2022#16 Readings 🇺🇦🌻
4 minutes read | 722 words by Ruben BerenguelSpent a week in Switzerland… and on the flight back caught COVID.
Worth it? I spent a week in workation mode (finishing early in the afternoon so I could take a walk, we were in the Swiss Alps) which meant I read very little, and on Tuesday I started feeling a slight throatache that on Wednesday was confirmed to be COVID. I’m still quite under the weather (fever and joint pain), let’s see how long it takes to go away.
📯 Ray: Another way to distribute work in a cluster
A summary of the Ray paper.
35 Impactful Questions Managers Should Ask Themselves Regularly
They are worth adding as regular reminders
When Everything is Important But Nothing is Getting Done
This is a long post but covers a lot of ground. In terms of scale, it manages to fix the problem for a product/engineering team of 40 people, which is on the smallish side. How would similar problems be tackled in a 150+ team?
Trees form a smiley face along oregon’s douglas fir forest
Nice to see.
Uber and Lyft Are Out of Ideas, Jacking Up Prices in Desperation for Profit
A damning article on these companies.
OutHorse Your Email
Nice! I should have set this up the days I’ve been off sick.
Amazon MSK Serverless Now Generally Available–No More Capacity Planning for Your Managed Kafka Clusters
How the hell is this handling replicas?
Supercharging GitHub Actions with Job Summaries
I should set up some github actions in my public repos to play with this.
What are go workspaces and how do I use them?
Not sure if I have faced needing this in the past, but it’s good having the language evolving.
Four Revolutions: The Lost Chapter: A Concise History Of The LED watch
I was extremely unaware of this story. Fascinating! See also the connection with Texas Instruments and their way of pushing down the price.
Elon Musk: When I saw the Tesla CEO for who he really is.
I wasn’t a fan of him (particularly since his incident with the Thailand kids and their rescuers), this just adds information to the “problems”.
The Sustainable Workload Loop. How to help yourself do better work by managing more than just your time
It’s the 4D system: Decline, Delegate, Defer, Do. Of course you can also have some of Despair, Disappear, Dream.
How We Write GitHub Actions in Go
Convoluted, but seems a good approach if you are running Github Enterprise.
Symphonic Metal Bands: Nerdiness vs Kickassery
The visualisation has a horrible overlap, so certainly there’s Avantasia in there.
I’m All-In on Server-Side SQLite
I love seeing weird and useful things you can do with SQLite. Litestream gives “for free” replication of SQLite databases, which means you can scale pretty nicely with it.
The ROI for manager training: Why it’s your best defense against the great resignation
The problem is, after certain level companies may think their managers need no training at all.
How to make video calls almost as good as face-to-face
Good recommendations. I started using an old iPhone (not extremely old, just a busted battery) as a camera and got an external microphone and these two make a huge difference (or so I am told, since this is one of those things that are improvements for other people to enjoy).
The 7 types of rest that every person needs
When you are past more resting, what is left?
Cargo Culting Software Engineering Practices
You can only be fairly certain of the things you’ve tried yourself in your context, and only as – and those decisions are like fish.
