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Blog - First one-to-one

A set of questions to ask at a first one-to-one with a new direct report or new colleague. How are you? What do you like to do outside of work? What motivates you the most? What kind of projects are you most excited to - work on? What kind of technology are you m...

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Blog - GOOD one-to-one template

Managers and employees should have a one-to-one conversation on at least a monthly basis. I prefer fortnightly. This optional template provides a guide for managers and employees to provide structure to the conversation. Manager Name: Employee Name: Date of meeting: ...

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Blog - DORA Key Capabilities

Capabilities that drive improvement, according to research in 2017 - leading to the publication of the book Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, PhD, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim. Research, based on four years of the State of DevOps Report, has uncovered 24 key capabilities that driv...

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Linked - Leadership is Language

If you’re a leader, the language you use is probably inherited from the Industrial Age, when people were divided into strict categories: deciders and doers, leaders and followers, decision-makers and decision-executors. Today, the most successful organizations reject t...

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Linked - No Hello - Chat Communication Etiquette Guidelines

2010-07-19 12:32:12 you: Hi 2010-07-19 12:32:15 co-worker: Hello. # CO-WORKER WAITS WHILE YOU PHRASE YOUR QUESTION 2010-07-19 12:34:01 you: I'm working on [something] and I'm trying to do [etc...] 2010-07-19 12:35:21 co-worker: Oh, that's [answer...] It’s as if you call...

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Blog - Seven Coaching Questions

Here are seven questions to ask during each coaching session. Taken from the book “The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever” by Michael Bungay Stanier Coaching should be simple and question-oriented: spend more time listening and les...

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Blog - The GROW Model - Goals, Realities, Options, and Will

GROW is an acronym that stands for Goals, Realities, Options, and Will, and it has several purposes. It helps you and your employees clarify their initial goals, assess what’s currently happening, and identify potential roadblocks. It also helps your people brainstorm both o...

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Blog - PRACTICE coaching Model

Problem identification (P) In the first step of the model, the goal is to clarify the client’s problem. In addition to this problem clarification, this is also the phase during which the coach takes their time to really understand their client. Various questions can help in...

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Linked - Better by next Friday

Yes! “In the digital age, you don’t have to work out precisely what you need to build at the start, and then start building it. You can start with something small and try it out. Test it on people. Fix the problems. Change the design. Test it again. Throw it away and ...

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Linked - Heat Death of the Internet

You want to order from a local restaurant, but you need to download a third-party delivery app, even though you plan to pick it up yourself. The prices and menu on the app are different to what you saw in the window. When you download a second app the prices are different...

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Linked - Measure team health with Petals

In 2022, I created a simple new framework to help engineering teams become more aware of their overall health called PETALS. We identified and simplified to 5 key dimensions that influence team health: Productivity Enjoyment Teamwork Learning Stre...

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Linked - Netflix and Apple TV

Especially for a set of people likely to be in the demographic they are targetting. I’d suggest Apple TV users are generally affluent and engaged in good user experiences.

Now, the correct way to put it: Fucking fuck, fuck, fuck. Do these fucking idiots know how stupid this looks and is? How about you do the right thing for consumers? Too much to ask? Clearly.

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Release - Thechels.uk Version 1.5.0

What’s Changed

  • testing by @mat-0 in #512
  • Bump lycheeverse/lychee-action from 2.2.0 to 2.3.0 by @dependabot in #515

Full Changelog: 1.4.0…1.5.0

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Linked - The Newman List

In my experience it’s very difficult to achieve all of this simultaneously, but a reasonable thing to strive for. This list isn’t meant to be exhaustive, nor is every item listed here applicable all the time. It’s meant to give a basic framework to help managers, parti...

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Linked - How To Create Your Own Luck

Like John, I’d consider myself on the not particularly lucky side of the spectrum. However, my career has been on a steady upwards trajectory. A lot of that growth has been down to a couple of really clear moments. As an engineer or lead engineer I was one of a small nu...

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Blog - Introducing slash green

Big fan of the slash pages “movement” in the IndieWeb seen such that I would like to introduce my own suggestion. /green A page for authors/website owners to share their work towards the environment and decarbonisation. There are a number of free tools that estimate the c...

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Linked - K is for K.I.S.S.

We might think that simpler code will be easier to write, but it turns out that, quite often, simpler is harder. It takes more thought. It takes more discipline. And it requires us both to let go of preconceived ideas about design, and to let go of our egos. A lot of comp...

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Blog - Institutions will be institutions - boys will be boys

Fatalism that no matter how one is educated, how one is nurtured it’s inevitable that certain characteristics or behaviours will exist. The thing with institutions is that they will largely follow the crowd. Their customers are the job creators, the revenue generators, the ...

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Linked - A Well Known URL For Your Personal Avatar

Well-known URLs are pretty neat. I’ve even dared propose one before here on my blog. And now I’m here to propose another: .well-known/avatar The idea is: anybody that owns a domain can put their avatar in a well-known location.

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Linked - Castro adds transcript support

Castro Podcast app

We have full support for the four formats outlined in the podcast-namespace. So any standard JSON, SRT, or VTT file will “just work”. See example file here corresponding to the screenshot above. HTML support is a bit trickier but we’ve got it working well, even for podcasts with somewhat non-standard timestamps.

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Blog - Raycast Adds Hyperkey

Finally, Spotlight replacement and all round productivity app, Raycast has added a hyperkey. Hyperkey is a shortcut and replaces the combination of shift, control, alt and command. i.e., pressing one key over all four modifiers. This great for programming specific key comb...

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Linked - How to Write Good Runbooks

Qualities of a Good Runbook: A single runbook focuses on a single problem: short & sweet. It has the necessary steps to confirm the problem in the form of graphs & dashboard links. It is easy to follow, even for a relatively new person on the team,...

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Blog - Public Statement

Just an a brief announcement to let you all know that I have not owned or leased a diesel car between 2008 and 2020.

I have also not been in an accident that was not my fault.

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Linked - What Makes a Good Team

No team is perfect, but I think it’s often kind of obvious when a team is bad – there’s usually a level of chaos or drama, a sense that they can’t be relied on or don’t really deliver the value that the organization needs. I think it’s also quite obvious when a team is go...

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Linked - Load the default OS font with CSS

Very cool indeed, I have given this site a little stylistic refresh over the last week or so. Reducing the used colour scheme to 5 major colours and one minor accent Updated the font family as per Stefan’s post and removed a script call to Google This should mean bet...

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Linked - Flow Metrics - Agile Development Performance Measurement

Flow metrics offer a smarter way to plan, size, and forecast work for Agile teams. They keep things simple, cut down on overcomplicated estimations, and give you more accurate forecasts. By counting completed Product Backlog Items each Sprint, your team can focus more on ...

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Linked - GOV Forms through the ages

We moved into private beta and started building the product in March 2022. Our aims in this phase were to deliver enough features to drive adoption, and test the platform with a small number of partner departments to validate our designs. Throughout this phase we tested r...

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Linked - New Front-End Features For Designers In 2025

As we are moving towards 2025, it’s a good time to revisit some of the incredible new technologies that are broadly available and supported in modern browsers today. Let’s dive right in and explore how they can simplify your day-to-day work and help you build modern UI components.

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Linked - What does your manager really mean?

I’m at a stage in my career and life more generally, where I would like to help people - it’s that old cliché of giving back to the technology community. I would like to build a community of Software Engineers (as that’s my background but everyone is welcome) who would like...

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Linked - Magic Links and Passkeys

A well-written post by Ricky Mondello highlights their expertise in the password and authentication space. The blog post on 404 media login flow is intriguing. As a strong advocate for password managers, I utilize Passkeys whenever available. However, I find it irritating a...