Friday Links 23-15

Friday Links 23-15

The podcasts about the creator of LZ4 and the one about happiness science were interesting and entertaining. LeadershipWe Pay Out Unused Sabbaticals When Someone Leaves Buffer, Here’s Why - interesting choice. With or without shared-component team - I don't really like specialised teams in general ...

May 5, 2023 · 2 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 23-13

Friday Links 23-13

Best croissant in Barcelona For some fun, watch the "Best croissant in Paris" video. Less fun: Cory Doctorow about capitalism. LeadershipBalancing your CEO, peers, and Engineering. - I like the supported/tolerated/resented framework. Before your next offsite Interviewing engineering executives. - "Avoiding the unicorn search" ...

April 21, 2023 · 2 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links 23-12

Many videos about urbanism from the last two weeks. The articles from LinkedIn about measuring developer productivity and happiness and the one about slack by Marting Fowler are also great. This week we also have a short "Music" section. Leadershipthedecider.app - a simple tool to choose a decision process … mostly useful for the overview of processes. ...

April 14, 2023 · 4 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 23-11

Friday Links 23-11

Some nice urbanisation going on in Barcelona. I also enjoyed the podcast about scams and trust. LeadershipThe MarsBased Handbook - I love this kind of open handbook. It is silly that everybody has to invent them from scratch. EngineeringHow LinkedIn automates cherry-picking commits to improve developer productivity - "While most repositories (e.g., web services) practice continuous delivery solely from trunk (or main branch), those (e.g., core libraries) that need to stabilize their release or release on a fixed schedule use release branches." ...

March 31, 2023 · 2 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 23-07

Friday Links 23-07

Another week and too many links. Slava Ukraini But more importantly, today is the anniversary of the aggression against the Ukraine people. It threw me off-centre quite a bit last year, more than the pandemic and more than many things I can remember living through. ...

February 24, 2023 · 5 min · Christof Damian