one of the most influential and intriguing buttons in history.

Tags: #engineering #hardware #imported:pinboard #technology #tv #zenith

My 20 Year Career is Technical Debt or Deprecated

Tue, 16 May 2023 19:50:48 +0000

My entire career is now technical debt, or the code has been deprecated.

Tags: #career #engineering #future #imported:pinboard #programming

What's a senior engineer's job? - Julia Evans

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 02:52:09 +0000

most (all?) of the senior engineers I know take on a significant amount of helping-other-people work in addition to their individual programming work. The challenge I see me/my coworkers struggling with today isn’t so much “what?? I have to TALK TO PEOPLE?? UNBELIEVABLE.” and more “wait, how do I balance all of this leadership work with my individual contributions / programming work in a way that’s sustainable for me? How much of what kind of work should I be doing?“

Tags: #career #development #engineering #imported:pinboard #senior #work

What's a senior engineer's job? - Julia Evans

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 02:52:09 +0000

Tags: #career #development #engineering #senior #work

Building my Own Laptop « bunnie's blog

Sun, 05 May 2013 17:30:13 +0000

We are building an open laptop, with some wacky features in it for hackers like me.

Tags: #bunnie #diy #engineering #hardware #imported:pinboard #laptops #novena #opensource

Building my Own Laptop « bunnie's blog

Sun, 05 May 2013 17:30:13 +0000

We are building an open laptop, with some wacky features in it for hackers like me.

Tags: #bunnie #diy #engineering #hardware #laptops #novena #opensource

Pragmatic Dictator » Remodelling

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:28:46 +0000

Tags: #design #engineering #rewrites #softwareengineering #webdev

A Revolution in DIY Engineering - How to Build With Grid Beam - The Citizen Scientist

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:25:11 +0000

Tags: #engineering #erectorset #prototyping #toys

World of Warcraft 1-300 / 375 Engineering Guide

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:42:31 +0000

"it's just a guide that will help you get your engineering up quick"

Tags: #engineering #gaming #wow

Thottbot World of Warcraft: Steam Tonk Controller

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:54:42 +0000

I think Schpooki needs to learn engineering :)

Tags: #engineering #for:joshua #for:osunick #for:snipersock #for:stlhood #gaming #wow

Don't let these disasters happen to you: The top five engineering hints you'll rarely hear

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 19:20:42 +0000

"Lewin Edwards presents five engineering tips that are crucially important to successful product engineering, but which are rarely brought up in discussions of engineering practices."

Tags: #engineering #programming