I'm thinking about how to effectively onboard new people into an organization, any good text about that subject? Personally I haven't experienced it myself, since I'm working at the same place as before the pandemic.
Remote for many years. Gitlab has some good materials for remote, async organization. Some suggestions:
* formal onboarding guide checked in with the code. New people should be fixing errors and pushing patches to it as they go. The guide should cover all the logins and services, dev process, how to build and run the product, etc.
* frequent 1:1 from boss and tech leads the first month
* online social event to meet the team, bs, maybe play a game
* automation in ci to build and test product for anyone to hit the button
* maintain curated culture for faqs, problems, shared scripty bits. wiki, private SO, shared repos, etc
* maintain SOP documents for common operations like making a release
Amongst other good answers, what's working well for my team in our new all-remote all-the-time era is deliberately assigning a different buddy from the team each day to the new starter, and making it clear that on this day it is a big part of the buddy's job to ensure that the new starter can achieve everything they should for that day on the day-by-day new starter checklist.
There is a timecode assigned for this, so the buddy isn't making time around other things; that day, this is a main part of their job.
On the first day, the principal task is a full clone and build of the principal software the new starter is working on. The second day is going through a full process of ticket assignment, working it, completing it (ticket carefully selected to be possible in a day and to exercise full process, so buddy has to introduce them to testers etc). And so on. Each day, a new face, a new buddy, and pretty soon they've met everyone on the team and had useful interaction completing real tasks.
It's nice to hear that they are not falling behind. I switched to Firefox after Opera started to decline. I rely heavily on multi-account containers, but it is a pity that they can't run their own engine on iOS.
I have nothing against the dev tools in Firefox, but it is way easier to google issues for chrome dev tools.
They'll probably try. Either him or someone else migrates most of it every time that site changes, but it's already suffering from quite a bit of link rot.
The UX is efficient to get started. I would also like to have something similar for office ergonomics, like stretching your back or neck when taking a break from the 'puter.
The pandemic really got the activity going during 2020 (first bar chart), but maybe not so surprising with everyone pivoting to remote work. And obviously all discssusions about vaccines and how different government were handling things.
