Blogs

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2021-42.

Facebook Plans to Rebrand Company With New Name, Verge Says

Tags: tech, facebook, business

Lipstick on a pig as they say. :-)

https://www.inkl.com/news/facebook-plans-to-rebrand-company-with-new-name-verge-says?share=pWQmVXfrAQr

Software Freedom Conservancy files lawsuit against California TV manufacturer Vizio Inc. for GPL violations

Tags: legal, free-software, compliance

Important lawsuit, let’s hope it goes through.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html

Jira: Razor Blades?

Tags: tech, agile, jira

With the amount of time I spent with this particular beast I have to agree. It can be used well of course, but it’s designed in a way that makes it very hard to use properly at all.

https://ronjeffries.com/articles/021-01ff/jira-blades/

How to win at CORS - JakeArchibald.com

Tags: tech, http, cors

Very extensive post about CORS. This is fairly complete and shows how quickly it can become complicated.

https://jakearchibald.com/2021/cors/

Hexagonal Architecture in Java Simplified

Tags: tech, java, architecture

Simple illustration of that software architecture pattern in Java

https://huseyinbabal.com/2021/10/15/hexagonal-architecture-in-java-simplified/

ELF dynamic linking: a brief introduction

Tags: tech, linking, elf

Very nice introduction on the topic. This is a recommended read.

https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/blog/2021/10/18/#elf-dynamic-linking-intro

pyinstrument - pyinstrument 4.0.4 documentation

Tags: tech, python, profiling

Another profiler for Python which looks interesting.

https://pyinstrument.readthedocs.io/en/latest/home.html

Python stands to lose its GIL, and gain a lot of speed | InfoWorld

Tags: tech, python, multithreading

This could be a game changer for a future Python 4.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3637073/python-stands-to-lose-its-gil-and-gain-a-lot-of-speed.html

Tests aren’t enough: Case study after adding type hints to urllib3 — sethmlarson.dev

Tags: tech, python, type-systems, mypy

This explains quite well why I liked to have type information in my code bases. This also shows a few interesting bits of mypy use.

https://sethmlarson.dev/blog/2021-10-18/tests-arent-enough-case-study-after-adding-types-to-urllib3

Simple Product Management Tricks - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Tags: product-management, automation

Interesting tips for musing a bit in product management. I especially like the tip about playbooks instead of automation.

https://jacobian.org/2021/oct/20/simple-pm-tricks/

How to get useful answers to your questions

Tags: product-management, requirements

Very important skill indeed…

https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/10/21/how-to-get-useful-answers-to-your-questions/

Bye for now!