14-Aug-2024 Content of Interest

Software

Developers waste 8+ hours weekly on inefficiencies like technical debt (Milena Radivojević) Atlassian survey results overview.
The Human Condition (Mike Fisher) Interesting read: "The human condition is a fascinating paradox."
Think Better (Mike Loukides) "Creativity comes from the bottom up"
Against Names (Steve Klabnik) TIL about jj
When Your Boss Suddenly Reduces Your Scope (Dina Denham Smith, HBR) "avoid catastrophizing"
The Pep Effect (Mike Fisher) "shift towards valuing systemic thinking and team cohesion over individual prowess."
Primitive Obsession (Andrew Cairns) "Primitive Obsession is a code smell." So are mutable objects (says the FP guy).

Nudge | Non-invasive neuromodulation Ultrasound neuromodulation "has begun to produce promising results." Also see Nudge - Quintin Frerichs.

LinkedIn Is Not Having an Identity Crisis. Jobs Are. "logging into LinkedIn more out of habit than necessity"

Y’all are sleeping on HTTP/3 "HTTP/3 abandons TCP in favor of a channel-aware UDP-based protocol called QUIC." Yeah, it does seem important.
How I Use “AI” (Nicholas Carlini) It's a new world!
Legacy code with really good tests is still legacy code (Oren Eini) Yep!
“We ran out of columns” - The best, worst codebase "The database lives forever" 😀
The Product Model and Org Design (Marty Cagan) "does a transformation to the product model necessitate a reorg?" Spoiler: no.
Browsers, cookies and surfing the web: The quirky history of internet lingo (Erica Brozovsky)
Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?” (charity.wtf) Good read.

Raw intuitions about startups (Gordon Brander) #1: "Start with product and work backwards to technology"

TBM 304: Losing a Day a Week to Inefficiencies? (John Cutler) "Developers complain about DevEx a lot."
The end of the Everything Cloud (Forrest Brazeal) "undead zombies behind impressive-looking marketing pages" ❤️
Thinking Like an Architect (Gregor Hohpe) "Architects Make Everyone Else Smarter"
Why You Feel Underappreciated at Work (Tessa West) "There is a difference between high-visibility roles and status-granting roles"

2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Same old, same old, plus lots of AI questions.
Software Architecture in an AI World (Mike Loukides) Informative.
Top-Down Imperative Clojure Architectures (Thomas Cothran) FP vs. OOP. Also, TIL about with-redefs.

A new study using Fitbit data uncovers connections between sleep and disease "There are even quite a few individuals who tend to sneak in an afternoon nap" 👍

What CrowdStrike teaches us about risks & resilience (Om Malik) A lot is being written, but this is a well-reasoned (and short) high-level take.
Sears (Mathew Duggan) A little long, but an entertaining read nevertheless.
Why aren’t we better at this? (Michael Eaton) Both Agile and Waterfall are pretty bad.