About a year and a half ago I made the switch from working in "big tech" to the world of startups. I couldn't be happier about that decision refactoring.fm/p/scaling-tea…
After an amazing 3+ years, in Dec I decided it was time to leave GitHub. On this podcast I talk about what I’ve been up to, and what I’ve learned in my career on scaling healthy eng orgs – why things change and what you can do – as you pass the daunting 100 person size!
🎉 New episode of The Changelog 🎉
💭 What it takes to scale engineering
💫 featuring @PotvinRachel
🎤 hosts @adamstac & @jerodsanto
🗂 tagged #leadership @GitHub @google
💚 changelog.fm/527
It was so great to work with @nicolefv again!! ♥️
Hey y’all! We did some analysis of developer activity during COVID-19 on GitHub and are excited to share what we’ve learned. Check out the Octoverse spotlight for more on productivity, work cadence, and collaboration here! bit.ly/gh-covid19
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We’re excited to announce that @npmjs will be joining GitHub. Millions of JavaScript developers rely on npm, and we’re honored to support this community in a new way. Learn more at github.co/38RUgzF
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Thanks to GitHub employee @HamelHusain for assembling covid19dashboards.com, which has up-to-the-hour dashboards on the spread of COVID-19.
Had a lot of fun presenting at #devweek2020. Thanks for a great event!!
Our closing #Keynote of #devweek2020 is at 3:00 PM on the Main Stage. Join Rachel Potvin of @github for " The Interconnected. Developer Community: Now, Then, and Beyond." sched.co/ZRPG #DevWeek2020
Had a blast helping put together this report with my new team at GitHub. It's awesome to see how the community is growing, and increasingly global and interconnected.
What language knocked Java out of the #2 spot? Where is open source growing fastest? How deep do dependencies really go?
All the answers (and more) in this year’s #Octoverse report.
octoverse.github.com/
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A former Google Cloud engineering leader is joining Microsoft-owned GitHub to lead its data group businessinsider.com/github-r…
