Flow Another day, another five new flow control libraries. If only callbacks were a business model, Node.js would be able to pay off the national debt.

Low risk Four Principles of Low-Risk Software Releases. Unless you’re a Big Release Junkie, you’ll enjoy reading this:

• Low-risk releases are incremental.
• Decouple deployment and release.
• Focus on reducing batch size.
• Optimize for resilience.

Respect Great advise for using pair programming as a job interview tool. TL;DR treat job candidates with respect.

Be present for the work. Don’t just send the candidate off and tell them to submit a solution, the discussion is what’s important. Otherwise, it turns into a measure of how well someone can read a specification.

Screened And speaking of pair programming, a screencast introduction to Tmux. I recently started using tmux, already hooked.

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