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Remote work requires communicating more, less frequently, because async communication involves less frequent, but richer communication. There is less talking about the work and more doing it, allowing the system to optimize for throughput and flow. https://t.co/R3J5pCjUho
Exactly 10 years ago today, I 🚢'd my first GitHub feature, GeoJSON rendering. The base layer has since moved from MapBox to Azure Maps, but the feature is still rendering more than 7 million maps a year across more than 27 million .geojson files. https://t.co/1NiPrgsW0o
Practice inclusive scheduling. When working as a distributed team, be mindful of cultural differences, time zones, encouraging breaks between meetings, and connecting as humans. https://ben.balter.com/2023/05/19/practice-inclusive-scheduling/
Pull requests are a form of documentation. When authoring a PR, use the body as an opportunity to document the proposed change, especially the “why”, and cross link any related issues or other PRs to create a trail of breadcrumbs for future contributors. https://t.co/RrmuMZgR3A
I made a few updates to my "Intro to GitHub for non-technical roles" article. Glad it has been helpful. Please keep the questions and feedback coming. https://ben.balter.com/2023/03/02/github-for-non-technical-roles/
GitHub isn’t just for software developers. If you work with or alongside software development teams, this brief guide includes everything that you need to know to get started confidently with GitHub. https://ben.balter.com/2023/03/02/github-for-non-technical-roles/
If issues, pull requests, and project boards are the best way to develop software, should they not also be the best way to manage software development? Make work visible. Write things down. Embrace collaboration. Manage like an engineer. https://ben.balter.com/2023/01/10/manage-like-an-engineer/
Is there a good solution for ad/tracker blocking on mobile (for browser AND apps)? I use AdGuard at home (https://t.co/U04oSSZFjM), but I have different reasons for not trusting the two popular DNS filtering services, and running a wireguard split VPN eats 30%+ battery on iOS. 🤷♂️
If you maintain a Jekyll site, I wrote up a brief tutorial on how to use the Jekyll Sitemap plugin and a few lines of JavaScript to automatically have your 404 – not found page suggest similar (valid) URLs to the one requested. https://t.co/N69c57cRyT
At GitHub, we use GitHub to manage access to GitHub. Need access to that new service? Submit a pull request and your manager will review. Better yet, access can be driven by the org chart automatically. So excited to see Entitlements shared with the world. https://t.co/UMS1o5wJEP
Why should your team work asynchronously? Async is the key to remote work. Inclusivity, better outcomes faster, opt-in shared context, space for learning, solving higher value problems, work-life balance, team distribution, and parallelization and flow. https://ben.balter.com/2022/03/17/why-async/
