Tags: web-review, tdd, biology, economics, tests, microsoft, management, docker, architecture, surveillance, command-line, framasoft, tech, ai, leadership, science, psychology, burnout, problem-solving, optimization, politics, design, project-management, linguistics, funny, business, genomics, failure, developer-experience, tools, work, machine-learning, chroot, strategy, java, programming
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2022-45.
Tags: tech, programming, ai, machine-learning
Very early days for research on this topic and the sample is rather small still. That said the results are interesting, there seems to have a few biases inherent to the use of such an assistant, there’s also clearly a link between the AI agency and the quality of what gets produced. We’ll see if those result holds to larger studies.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.03622.pdf
Tags: tech, microsoft, surveillance
Indeed in the context of the feature it kind of make sense… still, where was the consent or the warning to the user?
https://rogermexico.bearblog.dev/microsoft-is-phoning-home-the-content-of-your-powerpoint-slides/
Tags: tech, framasoft
An important project in my opinion, glad to see it’s moving forward at a nice pace.
https://framablog.org/2022/11/08/mobilizon-v3-find-events-and-groups-throughout-the-fediverse/
Tags: tech, tools, command-line
OK, that looks like shell history on steroids. Definitely something I will try out.
https://github.com/ddworken/hishtory
Tags: tech, docker, chroot
A good reminder of what’s truly at the root of the container idea.
https://earthly.dev/blog/chroot/
Tags: tech, tests, tdd, design
Indeed, I encounter that same idea in some people. I’m unsure where it comes from, it feels like reading and extrapolating from something more reasonable (it’s like the “one test per line” I sometimes hear about). Bad idea indeed, it’s fine to have several assertions, it’s probably often required to avoid complexity explosion in your tests. This of course doesn’t mean your test should become unfocused.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/11/03/multiple-assertions-per-test-are-fine/
Tags: tech, developer-experience
Very important topic. Nice to see more such teams appearing and thinking now focusing on how to structure them.
https://leaddev.com/productivity-eng-velocity/what-developer-experience-team
Tags: tech, architecture, funny, java
OK, this is funny. Clear over-engineering non sense for the sake of it.
https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition
Tags: business, management, leadership, strategy
Interesting framework for sustaining a strategic train of thoughts for the long term. This can’t be a fix thing, it needs to live and breather which this approach seems to foster.
https://www.lenareinhard.com/articles/how-to-lead-strategically-every-day
Tags: business, strategy
Nice succinct form to present a strategy.
https://medium.com/@sheacole08/how-to-present-a-strategy-in-6-slides-1c4df52ca23
Tags: tech, project-management, failure
Interesting story on how power plays can sometimes completely hide the fate of a project until it’s too late. Definitely a cautionary tale.
https://doomedprojects.com/post/it-would-be-career-limiting
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, optimization, science, politics, economics
Interesting food for thought. Not necessarily easy to see it used in as many fields as the article claims. Maybe a bit too much on the techno solutionist side at times. Still, that sounds like an interesting guideline and path to explore.
https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2022/11/06/strong-Goodhart.html
Tags: management, business, work, burnout
Interesting take on burnout as an organizational phenomenon and the consequences. This is not simply about the amount of work.
https://writing.pupius.co.uk/burned-out-its-not-you-869ecce65270
Tags: psychology, linguistics, problem-solving
Indeed, be careful when using “just”. It’s often doing more harm than anything.
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/11/07/Just-Dont
Tags: genomics, biology, science
Oh that looks really cool… will need quite some time to go through this though.
Bye for now!