Signal Vs Noise

One responsibility of engineers & especially leads is managing many channels of signals : emails, blog posts (internal and external), tags , push notifications, group chats, alerts from dashboards and more.

These signals tend to scale exponentially to the number of projects & people that you are responsible for.

Quickly you’ll need to set up a system to make sure that you are receiving high-signal information and filtering out low-signal noise. How do you do that?

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Being Scientific with Gists : The Sharable Laboratory

Next time you create a post with code snippets–like here on dev.to or stackoverflow–consider sharing a working and buildable gist along with it. By doing so, others can clone, reproduce your results, and commit new variants much more easily.

With the process below, your gist becomes a sharable laboratory. Since the gist contains all of the code variants and test cases, any team member can create a variant and run the tests against all existing variants.

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