Blogs

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2022-44.


The bird, the billionaire and the precipice. – affordance.info

Tags: tech, twitter, attention-economy

Spot on analysis. What could Musk do with Twitter? Why? Several theories but clearly this will impact and distort even more the information landscape.

https://affordance.framasoft.org/2022/10/the-bird-the-billionaire-and-the-precipice/


The SAFe Delusion – Information for decision-makers considering the SAFe framework

Tags: tech, agile, criticism, safe

Finally out of Google Docs it seems. Better version for sharing around. Still an interesting list of case studies and opinions around SAFe. I learned a few things, I didn’t realize it’s creation was so disconnected from the pre-existing agile community. It all seems to confirm my opinion that it’s better to stay away from it though. The few organizations I know of which use it are clearly very much in a command and control mode. This is going backwards.

https://safedelusion.com/


Phylum Discovers Dozens More PyPI Packages Attempting to Deliver W4SP Stealer in Ongoing Supply-Chain Attack

Tags: tech, python, security, supply-chain

OK, this is a weird but real supply chain attack on going in the Python ecosystem.

https://blog.phylum.io/phylum-discovers-dozens-more-pypi-packages-attempting-to-deliver-w4sp-stealer-in-ongoing-supply-chain-attack


Plasma 5.26 review - Pretty reasonable

Tags: tech, kde

Always pleasant to see a nice and positive review!

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/plasma-5-26-review.html


The type system is a programmer’s best friend

Tags: tech, programming, safety, type-systems

Definitely this! It’s important to model properly your domain and leverage smart value types everywhere it makes sense. This can prevent quite a few different types of bugs.

https://dusted.codes/the-type-system-is-a-programmers-best-friend


Early speed optimizations aren’t premature

Tags: tech, programming, optimization, performance

Good reminder that “premature” doesn’t mean “early”. Poor Knuth is so often badly quoted in the context of optimization that it’s really sad. The number of times I see “early pessimisation” on the pretense of avoiding “premature optimization”. Such a waste…

https://pythonspeed.com/articles/premature-optimization/


Good old-fashioned code optimization never goes out of style

Tags: tech, programming, optimization

What the title said, there’s nothing fancy about optimizations. It’s mostly well known knowledge, doesn’t change much over time or on different stacks… still it’s very satisfying.

https://pythonspeed.com/articles/old-fashioned-software-optimized/


How to communicate effectively as a developer

Tags: tech, communication, writing

If you like remote work, then you need to make sure your written communication is good. There’s a handful of proper guidelines in this paper. Good reminders.

https://www.karlsutt.com/articles/communicating-effectively-as-a-developer/



Bye for now!