Pocket is a big part of how I collect the links for the Friday Links. Sadly, Mozilla has decided to shut Pocket down. My plan is to migrate to Readwise Reader, which seems to be a reasonable replacement. I am now migrating some of my helper scripts to make the change easier. You will see next week if I will be successful. :-) ...
A very random collection this week, with some prepping research. The Life-Sized City report from Berlin is pretty cool, so is the one about building a simple game in different engines, I also liked the post about microservices. Engineering Microservices Are a Tax Your Startup Probably Can’t Afford - very long read about the pitfalls and some advantages of microservices. Formally verified cloud-scale authorization [Paper] - fascinating. Maybe only do that if you have a billion calls a second. ...
Many podcasts this week. I really loved the one with Cyndi Lauper. I did enjoy the one with Kent Beck and basically all the engineering and leadership ones. Leadership Kent Beck on why software development is an exercise in human relationships [Podcast] - great interview with Kent, he is so humble and down to earth. Meaning: why showing work matters has such an impact [Podcast] - interesting discussion round. ...
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. ...