by Ray Grasso
Herb Caudill:
Once you’ve learned enough that there’s a certain distance between the current version of your product and the best version of that product you can imagine, then the right approach is not to replace your software with a new version, but to build something new next to it — without throwing away what you have.
Gregor Hohpe:
First and foremost, autonomous teams need to live with the consequences of their decisions.
Yep.
A tired subject but a solid analogy.
David Gasca:
“Silent Meetings” are meetings where most of the time is spent working and not talking. When done correctly most of the meeting is spent silently working together.
A look at radical transparency at the hedge fund Bridgewater.
The man can tell a story.
I’ve been playing with Sketch.systems a bit already. This post looking into adding verification on top of it.
Paul Biggar:
Dark is a holistic programming language, structured editor, and infrastructure, for building backend web services. It’s aimed at frontend, backend, and mobile engineers.
Soup to nuts.
Tim Winton:
Australia is a place with more land than people, more geography than architecture. But it is not and never has been empty. Few landscapes have been so deeply known.
A post that builds up from simple princples. It looks into React, its programming model, its goals, and the trade offs it takes in solving its design challenges.
Jason Cohen:
Startup strategy is like Kung Fu. There are many styles that work. But in a bar fight, you’re going to get punched in the face regardless.
I can only teach you my style. Others can only teach you theirs.
Lots to chew on.
the research is clear: Telling people what we think of their performance doesn’t help them thrive and excel, and telling people how we think they should improve actually hinders learning.
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The only realm in which humans are an unimpeachable source of truth is that of their own feelings and experiences.
Chris Rackliff:
Speaking of lifting others up, your core group of friends can make or break your life. And your participation can make or break theirs as well.
Matt Linderman:
Instead of working with a thing you love, think about how to work in a way you love.
I’m giving Audible a go again. I like it for listening to non-fiction books. Fiction ones, not so much. 🤷♂️
This is totally my bag.
This book surveys data storage and distributed systems and is a fantastic primer for all software developers.
It starts with naive approaches to storing data, quickly builds up to how transactions work, and works up to the complexities of building distributed systems.
I particularly enjoyed the chapter on stream processing and event sourcing. It contrasts stream processing to batch processing and highlights many of the challenges of these approaches and explores options for addressing them.
Still trying to learn how to think better.
Cindy Sridharan quoting Joe Armstrong:
We should identify the error kernel. The error kernel of a system is that part which must be correct. That’s what the error kernel is. All the other code can be incorrect, it doesn’t matter. The error kernel is the part of the system that must be correct. If it’s incorrect, then all bets are off. The error kernel must be correct.
John D. Cook:
The rule of three gives a quick and dirty way to estimate these kinds of probabilities. It says that if you’ve tested N cases and haven’t found what you’re looking for, a reasonable estimate is that the probability is less than 3/N. So in our proofreading example, if you haven’t found any typos in 20 pages, you could estimate that the probability of a page having a typo is less than 15%.
I recently moved the hosting of my various blogs and websites off my own server to Netlify.
I was originally going to set up an S3 bucket and Cloudfront distribution for each of my sites but Netlify provides me the CDN and hosting features I need all bundled up already. You can upload files directly for serving or hook your site up to run a static site generator when you push to a branch of a Github repository.
In short, I’m not longer paying hosting costs and they handle all of the SSL certificate renewal from Let’s Encrypt for me.
Next up I plan to clean up the tooling I use for some of my sites and tweak things on here so I have more variety in my posts.
Hashing syntax trees and storing them directly in a database is very interesting. I’ve long wondered what will come after the grab bag of text files approach we’ve been using to date.
Embrace the power of compounding.
Now you can learn them too.
I ❤️ every time Sam goes on The Watch.
Alex Blumberg interviews Ira Glass.
Come for the Feynman anecdote, stay for the exploration of technology and culture.
A look behind the curtain with Nick Cave.
An improvisational approach.
Ryan Singer on the Product Love podcast talking about strategy, design, and outcomes.