2022#15 Readings 🇺🇦🌻
3 minutes read | 519 words by Ruben BerenguelShit ain’t gettin' better.
🐦 Being a director vs an engineering manager by Charity Majors
This is very interesting to know, sometimes it’s very hard what your boss is doing all that time.
A Guide To Higher-Kinded Type Classes with Golang
It’s not particularly a user-friendly mapping (bad DX, developer experience, I feel), but can be done.
Why I no longer recommend Julia
This is scary to read. I had been thinking of using Julia for fun, but this gave me pause. I have enough with other stuff to try.
Changing one character wildly improved our application’s performance
From Segment’s tracing system, which takes in very heavy loads. And the change… is painful to see. To easy to fall into that.
So you want to run a virtual event
Wow, this is a very thorough set of tips and recommendations. I have run several online events (at least one conference and several meetups) and these are spot on.
The Perfect Manager/Leader
This newsletter post from John Cutler really hits home. Why is BS the norm?
Learning to walk through walls
Symbolization of a skill - reducing it to a series of discrete symbols that you can practice individually and then combine in application - allows you to become extremely good at a constrained subset of that skill.
A newsletter article by David R. MacIver. You have seen pieces by him here before.
go generics for the busy gopher
Short and to the point. Now if only I had any project idea I could write in Go to refresh my memory of how it works… I have no opportunity to write any Go at work (I could read as much as I want, if I had the time…).
Know the Two — Very — Different Interpretations of Jobs to be Done
I wasn’t aware of the distinction… Something else to be wary of. Beware, this is a pretty long (and with a ton of citations) post.
Run Your Data Team Like A Product Team
A product focus helps in aligning work streams with requirements and requests.
📚 The Alter Ego effect
Some interesting ideas, and it’s a light read. Could probably be shorter without losing what makes it useful.
Working Better with Stakeholders — Three Key Techniques
This is more of a post for product people, but I think it clearly applies to engineers or engineering managers as well.
