2021#18 Readings
4 minutes read | 694 words by Ruben BerenguelNext week I start a new job š®
This is material for r/oddlysatisfying
After almost 5.5 years in Hybrid Theory (more exactly, 2000 days!) I was ready for a new challenge, which starts on August 9th. Stay tuned to find out what it is!
Also, this week I got a Mac Mini M1, and it works surprisingly well. Only issue I’ve found so far is that Stellaris doesn’t start properly from Steam, but works from the CLI and that stack tries to find an ARM based GHC and fails, can be fixed by installing a secondary Intel stack via Rosetta2 and using that to install an Intel binary. A bit convoluted but ok so far, I guess for editing it won’t look pretty.
š Self-leadership and the One Minute Manager
So far all One Minute Manager books I have read (all recommended to me) have been excellent and enlightening. As well as short, can recommend.
In defense of simple charts
Simple is hard, and visualisation is probably where simple is hardest.
š How to decide
Pretty good. In the past I had already unknowingly used some of the techniques (like the tree-based approach) to make tough decisions, like staying or leaving a job.
Data News ā Airflow Summit edition
A summary of what is cooking in Airflow land.
Z3 Tutorial in Google Colab
This is a short and pretty to the point tutorial you can play with online. If you skip the longer exercises at the end, can be done in 15 minutes or so. Highly recommended, now I can see myself using Z3 for something.
Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh) Tweeted:
Careers aren’t a linear ladder. Careers are one mechanism to check the “yes” box for questions such as: Is my family cared for? Do I have purpose? Can I do what I love? etc. Different questions for different people. A straight path rarely guarantees “yes” to all of it. Do you.
I’m moving from lead data engineer to senior data engineer. Does not compare, but in a way, does.
The First Atomic Bomb Created This āForbiddenā Quasicrystal
Note that the pressure magnitude should read giga Pascal.
Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure
Seen in Michael Kohlās (happy day-before-birthday!) newsletter. I have a hard time finding ways to recharge, and you?
What’s the weirdest thing you’ve done while your brain was on autopilot?
From AskReddit. This made my day. You may laugh out loud or spill drinks, beware.
šæ Rendering game worlds in text
Fascinating! I have enjoyed Knights of San Francisco, the game he created with this approach.
The Ethics of False Negatives in Interviewing
Interesting timing, since I talked about this subject recently with some friends (all at different ranges of the amount of time they devote to interviewing candidates, from “never” to “too many”).
No, we donāt use Kubernetes
Can relate, at my previous company we had a very similar setup, and works very well (and is easy to understand).
An intro to the Scala presentation compiler
I had thought the presentation compiler was a thing of the past, but this shows how wrong I am (which is very wrong, worse is that I had checked the source of metals at some point for a hackathon, I have a merged PR in one of the “meta” libraries).
