Articles from TnL
The battlecry of burnout "experts" is don't be overworked, set boundaries, etc. What a stupid suggestion. Nothing could be further from the truth, and indeed your happiness is at stake if you listen to this naive drivel. While burnout is real, we need to talk about the realities of how it works and the actual options to deal with it.
Bazel is the by far the most complete and popular monorepo build tool we have. It also is utter garbage and needs to be replaced.
I believe a compelling view of the universe is the need for competition and cooperation as the only building blocks upon which we can grow. My quip of, "all growth comes from conflict, but not all conflict leads to growth" is true, and I think Competitive Cooperation is an explanation of why, and how to look for the right kinds of conflict.
There are a lot of different software engineers out there, with different values. One of those values is sometimes "speed" measured only in the initial task work, and expressed in stupid statements like the famous "move fast and break things." The attitude of creating something working and then polishing it later is a problem. It misses the point.
I have incepted a pattern at a few big tech companies that my friends worked at after they did some side stuff with me. It makes your life testing against a database way easier. You'll never look back once you've got it going.