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I get asked this a fair bit so I started to collect a few of my favourite links together in a blog post: http://www.andykelk.net/leadership/the-big-list-of-management-and-lead… Specifically to new tech lead roles, I'd recommend "Peopleware" and "Behind Closed Doors" And a couple of articles specific to your situation: http://firstround.com/review/this-90-day-plan-turns-engineers-into-rem… and https://blog.stackexchange.com/2015/08/developer-turned-manager/

I feel like this should link to the blog post[0] on building the blog instead. Regardless, I love how multipurpose the Jekyll + GitHub Pages combination is. It's used for tiny project sites all the way up to fully-featured blogs like yours. [0] http://blog.stackexchange.com/2015/07/how-we-built-our-blog/

As I read this, I was thinking, "man, it would be great if StackOverflow could serve as sort of a wiki platform so information like this has a place to live even though it doesn't meet SO's 'question and answer' criteria." Of course, it does [1] (as an aside, read the comments on the answer there, most of them are people bitching that they can't earn rep on community wiki posts). The first link in the answer there points to an old blog post about "The Future Of Community Wiki" [2], which I highly recommend to anyone interested in this controversy as food for thought. I see a lot of parallels between this problem and the problem that Reddit is having right now. It all stems from the question of how much these sites should be considered "communities." To what extent is StackOverflow really a "place"? Do fun, off-topic or poorly-formatted questions really ruin the reputation and mission of StackOverflow if they are but a subset of pages that happen to be hosted side-by-side with other pages that include content that can be found with a search and that many people will find invaluable? [1] http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-… [2] https://blog.stackexchange.com/2011/08/the-future-of-community-wiki/

You haven't broken the podcast RSS feed, thank you. Another large podcast network recently did a redesign and broke all of their feeds, apparently on purpose. Crazy. However, the podcast feed is impossible to find now if you didn't have it before. Previously I think it was on every podcast post as an RSS link. Now the individual tag RSS links all point to the main feed, rather than to a per-tag feed. e.g. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/feed/ still works if you know it, but going to https://blog.stackexchange.com/tags/podcasts/ gives you an RSS link to just "/feed/". This is probably not a good place for bug reports :-S

I'm actually wondering, are their any ways to play with data like this (eg. downloading data from StackExchange http://blog.stackexchange.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/ ) Any other ways? I don't believe there is a VM for this sort of "experimentation"

Yes, but the last I could find is from 2011 http://blog.stackexchange.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/

Start a Stackexchange site with like-minded HN folks? http://blog.stackexchange.com/post/518474918/stack-exchange-2-0 And don't forget good ol' Slashdot. Alot of the old trolls moved on the new hotness social media sites.

No. They successfully raised money for StackExchange. That is part of the reason for the change. Here is the post from the blog explaining the change. http://blog.stackexchange.com/post/518474918/stack-exchange-2-0