The podcast about culture is great, so is the one with the creator of Kotlin. Tanith’s techno set is pretty great too. Leadership The more you talk about culture, the less people believe you [Podcast] - I have seen some of the stuff they mention. My preferred product management techniques and frameworks - “Talk to everyone” ...
A bit quieter this week. The podcast about the golden ages of computing is interesting, the GitHub issue exploit is also worth a read. Leadership The Complicators, The Drama Aggregators, and The Avoiders - I definitely recognise some of these. Engineering Socialize the Plan - Does reviewing plans really make sense? They are basically throwaway. A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines - oops. ...
I enjoyed the interview with the OpenClaw creator, even if I hate about half of his opinions. The interview with the baker is also great. Leadership Three Bad Managers - three of many. Engineering Michael Stapelberg: PSA: Did you know that it’s unsafe to put code diffs into your commit messages? - this is only for patches, not merging PRs Evolving Git for the next decade [LWN] security & large files are interesting. ...
If you watch one thing this weekend, watch the video about being misled about renewable energy. Spoiler: It’s not just about renewable energy. I still haven’t decided what I think about coding with AI. It has been a great help and I see all the drawbacks. My links reflect this. Leadership Culture is built on ‘moments of truth’ [Podcast] - not a technology company, but still very applicable to all organisations. ...
It is a bit sad that he is leaving In Our Time, but I enjoyed the interview with Melvyn Bragg. The blog post about curiosity as a leader is short and great. Leadership Should you include engineers in your leadership meetings? - interesting idea, not really in my area at the moment. Curiosity is the first-step in problem solving - I think curiosity is always a good place to start from. ...