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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" > <channel> <title>Tooth of the Weasel</title> <atom:link href="https://angryweasel.com/?feed=rss2" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://angryweasel.com/blog</link> <description>stuff you should know</description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 21:36:54 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2</generator><site xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">21016971</site> <item> <title>Five for Friday – April 26, 2024</title> <link>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-april-26-2024/</link> <comments>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-april-26-2024/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Page]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 21:36:51 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All Posts]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://angryweasel.com/blog/?p=2338</guid> <description><![CDATA[Back again for another week of interesting things that I think are worth sharing. All for now – see you in a week.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Back again for another week of interesting things that I think are worth sharing.</p> <ul><li>I’m guessing everyone already knows that <a href="https://newsroom.ibm.com/2024-04-24-IBM-to-Acquire-HashiCorp-Inc-Creating-a-Comprehensive-End-to-End-Hybrid-Cloud-Platform">IBM is buying Hashicorp</a> – which is interesting, but maybe inevitable. We’ll see how this plays out.</li> <li>I spent a chunk of time reading some code in the recent release of the <a href="https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/tree/main/v4.0">MS DOS 4.0 source code</a>, and it certainly brought back some memories. I don’t think I ever looked at this while I was at msft (I joined in 1995), but I was certainly a heavy user of DOS4 when it came out.</li> <li>A fantastic article from Johanna Rothman this week on <a href="https://www.jrothman.com/mpd/2024/04/how-to-move-from-story-points-and-magical-thinking-to-cycle-time-for-decisions/">How to Move from Story Points and Magical Thinking to Cycle Time for Decisions</a></li> <li>I’ve worked on internal-facing tools for most of my career. <em>Many</em> times in the past few decades, I’ve been asked if something I or my team wrote should be sold (or given) externally. This article on <a href="https://www.probablewisdom.com/p/productizing-internal-tools">Productizing internal tools</a> does a wonderful job discussing when this is – or isn’t a good idea.</li> <li>Lastly – I was asked a few times recently about the recording platform we use for AB Testing – we use <a href="https://riverside.fm/">Riverside.fm</a> – which so far has been near perfect, and a huge upgrade over zencastr. Hopefully it continues to deliver.</li></ul> <p>All for now – see you in a week.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-april-26-2024/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2338</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Five for Friday – April 19, 2024</title> <link>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-april-19-2024/</link> <comments>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-april-19-2024/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Page]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 19:29:13 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All Posts]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://angryweasel.com/blog/?p=2334</guid> <description><![CDATA[I’m back for another week of weird – or sometimes interesting things I’ve found on the internet. And that wraps up another week. Hope you found something interesting.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’m back for another week of weird – or sometimes interesting things I’ve found on the internet.</p> <ul><li>First up, is <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12637874/episodes/?season=1">Fallout</a> on Amazon Prime. Fallout 4 is probably my favorite video game of all time, so I was a little hesitant to watch the series…but it’s fantastic. It’s a great story, and has a nice amount of pulls directly from the game while building on the Fallout world.</li> <li>This week, Dan Ariely wrote In <a href="https://danariely.com/in-defense-of-mistakes/">Defense of Mistakes</a> – which is really just another article advocating to learn from mistakes, but it’s still worth reading.</li> <li>I stumbled on this article about whether or not you really <a href="https://mattklein123.dev/2024/04/10/do-you-need-to-store-that-telemetry/">need to store all that telemetry</a>. I remember talking to a developer on the Exchange team ~15 years ago, and at that time they had a lot of similar struggles – but nowhere near as elegant of a response as in this article.</li> <li>This article has a retrospectively obvious title with a great support story. <a href="https://zaidesanton.substack.com/p/most-micromanagers-are-blind-to-being">Most micromanagers are blind to being seen as one</a>.</li> <li>I’ve been reading <a href="https://store.hbr.org/product/move-fast-and-fix-things-the-trusted-leader-s-guide-to-solving-hard-problems/10546">Move Fast and Fix Things</a>, and enjoying it. It reinforces the necessity of trust building when driving organizational change. It’s on the money with some good ideas.</li></ul> <p>And that wraps up another week. Hope you found something interesting.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-april-19-2024/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2334</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Five for Friday – April 12, 2024</title> <link>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-april-12-2024/</link> <comments>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-april-12-2024/#comments</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Page]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 16:43:25 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All Posts]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://angryweasel.com/blog/?p=2332</guid> <description><![CDATA[Another week – a few more interesting discoveries from the internet. That’s Five, so I’m out. Have a great weekend.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another week – a few more interesting discoveries from the internet.</p> <ul><li>First off – the <a href="https://google.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8uCHA4aRzcGDjg2">2024 DORA survey</a> is out. I look forward to seeing the results and analysis when they’re available.</li> <li>I continue to be a fan of Steve Denning’s writing – and of simple heuristics as well. His latest article on <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2024/04/07/a-powerful-tool-that-sees-behind-the-financial-headlines">A Powerful Tool That Sees Behind The Financial Headlines</a> is really interesting.</li> <li>I found <a href="https://sadservers.com/">Sad Servers</a> this week. It’s like a CTF – but for debugging linux servers. </li> <li>I dropped using Windows when I left Microsoft (and used a Mac laptop my last year there). But it’s taken me until this week to discover <a href="https://www.raycast.com/">RayCast</a>, and I’m an insta-fan.</li> <li>Finally, HBR hit it out of the park with this short – and painfully accurate article on <a href="https://hbr.org/2024/04/4-reasons-why-managers-fail">4 Reasons Why Managers Fail</a>.</li></ul> <p>That’s Five, so I’m out. Have a great weekend.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-april-12-2024/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2332</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Five for Friday – April 5, 2024</title> <link>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-april-5-2024/</link> <comments>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-april-5-2024/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Page]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 17:55:50 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All Posts]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://angryweasel.com/blog/?p=2329</guid> <description><![CDATA[It’s been another too-full week – but here are a few things I’ve found worth sharing. Once again, thanks for reading – see ya’ in a week.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It’s been another too-full week – but here are a few things I’ve found worth sharing.</p> <ul><li>First – I don’t often use these posts to talk about the podcast, but this week was both the 10th anniversary, and our <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abtesting/episodes/Episode-200-ITS-EPISODE-200-e2hurne">200th episode</a>. I promise to <em>try</em> to not talk about the podcast until we get to 250.</li> <li>There’s a lot of good advice in this article on <a href="https://www.thecaringtechie.com/p/how-to-self-manage-even-if-you-have">How to Self-Manage Even if You Have a Manager</a> – just about everyone I know who’s been successful in knowledge work has inherently followed most of this advice early in their career</li> <li>Raymond Chen’s blog is the only Microsoft blog I read. Every so often there’s yet-another-entry in his wrong-side-of-this-airtight-hatchway series where someone <em>discovers</em> that as an administrator, they can mess up their system. Makes me shake my head, but always still a fun read. <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240404-00/?p=109612">It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: System corruption caused by an administrator</a></li> <li>It still pains me how many people “test” LLMs without any idea how they work. This quiz – <a href="https://quiz.cord.com/">Exploring LLM Weirdness: A Quiz Game</a> has you interact with an LLM until you can teach it the right answer – and in doing so, explains the limitations of LLMs and provides a few insights into how they work.</li> <li>Finally, I’ve been taking a break from Starfield and Baldur’s Gate to play <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodstained:_Ritual_of_the_Night">Bloodstained</a>. I’m always a sucker for metroidvania games, and this one has been a lot of fun so far</li></ul> <p>Once again, thanks for reading – see ya’ in a week.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-april-5-2024/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2329</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Five for Friday – March 29, 2024</title> <link>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-march-29-2024/</link> <comments>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-march-29-2024/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Page]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2024 03:33:56 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All Posts]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://angryweasel.com/blog/?p=2325</guid> <description><![CDATA[Happy Friday everyone – read on for some potential interest… That’s all for this week, and that’s all for March 2024. Hope to see some of you (virtually) Wednesday night.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Happy Friday everyone – read on for some potential interest…</p> <ul><li>First, an announcement. Wednesday, April 3 is the <strong>Tenth Anniversary of the AB Testing Podcast</strong> – and it’s also our 200th episode. We’re going to record it live at 6:00pm PDT – it’s basically a podcast / webinar. <br />If you want to take part, <a href="https://join.slack.com/t/oneofthethree/shared_invite/zt-2edkqq95d-m9Lb5Xz45RuZdv2bGCFTeQ">join our Slack group</a> and you’ll find a gcal link in the #general channel – or if you don’t do slack, I’ll plan to post details on linkedin beginning on Monday.</li> <li>I’m a little late in posting today, because I took the day off for first hike of the spring. <a href="https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/wallace-falls-lake-loop">The Wallace Lake Loop</a> was perfect – with a few side trip, it was a fun ten miles.</li> <li>As a current remote worker – and an advocate, I found a lot of interesting points in this <a href="https://bloomberry.com/the-state-of-remote-work/">2024 State of Remote Work</a>.</li> <li>This article is targeted at Quality Engineers, but everyone should read it – <a href="https://medium.com/slalom-build/rag-for-quality-engineers-c5f0828292b1">RAG for Quality Engineers</a></li> <li>And…I stumbled this article from Ryan Peterman that was clear, accurate, and valuable <a href="https://www.developing.dev/p/the-tech-leads-playbook">The Tech Lead’s Playbook</a>.</li></ul> <p>That’s all for this week, and that’s all for March 2024. Hope to see some of you (virtually) Wednesday night.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-march-29-2024/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2325</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Five for Friday – March 22, 2024</title> <link>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-march-22-2024/</link> <comments>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-march-22-2024/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Page]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 21:17:56 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All Posts]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://angryweasel.com/blog/?p=2323</guid> <description><![CDATA[I journeyed into public last weekend…and caught a cold. Fortunately, I’m well on the mend, but after a whole lot of isolation over the last four years, being sick is rare – in face, other than my one time bout of COVID last August, this has probably been the only time I’ve been sick since […]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I journeyed into public last weekend…and caught a cold. Fortunately, I’m well on the mend, but after a whole lot of isolation over the last four years, being sick is rare – in face, other than my one time bout of COVID last August, this has probably been the only time I’ve been sick since 2019 or earlier.</p> <p>Anyway – I still had a lot of time to find a few interesting things worth sharing.</p> <ul><li>Maaret’s latest post on <a href="https://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2024/03/urban-legends-fact-checking-and.html">Urban Legends, Fact Checking and Speaking in Conferences</a> was a good read, and it was a strong reminder to me how often folks base talks and articles on half-truths or non-researched anecdotes. Presentations (IMO) are <em>primarily</em> entertainment, but I think fact checking is more than worth the effort.</li> <li>I feel like far more people reference Accelerate than have actually read Accelerate. Molz wrote a fantastic post all around chapter 3 – the chapter on culture. <a href="https://mollysheets.com/2024/03/17/how-culture-impacts-efficiency-applying-accelerate-to-game-studio-culture/">How Culture Impacts Efficiency: Applying “Accelerate” to Game Studio Culture</a></li> <li>I’ve become a big fan of the writing of Hazel Weakly – I especially liked this post on <a href="https://hazelweakly.me/blog/redefining-observability/">Redefining Observability</a></li> <li>One of articles more leaders should read is this on on <a href="https://hbr.org/2024/03/fighting-loneliness-on-remote-teams">Fighting Loneliness with Remote Teams</a></li> <li>Finally, I have a lot of stories about how music and software development relate – and I believe that other than the details of tech, there are a lot of patterns in all knowledge work – so I LOVED this article on <a href="https://zenfamily.dental/csLearnDental.php">Five things Software Engineers can learn from Medicine / Dentistry</a></li></ul> <p>Time for me to go take a power nap – see you all next week (or tomorrow if you read the other blog).</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-march-22-2024/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2323</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Five for Friday – March 15, 2024</title> <link>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-march-15-2024/</link> <comments>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-march-15-2024/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Page]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:47:30 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All Posts]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://angryweasel.com/blog/?p=2320</guid> <description><![CDATA[How did it get to be the middle of March already? Here are a few things worth sharing this week. That’s it -a busy weekend coming up in weasel-ville, but I should be back with 5 more bits of random trivia when I return.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How did it get to be the middle of March already? Here are a few things worth sharing this week.</p> <ul><li>I just finished reading <a href="https://adamgrant.net/book/hidden-potential/">Hidden Potential</a> by Adam Grant. I’ve read everything Grant has written, and this could be his best book. My highlights are extensive, but I’ll just share two quotes.<br /><em>In life, there are few things more consequential than the judgments people make of our potential.</em><br />and<br /><em>Impostor syndrome says, “I don’t know what I’m doing. It’s only a matter of time until everyone finds out.” Growth mindset says, “I don’t know what I’m doing yet. It’s only a matter of time until I figure it out.”</em></li> <li>Speaking of highlights, I’ve mentioned before that I use Obsidian for all of my notes. The <a href="https://github.com/hadynz/obsidian-kindle-plugin">Kindle Highlights</a> plugin for obsidian pulls all of my highlights into Obsidian – which means I can quickly find what I highlighted, or search my highlights for specific phrases. It’s not a lot, but given how much I read, it’s wonderful.</li> <li>Lisa Crispin has a great post this week (which I would say even if she <em>didn’t</em> call out the AB Testing Podcast on <a href="https://lisacrispin.com/2024/03/11/a-look-back-at-release-engineering/">A look back at release engineering</a>.</li> <li>One of the reasons a team may not need extensive manual testing is if they extensively dogfood their product. Sometimes, some portions of the product need fresh sets of eyes, so I really like this idea from Graphite on <a href="https://graphite.dev/blog/onboarding-roulette">Onboarding roulette: deleting our employee accounts daily</a>.</li> <li>And finally, I always enjoy an article that draws from Dan Pink. This post on <a href="https://makemeacto.substack.com/p/mastering-team-autonomy-a-ctos-dilemma">building autonomy as a CTO</a> makes a lot of great points.</li></ul> <p>That’s it -a busy weekend coming up in weasel-ville, but I should be back with 5 more bits of random trivia when I return.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-march-15-2024/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2320</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Five for Friday – March 8, 2024</title> <link>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-march-8-2024/</link> <comments>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-march-8-2024/#comments</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Page]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2024 18:40:40 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All Posts]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://angryweasel.com/blog/?p=2318</guid> <description><![CDATA[So much cool stuff going on that I’m not even going to talk about the State of the Union speech last night. Instead – slightly less controversial, and more geeky stuff for me to share. That last editorial aside, this week’s FfF is complete. Have a great weekend, enjoy yourselves, and stay safe (and warm).]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So much cool stuff going on that I’m not even going to talk about the State of the Union speech last night. Instead – slightly less controversial, and more geeky stuff for me to share.</p> <ul><li>I was on the <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037134/14599858">Quality Bits podcast with Lina Zubyte</a> recently. It was a lot of fun, and <em>possibly</em> worth checking out.</li> <li>Danny Faught has a long-overdue (but fascinating) update in his writing on Jerry Weinberg – <a href="https://swalchemist.wordpress.com/2024/03/02/the-rise-of-the-tabulators/">The Rise of the Tabulators</a>.</li> <li>In case you missed it, Agile is Dead. But it’s not. But it is. Either way, <a href="https://pragdave.me/thoughts/active/2014-03-04-time-to-kill-agile.html">this article from Dave Thomas</a> is spot on.</li> <li>I wrote about OKRs (aka Big Rocks) recently on the other blog. I loved this blog post – and adored the title. <a href="https://asktheuxer.com/2024/03/01/if-culture-eats-strategy-for-breakfast-okrs-are-just-the-cheap-juice-everyone-gulps-down-first/">If culture eats strategy for breakfast, OKRs are just the cheap juice everyone gulps down first</a>.</li> <li>Finally, once upon a time, I helped one of the first teams at Microsoft use git for their source control (after way too long using a perforce fork). I know that <for reasons>, msft would never have used Mercurial, but I finally understand <a href="https://graphite.dev/blog/why-facebook-doesnt-use-git">Why Facebook doesn’t use Git</a>. It’s probably worth noting that the recounted conversations with the git team were a lot like discussions at Microsoft. Caring about the customer goes a long way.</li></ul> <p>That last editorial aside, this week’s FfF is complete. Have a great weekend, enjoy yourselves, and stay safe (and warm).</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-march-8-2024/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2318</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Five for Friday – March 1, 2024</title> <link>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-march-1-2024/</link> <comments>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-march-1-2024/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Page]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2024 21:09:56 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All Posts]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://angryweasel.com/blog/?p=2315</guid> <description><![CDATA[It’s Friday (again). Here are a few links I think you’ll like. And that’s all. Happy March – see you in a week.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It’s Friday (again). Here are a few links I think you’ll like.</p> <ul><li>A great post from Janet Gregory this week on <a href="https://agiletestingfellow.com/blog/post/quality-coaches">Quality Coaches</a>.</li> <li>Yesterday was that stupid day that happens every four years when stuff breaks that shouldn’t. <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/29/fuel_pump_leap_year_bug/">Tech can’t handle dates</a>.</li> <li>So. Many. Great. Points in this article by Johanna Rothman on the continued <a href="https://www.jrothman.com/mpd/2024/02/why-we-continue-our-quest-for-silver-bullets/">quest for silver bullets</a>.</li> <li>Probably just a head-nodder for most of the FfF readers, but I liked the summary of these theam <a href="https://www.inc.com/peter-economy/7-powerful-hacks-to-keep-your-team-motivated-thriving.html">Productivity Hacks</a> – especially the Ditch The Useless Meetings tip.</li> <li>Last weekend I watched <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Light_We_Cannot_See_(miniseries)">All the Light We Cannot See</a> on Netflix. You can look at it as a four-part miniseries, or as I did, as a single four-hour movie. I thought it was fantastic.<br />Yes, I know there’s a book too, and that the book was probably better (they always are), but I highly recommend this one.</li></ul> <p>And that’s all. Happy March – see you in a week.</p> <p></p> <p></p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-march-1-2024/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2315</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Five for Friday – February 23 2024</title> <link>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-february-23-2024/</link> <comments>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-february-23-2024/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Page]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:45:46 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All Posts]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://angryweasel.com/blog/?p=2311</guid> <description><![CDATA[It’s the time of year in Seattle where we see a little sunshine and briefly think that Spring is near…but it’s a trap. It will be raining and 40f next week. Here are a few things I read this week worth sharing. And that’s it for another week. See you in March!]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It’s the time of year in Seattle where we see a little sunshine and briefly think that Spring is near…but it’s a trap. It will be raining and 40f next week.</p> <p>Here are a few things I read this week worth sharing.</p> <ul><li>As I’m writing this, I’m listening to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_NKuuQ4Hy0">Paramore’s cover of Burning Down the House</a> for the 900th time. Everything I love from TH magically transported to the 21st century. <br />Hayley Williams and David Byrne for president!</li> <li>As regular readers know, few things irk me more than people describing why Agile “doesn’t work” and then explaining that their process isn’t Agile at all. Anyway – this article on <a href="https://www.pcloadletter.dev/blog/agile/">Agile is a tainted term</a> contains this gem of a quote.<br />“<em>There are some takes out there that agile is dead. I don’t think that’s quite true, but the word “agile” is certainly dead dead. It’s devoid of any meaning because it means everything and nothing all at once. The principles of agile development are still wonderful and useful, but there is no longer a singular word that can helpfully convey them. Maybe there really never was, but for sure none exists today</em>.”</li> <li>In my never-ending quest to understand enough about LLMs and GenAI to not sound like as much of an idiot as the self-proclaimed experts on linkedin, I read this article on <a href="https://matt.si/2024-02/llms-overpromised/">Large Language Models Are Drunk at the Wheel</a></li> <li>Will Larson has a new book – <a href="https://lethain.com/eng-execs-primer/">The Engineering Executive’s Primer</a>. I’ve read the first few chapters, and as is typical with Larson’s writing, it’s packed full of relevant and pragmatic information.</li> <li>Finally – It’s that time of the year again – it’s time for the mediocre sports league that I love anyway (MLS) to kick off another season. If you’re reading this blog / newsletter thingy from outside the US, here’s a write up on the only match you care about. <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/22/sport/lionel-messi-inter-miami-mls-season-opener-spt-intl/index.html">Lionel Messi skill lights up Inter Miami’s MLS season opener</a>.</li></ul> <p>And that’s it for another week. See you in March!</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-february-23-2024/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2311</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Five for Friday – February 16, 2024</title> <link>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-february-16-2024/</link> <comments>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-february-16-2024/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Page]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 21:49:36 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All Posts]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://angryweasel.com/blog/?p=2309</guid> <description><![CDATA[Wow. This week went quickly – but the internet never fails to provide interesting things for me. Hope you found something interesting – see ya’ in a week.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow. This week went quickly – but the internet never fails to provide interesting things for me.</p> <ul><li>Elisabeth Hendrickson wrote <strong>two</strong> fantastic articles this week. The first covers something I stress a lot – <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/your-next-manager-elisabeth-hendrickson-obcbf/">interview the company who is hiring you</a>. The second builds on the first, and discusses <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/top-5-manager-failure-modes-elisabeth-hendrickson-noacc/">manager failure modes</a>. Read them both.</li> <li>I had to look if I posted this already. Either it’s a duplicate, or I can’t read, but either way, it’s worth reading (again). <a href="https://github.blog/2024-01-23-good-devex-increases-productivity/">Yes, good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the data</a>.</li> <li>Loved this post from Bryan Finster on being <a href="https://medium.com/defense-unicorns/5-minute-devops-im-too-smart-to-make-mistakes-1227f2647e25">Too Smart to Make Mistakes</a></li> <li>I’ve contributed to a few tech career ladders in my life. Trish Khoo has a great write up of some of the behind the scenes that goes into <a href="https://trishkhoo.com/2024/02/how-octopus-adapted-engineering-career-ladders-as-we-scaled/">creating a good career ladder</a>.</li> <li>I knew <em>some</em> of this, but definitely not all. This was a nice article on <a href="https://wirekat.com/the-almost-interesting-history-of-port-numbers/">The History of Port Numbers</a></li></ul> <p>Hope you found something interesting – see ya’ in a week.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-february-16-2024/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2309</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Five for Friday – February 9, 2024</title> <link>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-february-9-2024/</link> <comments>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-february-9-2024/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Page]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2024 19:46:55 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All Posts]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://angryweasel.com/blog/?p=2306</guid> <description><![CDATA[Another week, another five things I found that I though were worth sharing. Stay safe this weekend – see ya’ next week.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another week, another five things I found that I though were worth sharing.</p> <ul><li>Last week, I posted a link to a great article on writing good commit messages. Joshah then showed me <a href="https://github.com/Everduin94/better-commits">Better Commits </a>– a cli that locks you into good commit messages. Super cool!</li> <li>Speaking (sort of) of commits, I found out about <a href="https://v5.chriskrycho.com/essays/jj-init/">jujitsu</a> – which seems like some cool frosting for git.</li> <li>And while we’re still on the command line, I heard about <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/introducing-sudo-for-windows/">Sudo for Windows</a> yesterday. I haven’t used windows regularly in nearly a decade, but when I did, I never ran as admin, and wrote an “as-admin” script that allowed me to easily elevate my access for specific commands. I’m sure a million other people who weren’t dumb enough to run as admin all of the time did the same. Now I guess it’s part of windows and someone was arrogant enough to call it Sudo for Windows. You do you, Microsoft.</li> <li>I heard about <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105735152-the-friction-project">The Friction Project</a> when Bob Sutton was on Adam Grant’s podcast a few weeks ago, and it was an instant buy for me (Suttons research on <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33503509-the-asshole-survival-guide">assholes</a> is impeccable). I’m a few chapters in, and my neck hurts from nodding.</li> <li>It’s time for one of the few times a year anyone actually watches commercials. This year, I’m prepared for funny-commercial Sunday with<a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/super-bowl-2024-commercials-watch-all/5078082/"> this set of previews</a>.</li></ul> <p>Stay safe this weekend – see ya’ next week.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-february-9-2024/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2306</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Five for Friday – February 2, 2024</title> <link>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-february-2-2024/</link> <comments>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-february-2-2024/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Page]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:15:31 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All Posts]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://angryweasel.com/blog/?p=2304</guid> <description><![CDATA[Is it just me, or did January feel like it was about three months long? Here are a few things I spent some time with in what the calendar tells me was the last week of January. Thanks for reading – see you next week.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is it just me, or did January feel like it was about three months long? Here are a few things I spent some time with in what the calendar tells me was the last week of January.</p> <ul><li>I’m learning a lot from our guests on the AB Testing Podcast. Our most recent guest, Jason Arbon has an AI based test tool worth learning about – <a href="https://www.testersai.com/">Checkie.AI</a></li> <li>And before Jason, Bryan Finster was on the podcast and talked about his involvement in <a href="https://minimumcd.org">MinimumCD.org</a> – which has a ton of great information.</li> <li>Speaking of CD (sort of), Martin Fowler recently updated his wiki page on <a href="https://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html">Continuous Integration</a>, and it’s pretty freaking fantastic.</li> <li>I despise performance reviews – not the concept as much as the wording. I prefer “career discussions” or at worst, “performance reflections”. But – corporate America is going do do what corporate America does. if you want to break out of the bubble, consider these tips on <a href="https://hbr.org/2023/12/how-to-create-your-own-year-in-review">How to Create Your Own “Year in Review</a></li> <li>Finally, an old article, but I’ve been thinking about pull request comments for some reason this week, and came across this old article on a <a href="https://dhwthompson.com/2019/my-favourite-git-commit">favorite git commit</a> – it’s a good reminder and tip for a lot of folks. I encourage you to click through on the links as well if you want more ideas.</li></ul> <p>Thanks for reading – see you next week.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-february-2-2024/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2304</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Five for Friday – January 26, 2024</title> <link>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-january-26-2024/</link> <comments>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-january-26-2024/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Page]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2024 18:06:58 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All Posts]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://angryweasel.com/blog/?p=2301</guid> <description><![CDATA[Busy – and weird week for me. But here are some insights to what I’ve been up to. That’s all you get this week (not even gonna look to see if that’s five or not). Hang in there, and see you all in 7 days.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Busy – and weird week for me. But here are some insights to what I’ve been up to.</p> <ul><li>More trash fiction. Almost done with the latest <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62983544-the-secret">Jack Reacher “novel”</a>. I’ve read them all, and while they’re completely templatized and formulaic, I still enjoy reading the new one every year. Note – the Reacher series on Amazon is also very good, but season 2 was a considerable drop off in quality from season 1 – but still worth watching.</li> <li>I absolutely <strong>loved</strong> this article on <a href="https://zyngaengineering.substack.com/p/the-kubernetes-eras-tour-how-zynga">Kubernetes from The Zynga Team</a>. Great info, and wonderfully written.</li> <li>There is SO much coming out about the benefits of Developer Experience recently – <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3639443">this ACM article </a>from Nicole Forsgren, Abi Noda, and a cast of others (no offense) is a great read for those interested in the topic.</li> <li>I read – and re-read this article about <a href="https://www.itpro.com/software/agile-development-is-fading-in-popularity-at-large-enterprises-and-developer-burnout-is-a-key-factor">Agile fading at large companies due to burnout</a> – and.. it’s frustrating. Personally, I blame SAFe, but on a larger scale, it’s yet another example of people/teams trying to use tools and processes to solve human problems. Agile isn’t “a framework for faster delivery” – the principles focus on learning and adaptability, and if businesses don’t build that culture, of COURSE you get burnout and shitty delivery.</li> <li>The first programming language I learned (unless you call batch files programming) was C. My mentor, Chris, taught me the three most important things about programming in C (pointers, pointers, and pointers). With that in mind, I spent a considerable amount of time reading through reconstructed <a href="https://github.com/lethal-guitar/Duke2Reconstructed/">Duke Nukem 2 source code</a> this week. I spent so much of my career reading and writing code similar to this that it brought warm fuzzies to my geek heart.</li></ul> <p>That’s all you get this week (not even gonna look to see if that’s five or not). Hang in there, and see you all in 7 days.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-january-26-2024/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2301</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Five for Friday – January 19, 2004</title> <link>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-january-19-2004/</link> <comments>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-january-19-2004/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Page]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:58:04 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All Posts]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://angryweasel.com/blog/?p=2299</guid> <description><![CDATA[It was a weird week for me. But there were some good points as well. As usual, here are some things I found interesting. Thanks for reading – see you next week.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It was a weird week for me. But there were some good points as well. As usual, here are some things I found interesting.</p> <ul><li>I’m reading <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59891634-smart-brevity">Smart Brevity</a> – and wishing a lot more people would read it as well. Great communication comes in fewer words, and gets to the point quickly. This book is both a reminder and a coach on that topic.</li> <li>Leaddev published <a href="https://leaddev.com/huddle/software-engineering-predictions-2024">some predictions for 2024 (from engineering leaders)</a>. There’s nothing overly profound here – in fact, the predictions are things I feel like <em>should</em> happen. But I found them valuable to think of as an approach to thinking about how we approach software development in the coming year.</li> <li>One of the best things to happen as a result of the McKinsey report on developer productivity has been the flurry of <em>better</em> articles rebutting their idiotic report. The latest is t<a href="https://blog.buildtosell.org/productivity-in-software-development-the-lean-perspective/">he lean perspective</a> from build to sell. </li> <li>I’ve been re-watching Ted Lasso and then listening to the episodes of the <a href="https://poponleadership.com/">Pop! on Leadership </a>podcast where they discuss the leadership lessons of each episode. Probably just me, but it’s a lot of fun.</li> <li>I’m still working my way through Starfield – but currently stuck in a no-win situation and haven’t built up the nerve to go back to an old save to move forward. In the meantime, I’ve been playing <a href="https://baldursgate3.game/">Baldur’s Gate 3</a> and really enjoying it. Straight Dungeons and Dragons clone, and really well done.</li></ul> <p>Thanks for reading – see you next week.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-january-19-2004/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2299</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Five for Friday – January 12, 2024</title> <link>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-january-12-2024/</link> <comments>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-january-12-2024/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Page]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2024 22:09:58 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All Posts]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://angryweasel.com/blog/?p=2296</guid> <description><![CDATA[I just walked back from the gym, where my normal 10 minute walk felt like much longer in the 20-degree (f) Seattle weather. Here are a few links I found scrawled on the sidewalk on the way home. Enjoy your weekends everyone – see you in a week.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just walked back from the gym, where my normal 10 minute walk felt like much longer in the 20-degree (f) Seattle weather. Here are a few links I found scrawled on the sidewalk on the way home.</p> <ul><li>It’s time for the <a href="https://www.practitest.com/state-of-testing/">2024 State of Testing</a> survey. Fill it out and confirm that developers should be doing the vast majority of the testing on mature teams.</li> <li>I can’t say I didn’t see it coming, but <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/unity-software-cutting-25-staff-company-reset-continuation-2024-01-08/">Unity is laying off a whole-lot-o-people this mon</a>th. Pretty wild times.</li> <li>If you read the other blog, you’ll know that I’m big on employee engagement. I was prepared to not like this article on <a href="https://hbr.org/2024/01/3-key-metrics-that-employee-engagement-surveys-miss">3 Key Metrics That Employee Engagement Surveys Miss</a> – but I did like it. And I agree with it.</li> <li>I’m reading <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75665850-clear-thinking">Clear Thinking</a>, by Shane Parrish, and so far, I’m really liking it. </li> <li>Finally – I sort of believe that everyone should know a little about browser debugging. It’s just darn handy. I learned A LOT from this article on <a href="https://alan.norbauer.com/articles/browser-debugging-tricks">67 Weird Debugging Tricks Your Browser Doesn’t Want You to Know</a></li></ul> <p>Enjoy your weekends everyone – see you in a week.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-january-12-2024/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2296</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Five for Friday – January 5, 2024</title> <link>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-january-5-2024/</link> <comments>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-january-5-2024/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Page]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2024 13:22:07 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All Posts]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://angryweasel.com/blog/?p=2294</guid> <description><![CDATA[Happy New Year FfF readers. I had a nice little break from posting, but the random links of random things are back. It’s good to be back – thanks for reading (and thanks internet for an endless supply of interesting articles)]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Happy New Year FfF readers. I had a nice little break from posting, but the random links of random things are back.</p> <ul><li>I read <em>fiction</em> during my break. I <em>like</em> fiction, but I read so many other books that I don’t make time for it. I read four books over break, but I am an absolute sucker for books about time travel. I just find it interesting to see how yet-another-author tries to explain how time travel works in their made up world. Nobody does a great job, but I read <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42046112-recursion">Recursion</a>, by Blake Crouch, and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60522318">Lost In Time</a>, by A.G. Riddle, and both authors made a reasonable attempt. Neither of these two are literary masterpieces, but they were fun reads (Recursion being a bit better).</li> <li>One link will get you many – <a href="https://nudge.unblocked.engineering/p/writing-and-improving-code-with-ai">this is the first post in a series on Writing and Improving Code with AI</a>. I think the people who figure out how to accelerate and improve their work through AI will be the superstars of the future.</li> <li>Linked in shared their Develo<a href="https://linkedin.github.io/dph-framework/">per Productivity and Happiness Framework</a>. I think it’s definitely worth browsing (if not bookmarking).</li> <li>I read this article on <a href="https://hbr.org/2023/12/8-essential-qualities-of-successful-leaders">8 Essential Qualities of Successful Leaders</a> – it’s pretty good, and there’s nothing I disagree with – but given that the attributes lean heavily on the human side, I think <em>self-reflection</em> may be missing. Without the ability to look at yourself, and the way you’re coming across, some of these would be hard to master.</li> <li>Here’s a fun one to close with. A developer thought they were interviewing. Instead, the fake hiring company <a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/blockchain-devs-wallet-emptied-in-job-interview-using-npm-package/">drained their crypto wallet</a>.</li></ul> <p>It’s good to be back – thanks for reading (and thanks internet for an endless supply of interesting articles)</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-january-5-2024/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2294</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Five for Friday – December 8, 2023</title> <link>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-december-8-2023/</link> <comments>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-december-8-2023/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Page]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2023 20:25:13 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All Posts]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://angryweasel.com/blog/?p=2291</guid> <description><![CDATA[Hi folks – FfF is going to be sporadic over the remainder of the year due to travel, breaks, etc. But…I found some stuff this week worth reading. If you don’t hear from me again until January, have a great holiday season. Catch up with you soon.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi folks – FfF is going to be sporadic over the remainder of the year due to travel, breaks, etc. But…I found some stuff this week worth reading.</p> <ul><li>This is a few months old, but this article on <a href="https://renegadeotter.com/2023/09/10/death-by-a-thousand-microservices">Death by a Thousand Microservices</a> makes a lot of great points.</li> <li>I read a lot of Seth Godin, but I don’t link to his posts very much. <a href="https://seths.blog/2023/12/abundance-and-ideas/">This one</a>, however, is excellent. All of his posts are short, and easy to read in a minute – but most will make you think and reflect for much longer.</li> <li>Another older one – this came out of a conversation I was having around pitch and frequency, and wondering exactly <em>how</em> music detection algorithms work. My guess was close, but massively incomplete. This article on <a href="https://www.cameronmacleod.com/blog/how-does-shazam-work">How Shazam Works</a>, answered all of my questions.</li> <li>I’ve written before how much I’m a fan of <a href="https://hbr.org/2022/08/a-simple-way-to-introduce-yourself">The First Minute</a> by Chris Fenning – as it teaches you an easy to use framework for framing conversations and getting to the point quickly. I thought this simple article on <a href="https://hbr.org/2022/08/a-simple-way-to-introduce-yourself">How To Introduce Yourself</a> is fantastic as well for, and something here for all of us to learn.</li> <li>Finally, another must-read (IMO) for leaders – <a href="https://www.teflclips.com/building-a-psychologically-safe-team/">The Key To Building A Psychologically Safe Team</a></li></ul> <p>If you don’t hear from me again until January, have a great holiday season. Catch up with you soon.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-december-8-2023/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2291</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Five for Friday – December 1, 2023</title> <link>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-december-1-2023/</link> <comments>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-december-1-2023/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Page]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 21:08:42 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All Posts]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://angryweasel.com/blog/?p=2289</guid> <description><![CDATA[Welcome back to another FfF. Here are a few interesting things I found this week. Thanks again for reading. See ya’ in a week.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome back to another FfF. Here are a few interesting things I found this week.</p> <ul><li>I post this every year, but it’s worth it. The <a href="https://adventofcode.com/">2023 Advent of Code</a> begins today. I never do it all, but I always do a week or two. Tons of fun and stupid programming tricks.</li> <li>Here’s one to save – a nice concise post on <a href="https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2023/11/20/the-bluffers-guide-to-the-mythical-man-month/">The Bluffers Guide to the Mythical Man Month</a></li> <li>Like a lot of people, I’m still wallowing in the possibilities of Generative AI. This article on h<a href="https://hbr.org/2023/11/generative-ai-will-transform-virtual-meetings">ow Generative AI will transform virtual meetings</a> is promising.</li> <li>Many of you know that I’m a huge trivia lover. I had a chance this week to attend a few dive-bar trivia sessions put on by <a href="https://seattlebartrivia.com/">Seattle Bar Trivia</a>, and had a blast.</li> <li>Downtown Seattle still hasn’t quite recovered to what it was before the pandemic, but I like the ideas in this <a href="https://www.downtownisyou.com/">Downtown Seattle Activation Plan</a></li></ul> <p>Thanks again for reading. See ya’ in a week.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-december-1-2023/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2289</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Five for Friday – November 17, 2023</title> <link>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-november-17-2023/</link> <comments>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-november-17-2023/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Page]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2023 21:15:46 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All Posts]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://angryweasel.com/blog/?p=2285</guid> <description><![CDATA[Just a heads up that I’ll probably take next Friday off from posting so I can play Starfield sleep all day. This week has been full of …stuff, but once again, here are a few things I found interesting. And that is that for another week. Hope you found something interesting, and I’ll see you […]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just a heads up that I’ll probably take next Friday off from posting so I can <s>play Starfield</s> sleep all day. This week has been full of …stuff, but once again, here are a few things I found interesting.</p> <ul><li>This article on <a href="https://thenewstack.io/the-struggle-for-microservice-integration-testing/">The Struggle for Microservice Integration Testing</a> was well written and provides a lot of great insights.</li> <li>I love a good root cause story, and this story on <a href="https://engineercodex.substack.com/p/how-one-line-of-code-caused-a-60">How one line of code caused a $60 million loss</a> is worth reading (and learning from)</li> <li>I’m doing something I don’t recommend, and reading <strong>three</strong> books at once. Fortunately, two are re-reads of books that I think are important for me to refresh on right now. One of those (and one highly worth the re-read) is <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97905.The_No_Asshole_Rule">The No Asshole Rule</a> by Bob Sutton. It’s the best book I know of for addressing the impact of negative behavior in the workplace.</li> <li>This is cool. Jason Arbon trained chatgpt on the writings of a bunch of “expert” testers – and it’s pretty good. <a href="https://chat.openai.com/g/g-f802Av5xo-chat-with-expert-testers">Chat GPT Expert Tester Chat</a></li> <li>I’m a huge fan of The Oatmeal, as well as a long-time player of Exploding Kittens. Was excited to see the <a href="https://theoatmeal.com/blog/netflix_trailer1">teaser for the Netflix series</a> this week.</li></ul> <p>And that is that for another week. Hope you found something interesting, and I’ll see you in two weeks.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://angryweasel.com/blog/five-for-friday-november-17-2023/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2285</post-id> </item> </channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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