Firing People
How can we fix the firing process if we're not even talking about it first? So it’s been a little over a year since GitHub fired me. I initially made a vague tweet about leaving the company, and then a few weeks later I wrote Fired, which made it pretty clear that leaving the company was involuntary. The reaction to that post was pretty interesting. It hit 100,000 page views within the first few d
HOW TO DEPLOY SOFTWARE
Make your team’s deploys as boring as hell and stop stressing about it. Let's talk deployment Whenever you make a change to your codebase, there's always going to be a risk that you're about to break something. No one likes downtime, no one likes cranky users, and no one enjoys angry managers. So the act of deploying new code to production tends to be a pretty stressful process. It doesn't have to
Fired
So I got fired from GitHub two weeks ago. This is the tweet I wrote afterwards while walking to lunch: The last half-decade meant everything to me. Was a hell of a gig. Thanks, GitHub. — Zach Holman (@holman) February 20, 2015 I left it ambiguous because I wasn’t sure what to think about it all at that point. I mean, something I’d been doing for half a decade was suddenly gone. If people knew what
Move Fast and Break Nothing
I gave the closing keynote at the Future of Web Apps in London this October, 2014. This is that talk. The slides and the full video of the talk are directly below. If you're interested in a text accompaniment, read on for the high-level overview. moving fast and breaking things Let's start with the classic Facebook quote, Move fast and break things. Facebook's used that for years: it's a philosoph
A Day of Communication at GitHub
I’ve done a lot of posts and talks about how we work together at GitHub. The high-level discussion about how we manage to operate without managers in a 60% remote, 240-employee company is pretty interesting to me. Just like code, though, sometimes the high-level is too high-level. Just show me the code, dammit. Sure, you work asynchronously, but what does that actually mean? So, here’s a look at m
Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
Please sign my guestbook. Have you ever shoved a <blink> into a <marquee> tag? Pixar gets all the accolades today, but in the 90s this was a serious feat of computer animation. By combining these two tags, you were a trailblazer. A person capable of great innovation. A human being that all other human beings could aspire to. You were a web developer in the 1990s. With that status, you knew you wer
Spark by holman
▁▂▃▅▂▇ in your shell. View the Project on GitHub holman/spark Download ZIP File Download TAR Ball View On GitHub spark sparklines for your shell See? Here's a graph of your productivity gains after using spark: ▁▂▃▅▇ install spark is a shell script, so drop it somewhere and make sure it's added to your $PATH. It's helpful if you have a super-neat collection of dotfiles, like mine. If you're on OS
Don't Give Your Users Shit Work
The problem with shit work is that no one likes doing it, but an awful lot of people say they do. Shit work Take a look at Twitter Lists. The idea behind Twitter Lists was that users would carefully cultivate lists on Twitter of different accounts they’re following (or not following). These could be divided into lists like Family, Friends, Coworkers, People I Find Mildly Attractive, People To Murd
How GitHub (no longer) Works
Too many startups do this thing where they build their reputation with all these great technical blog posts and fascinating public talks, and then they become a Real Company and suddenly decide they’re too cool to be open and transparent. Maybe the lawyers get to them, or maybe all the cool ninja rockstars become managers. In any case, I think that’s stupid. I don’t want GitHub to be one of those
Chat Trumps Meetings
I do a lot of public speaking about our asynchronous workflow at GitHub. Our office is filled with chat rooms, email, and pull requests rather than development meetings and in-person code review. I think people understand why this may be a better way to work, overall. We can avoid distractions, work from anywhere, and recruit globally. But I think it goes further than most realize: chat is a bette
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