Tags: web-review, management, interviews, tech, django, data, settings, cto, science, command-line, agile, tech-lead, rust, accessibility, complexity, rss, career, security, sql, python, networking, dependencies, gpu, frontend, system, blog, databases, xp, attention-economy, architecture, hr, standard, craftsmanship, javascript, web, tools, project-management, type-systems, hiring, postgresql, microsoft, browser, history, programming, css
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2023-39.
Tags: tech, web, data, attention-economy
This is a good way to manage your website. I do the same regarding my blog, I don’t do any analytics etc.
https://manuelmoreale.com/i-don-t-want-your-data
Tags: tech, science
Lots of good answers in there… It provodes plenty of rabbit holes to follow.
https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/53343/recent-advances-in-computer-science-since-2010
Tags: tech, browser, gpu, security, gpu
Interesting new side-channel attack. A bit mind boggling to be honest. Only one browser seems affected so far (since it’s Chrome probably most of its variants are affected as well).
https://www.hertzbleed.com/gpu.zip/
Tags: tech, rust, microsoft, system
Another system where it becomes easier to make drivers in Rust.
https://github.com/microsoft/windows-drivers-rs
Tags: tech, settings, standard
Definitely this, use standard locations as much as possible. We can tame the mess of dotfiles in user homes.
https://dotfiles-matter.click/
Tags: tech, javascript, history
Interesting light shed on Javascript early history.
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/did-brendan-eich-really-make-javascript-in-10-days/
Tags: tech, python, type-systems
Nice improvements coming to the Python typing system. Especially interesting in the case of kwargs.
https://realpython.com/python312-typing/
Tags: tech, programming, craftsmanship
Since we often still see in the wild code with deep nesting due to edge cases handling, it looks like this advice is still very relevant.
https://preslav.me/2023/09/22/ditch-that-else/
Tags: tech, django, databases
This is more manual work of course but too often forgotten. This way you get easier database migrations in complex environments though.
https://fly.io/django-beats/smooth-database-changes-in-blue-green-deployments/
Tags: tech, architecture, dependencies, complexity
Maybe you don’t need to pull even more dependencies. Think of the operational costs and the complexity.
https://adriano.fyi/posts/2023-09-24-choose-postgres-queue-technology/
Tags: tech, databases, postgresql, sql
Good primer about database transactions and the issues you might run with when using them.
https://dineshgowda.com/posts/demystifying-database-transcations/
Tags: tech, blog, rss
Interesting tidbit of the RSS standard. Probably worth putting such GUIDs early on.
https://theorangeone.net/posts/rss-guids/
Tags: tech, tools, command-line, networking
Know your tools. Those are useful to check network uses.
https://raduzaharia.medium.com/network-health-overview-with-mtr-ss-lsof-and-iperf3-8d0d2d191781
Tags: tech, web, accessibility, frontend, css
This is an interesting use of the accessibility directive for better styling in web frontend code.
https://benmyers.dev/blog/semantic-selectors/
Tags: tech, management, project-management, xp, agile
Lots of food for thought in here. I really appreciate how Kent Beck’s thinking keeps evolving. This Explore, Expand, Extract curve is indeed a good way to frame things. It is a good base to know what to put in place or not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WazqgfsO_kY
Tags: tech, management, tech-lead
This is indeed an interesting scale to keep in mind. Teams shouldn’t get too big, or too small.
https://www.theengineeringmanager.com/qa/how-many-direct-reports-should-a-manager-have/
Tags: tech, career, cto, management
Ever wondered what the job of CTO encompasses? This article does a good job at it. It’s especially nice that it’s split based on company size. Indeed, the role can change dramatically depending on how big an organization is.
https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/what-cto-does/
Tags: hr, hiring, interviews
Plenty of sound advices for the written part of an application.
https://benhoyt.com/writings/how-to-apply/
Bye for now!