Some longer reads and podcasts focusing on management, the current thing and random fun. I like stories about people managing their mental health with what is going on. We are all kind of in the same boat. Engineering Management Cycle time: a secret weapon of efficient software teams - It is a great metric and leads to overall improvements in processes. Even if you don’t bring it down to where you would like it to be, the way there is helping in many other areas ...
Short one today, just a random collection of gems. I am very slow catching up with my podcast back-log. Technology Ruby 3.0 brings new type checking and concurrency features [LWN] - some good new stuff, but I don’t like of having type definitions in separate files. That was already annoying in C and C++. The concurrency features probably also need some work. ...
Another week of holiday and another missed Friday brings you the double amount of links for your weekend reading pleasure. A bit of everything today, the random links got a bit out of hand. Engineering Management TMB 40/53: 10 Tips for Sustainable Change Agency [LWN] - some good tips on encouraging change without stepping on other peoples toes Trouble hiring senior engineers? It’s probably you - I take some of these tips in consideration when we hire again in a few weeks ...
Strong on urbanism again this week, but also some interesting random tidbits. It looks like the remote working section will stay with us for a long time. I am so curious about seeing how it will look beginning of next year. Technology Rails Concerns: To Concern Or Not To Concern - the example from Basecamp and responds by DHH should really tell you everything about what to do ...
Early and short list today, as I am off tomorrow. Remote working seems to become a standard section now. It is interesting how the whole world is dealing with it and everybody having strong opinions about it. Plus the usual technology, bike lanes and random links. Technology Fun and Games with Exposure Notifications - I love this stuff. Exposure Notifications is an open protocol by Apple and Google, there are open source reference implementations, most of the code is already available on Linux and someone can be bothered to implement it himself and document it. ...