Practical examples of questions Marco asks in his 1:1s, along with how often each type of question gets asked.
January 2020Template for scheduling time within a 1:1
December 2019Fairly barebones but good intro to containers/Docker. Aimed mostly at developers with some experience of production/shipping. Gives a decent background if short on why containers are needed, what the underlying technology is and the actual Docker interface
December 2019Best explainer I've read on DNS CNAME records. See also the article on DNS itself and on A records.
November 2019New SaaS startup that offers a11y reviews of your product
August 2019Really excellent explainer on SVG coordinate systems. Alternatively titled "what on earth does the viewBox attribute on <svg> do?". Includes a super helpful interactive demo
July 2019tldr: "What Are Your Optimising For?". Builds on the Observation -> Impact -> Question/Request framework for giving feedback, focusing specifically on how to ask a good open ended question. One that doesn't shut down further discussion/feedback
June 2019Excellent and very thorough explanation of useEffect, how to use it and the design decisions behind it.
June 2019Modification of SBI tool and I think I prefer it. Frames the problem and how to deal with it better. From other post: > The feedback equation can also help you shift the focus from why you or others think it’s important for your teammate to change their behavior, to why the feedback recipient might care about changing their behavior.
June 2019Useful tools for setting expectations about yourself and your team. Interestingly is against manager READMEs.
June 2019Lots of useful advice on ensuring that diversity within the company is maintained fairly
June 2019Some good ideas around how to handle auth state with context
June 2019Intro to an ARIA attribute I didn't know much about. Used to mark the "current" thing in a list (in certain circumstances)
June 2019Quick tip for failing a test when React prop types are invalid by monkey-patching console.error
June 2019Code snippets of the various different ways of marking up buttons with an icon (and no text)
May 2019Description of a nasty JS security bug. The key mitigation is to avoid custom Object deep clone implementations (and use a safe alternative like lodash)
May 2019