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Compassionate Coding
Company blog · compassionatecoding.com/blogcareerprogramming
Compassionate Coding is the company blog at compassionatecoding.com, writing about career and programming. Since 2018, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Compassionate Coding – Improving Software Development with Empathy”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Compassionate Coding trains your software engineering team and leaders in essential emotional intelligence skills like empathy, compassion, and leadership with a technical focus.
Most-linked posts?
- Compassionate Coding – Improving Software Development with Empathy3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-03-29
What Hacker News says?
I saw a talk with April Wensel many years ago that made me reevaluate the "soft" skills and how getting better at those produce better code _and_ more personal happiness. I think opening up is a good thing but it's also hard scary work sometimes. It's much easier to be cynical and detached. That lets you blame others for yourself feeling miserable (eg. many disillusioned commenters in this thread) https://compassion…
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on “1-on-1 meeting questions”Submitted Tech Has a Toxic Tone Problem – Let’s Fix It (2016) as a story · 10 points
HN discussionAbsolutely! This reminds me of https://compassionatecoding.com/ - there's a lot to be said about this industry and the "cold" work environments that are associated to it. I support the compassionate coding movement. Software engineers should support and help each other improve as a whole. It creates a much better work culture and more effective team communication.
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on “Linus Torvalds: 'I'll never be cuddly but I can be more polite'”Submitted It's Time to Retire “RTFM” as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou should hire https://compassionatecoding.com/ . Basically, there shouldn't be conflict . There should be polite disagreement, with people listening to each other, understanding where the other side is coming from, and coming to a consensus or coming up with way to decide. If you don't have that the issue isn't lack of a system, it's a people problem about how people interact. (I write about it from individual's p…
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on “Ask HN: Conflict resolution between engineers – how?”Submitted Tech has a toxic tone problem (2016) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Compassionate Coding – Improving Software Development with Empathy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Compassion Is Not About Being 'Nice' as a story · 1 points
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