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. ...
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 ...
The open mouth of a hippo sticking out of the water Two podcast recommendations today: the one about culture fit and the one about Escobar’s hippos. Leadership The wrong way to think about culture fit [Podcast] - It is very hard to get this wrong. Similar as values. It is just to easy to abuse. How Infrequent Retrospectives Reduce Learning Cycle Time and Make Everything Worse - retrospectives are still my favourite part of everything agile. ...
This week’s recommendations: the podcast about lawns and why cars are so scary at Halloween. Leadership Why Your Meetings Suck (And How to Fix Them): Insights from Dr. Steven Rogelberg 6 | 37 [Podcast] - focusing on 1:1 meetings Measuring Developer Productivity with Diff Authoring Time [Podcast] - the use case is improving developer experience tools and not measuring developers. TBM 318: Why Orgs Become Too Tall - again a good overview from John about the causes, some of them are difficult to work around. ...