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Why Your Engineering Wiki is a Graveyard (And How to Fix It)
You know the feeling. You open a file, stare at a block of spaghetti code, and wonder: “Why on earth did we build it this way?” You check the wiki. The last upd...
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Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph
I built Nogic, a VSCode extension currently, because AI tools make code grow faster than developers can build a mental model by jumping between files. Exploring...
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Early-Career Software Development: A Production-Oriented View
Software development looks different once you are working inside systems that already exist, already serve users, and already carry risk. Early‑career developer...
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KDE onboarding is good now
Article URL: https://rabbitictranslator.com/kde-onboarding/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483432 Points: 8 Comments: 0...
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Onboarding First-Screen Trends: Emotional Hooks Are Back (Because They Never Left)
For five years, we optimized onboarding for one thing: speed. Skip animations, minimize copy, get users to the product fast. The logic seemed airtight—less fric...
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Your Onboarding Is Losing 40% of Users — Here’s a Practical Fix That Actually Works
If you look at onboarding analytics for most apps, there’s a familiar pattern: Users sign up → start onboarding → disappear. Not because the app is broken, but...
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When Integration Work Becomes Dental Organizational Drag
markdown I didn’t notice it when the integration first shipped. There was no outage. No post‑mortem. No dramatic failure. What changed was the conversation. Our...
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How to Ramp Up Fast on a New Team and a New System
markdown Joining a New Team Usually Means One Thing: You Need to Understand an Unfamiliar System—Fast I’m a software engineer with 15 years of experience across...
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Avoiding knowledge silos in growing engineering teams
The Hidden Risks of Scaling an Engineering Team When an engineering team expands from 5 to 15 members, the informal communication patterns that once worked fla...
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Complete Onboarding Breakdown: 9 Steps from First Screen to Paywall
Most subscription apps don’t lose users because of “bad pricing.” They lose them before the user ever sees the paywall. Onboarding is the invisible bridge betwe...
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The Mystery of a Missing Greeting
Source Code and Setup The source code for this exercise is available at . You can clone the repo and follow its README’s setup steps to run this sequence on yo...
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When Software Learns to Speak
People don’t fall in love with technology. If you ever sit in on a user onboarding session – really sit, not just glance at the slide deck afterward – you’ll no...