Tags: web-review, matrix, history, surveillance, surprising, physics, garbage-collector, spreadsheets, health, delegation, estimates, data-science, security, management, rust, laptop, linux, facebook, quality, project-management, dystopia, data, repair, optics, programming, knowledge, frontend, hardware, memory, engineering, tech
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2021-29.
Tags: tech, facebook
This company is just an enabling environment for toxic behaviors… it’s so clear each time some information about how they work leaks out.
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-fired-dozens-abusing-access-user-data-an-ugly-truth-2021-7
Tags: surveillance, dystopia
Here we go for another surveillance scandal…
Tags: tech, matrix
This is excellent news. I like to see more adoption of Matrix. We’ll finally find out how it scales in practice. ;-)
https://matrix.org/blog/2021/07/21/germanys-national-healthcare-system-adopts-matrix
Tags: tech, hardware, repair, laptop
Now that looks like a very interesting modular laptop. I’d be interested to test it and would love to see some KDE stuff installed on it by default. ;-)
Tags: management, delegation
Interesting definition of delegation
https://jacobian.org/2021/jul/19/whats-delegation/
Tags: management, delegation
And a good approach to pick what to delegate.
https://jacobian.org/2021/jul/19/give-away-your-toys/
Tags: management, delegation
Good set of advice on how to handle and plan for failure when delegating.
https://jacobian.org/2021/jul/20/make-failure-safe/
Tags: management, delegation
Again, very good (and short) advice about delegation.
https://jacobian.org/2021/jul/21/delegate-outcomes/
Tags: tech, project-management, estimates
This is a sane approach and a good list of steps for estimating at large scale.
https://tomrussell.co.uk/writing/2021/07/19/estimating-large-scale-software-projects.html
Tags: tech, management, engineering, quality
Very interesting exploration on software engineering “facts” and what we can really do to increase quality. Unsurprisingly caring for the people seems to be the top factor.
https://increment.com/teams/the-epistemology-of-software-quality/
Tags: tech, frontend, memory, garbage-collector
Interesting exploration of an easy to introduce memory leak in frontend code.
https://web.dev/detached-window-memory-leaks/
Tags: tech, security, linux
You gotta love narrowing… It regularly ends up instrumental in vulnerabitilies.
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/20/1
Tags: tech, rust, programming
Nice comprehensive list of the smart pointer types in Rust.
https://dev.to/rogertorres/smart-pointers-in-rust-what-why-and-how-oma
Tags: tech, history, spreadsheets, quality, knowledge, data, data-science, health
It’s a very nice paper on spreadsheets and how we use them. It got enough history in it to make me tick (goes back all the way to the 1300s!). Also it’s well balanced, it’s not just about blindly blaming tools but looks at their shortcomings but also how we often use the wrong tool for the task… and then end up managing data and knowledge really badly.
https://timharford.com/2021/07/the-tyranny-of-spreadsheets/
Tags: optics, surprising, physics
Fascinating exploration of our perception of the blue color. Bottom line: our eyes aren’t great cameras at all and the brain compensate quite a lot. This together plays against our perception of blue.
https://calebkruse.com/10-projects/seeing-blue/
Bye for now!