Blogs

I’m back from Akademy, it was a blast I was glad to be there and meet people in person again. Now let’s go for my web review for the week 2022-40.

TikTok Tracks You Across the Web, Even If You Don’t Use App - Consumer Reports

Tags: tech, social-media, surveillance, attention-economy

The most addictive and also tracking you everywhere it can (unsurprisingly). Toxicity at its highest.

https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics-computers/privacy/tiktok-tracks-you-across-the-web-even-if-you-dont-use-app-a4383537813/

A multi-language bindings generator for rust

Tags: tech, rust, bindings

This should hopefully ease the pain of mixing Rust with other languages.

https://github.com/mozilla/uniffi-rs

Pull Rust introductory support from Kees Cook

Tags: tech, linux, kernel, rust

This is definitely a big deal both for the kernel and for Rust.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8aebac82933ff1a7c8eede18cab11e1115e2062b

A curated collection of diagramming tools used by software engineering teams

Tags: tech, architecture, diagrams

A good list of tools for making diagrams in various situations.

https://github.com/shubhamgrg04/awesome-diagramming

Laurence Tratt: UML: My Part in its Downfall

Tags: tech, architecture, design, uml, history

Very interesting post about the history of UML and the MDA approach. Clearly MDA and UML v2 was the beginning of the end for UML. That’s too bad, I find UML still useful for sketching and communication between humans.

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2022/uml_my_part_in_its_downfall.html

Monday’s Engineering - Personal Development Plan

Tags: tech, hr, management, career

Interesting career ladder example. I especially like the various dimensions they focus on.

https://growth.monday.com/homepage/rd/engineering/?p=mr0-mr1-mr2-mr3-tr0-tr1-tr2-&f=no

Staff engineer archetypes. | Irrational Exuberance

Tags: tech, management, tech-lead, team

Interesting little taxonomy of staff engineer roles. This can help to know from where you’re talking in your organization.

https://lethain.com/staff-engineer-archetypes/

First make the change easy, then make the easy change

Tags: tech, life, xp, refactoring

Good point, this little wisdom from Kent Beck goes further than just code and refactoring.

https://www.adamtal.me/2019/05/first-make-the-change-easy-then-make-the-easy-change

An end to doomerism - Big Think

Tags: life, philosophy

Although I disagree with some of the examples she summons, I think she indeed has a point.

https://bigthink.com/progress/pessimism-is-a-barrier-to-progress/

Bye for now!