Welcome to the 36th edition of Coffee Bytes, a newsletter by Better Programming. To kick things off in this byte-size issue, we’ll be focusing on “Web3”, a word that we all have been hearing for quite ...

I hope y’all are doing well. Last week we covered the job interview experiences of some of our contributors. I hope it helps your next job interview process go a lot more smoothly. Even so, it takes ...

We’re halfway through the quarter. The product manager and I are sitting in a small, airless meeting room. Vision, planning, and strategy are swirling all around us. Constraints are a fact of life.

Formula Debugger began its journey as a straightforward tool for testing and debugging formula fields in Salesforce. However, my vision was to infuse it with the cutting-edge capabilities of OpenAI’s ...

The majority of managers (and some employees) dream is to have a well-established software factory. A long (virtual) conveyor, where customer's needs come in, these requirements disassembled, analyzed ...

Doug Gaff is Zapier’s vice president of engineering. This isn’t his first time leading a remote team. Prior to Zapier, he worked at FirstMark-backed InVision as vice president of product engineering.

I’ve been building Alexa skills for the past few years, with over a dozen published skills in the Amazon Alexa store. I’m a lifelong learner and first got involved with Alexa three years ago. It was a ...

Photo by Marc Sendra Martorell on Unsplash. If you have read some of my previous Python articles, you know I’m a Flask fan. It is my go-to for building APIs in Python. However, recently I started to ...

When You Can Use It Right now, Codespaces is in a limited beta, meaning only a small group of users have access. It took almost four months for me to make my way through the waitlist. Pricing has not ...

Photo by Mike Tinnion on Unsplash. Logging is a crucial part of developing an application. When the app is in production, logs are necessary to identify the problem if something goes wrong. So if you ...

Software development is a constant learning experience, but there are certain habits and tips that I wished I internalized earlier. Hopefully, these will be of help to any software developer who’s ...

A discussion of non-technical skills for a career in software development. It covers communication, effective documentation, learning, and asking for help ...