Essential Xcode Shortcuts for More Efficient Coding

As developers, we spend a considerable amount of time in our IDE, so it’s worth becoming an expert in using it. Simply being able to edit code doesn’t cut it – you need to become proficient. Read more

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What Went Wrong? : Hacker News

Culturally the result is coverups and lies. Engineers lie, managers lie, test people lie, directors lie, senior directors lie, vice president lie, external interesting teams are negotiated into minimizing certain critical failures, and so on. Read more

Time for Next-Gen Codecs to Dethrone JPEG

I can be quite passionate about image codecs. A codec battle is brewing, and Im not the only one to have opinions about that. Obviously, as the chair of the JPEG XL ad hoc group in the JPEG Committee, Im firmly in the camp of the codec Ive been working on for years. Read more

Game developers break silence around salaries

I think more developers need to get better at negotiating. One 10 minute conversation can beat years of 2-4% raises. It’s all about setting expectations and being willing to walk away. People go into it thinking they’re in love with video games and get chewed out of the machine after a few years. Read more

A teenager’s guide to avoiding actual work

When I was first getting into IT I started sending out CVs. Mine was terrible. I had been working in call centres for years at this point and all my “experience” was basically self-taught, so not really experience at all. Read more

Wikimedia Foundation salaries

This table is a compilation of Wikimedia Foundation salaries from the public 990s, for easy comparison over the years. The amounts reported are for calendar year, not fiscal year.[1] Salaries in United States dollars. Read more