I have been slacking recently, today you are getting a bigger dose of links. If you want to listen to something nice, have a look at the episode about developer productivity and about keeping our food fresh. Leadership Is engineering strategy useful? - there is always one, best to make it clear Developer productivity with Dr. Nicole Forsgren (creator of DORA, co-creator of SPACE) [Podcast] - I loved this episode. Many good bits. ...
This week, I recommend the blog posts in engineering. Some nice toys to play with. Engineering Building Bauble - language to create shaded graphics and animations. You can modify the code in the blog post to play with it. The Visible Zorker - looking at the inner workings of Zork. Building a tiny Linux from scratch - pretty cool, I haven’t even built my own kernel for a long time. ...
A glass of Marmite Very random collection of links today. The podcast about how cars change us is pretty good, so is the one about how drugs can influence the brain. Leadership Managing Up - I agree that it is mostly about buttering up your boss, while it should be a collaboration. Engineering Fish 4.0: The Fish Of Theseus - I am not a fan of rewrites, but this is a good read and apparently a successful rewrite. Moving bits by bit is also a practical approach. ...
Covers of the books mentioned I kept my reading in pretty light. I mostly read crime series, I am following and binged a new one. There were some books I have been pretty disappointed with. At least this will reduce my future reading list. You can also check out My Year in Books on Goodreads. Non-fiction Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business - I was joining a company focused on Kanban, which I never used fully before. I wanted to catch up with the ideas and concepts. This is a great book for that. Overall, it turned out the company actually used a long to-do list for their planning and not the more advanced ideas. ...
I have been lazy and travelling over the last few Fridays. Today is a catch-up post, with quite a few links. I recommend the podcast about the Reiser story today and the video about the first BMX park in Nigeria. Engineering The Legacy of Unix - Unix: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan [Podcast] - The problem with Bookoverflow is the effect on my to-read list. Story: ReiserFS [Podcast] - Great summary of the whole Reiser saga, with some things I didn’t know already. Tim Bray also has a related post: Remembering Bonnie ...