Bookmarks
These are articles and links that I’ve saved from around the web using Raindrop.io
Software is trying to change your habits. Make sure you agree with it. | Za
Have you ever gotten lost in a mall? It's not your fault. Malls are intentionally confusing, a sort of modern labyrinth. The idea is you'll get lost, see some random stuff you don't need, then spend money on said stuff.
How to Prioritize When There's Always More To Do
Advice for managing life's chaos and focusing on what's important
Organize Your Home: Declutter and Clean with Checklists for Every Room
Take back your space with check-lists for every room in your place
Self-care should result in more margin | Changelog
With constant change being our new normal these days, I cannot attest enough to the importance of implementing the habit of self-care. The biggest reason, aside from the sheer benefit of taking care of yourself, is the crucial by-product of margin that we gain. However, the chall
6 Rules That Are Guaranteed to Improve Your Productivity, Even if You Feel
In my work as a productivity coach, I supported hundreds of people to improve their daily workflow and get more done in less time. Whenever I talk about productivity, I have one goal: I want my…
How do you cut a monolith in half? — programming is terrible
It depends. The problem with distributed systems, is that no matter what the question is, the answer is inevitably ‘It Depends’. When you cut a larger service apart, where you cut depends on latency,...
From human dissection to product marketing | by Aqua Delaney | Humans of Xe
As a teen who loved health and fitness, sports psychology and physiology was an obvious career choice. Straight out of university, I landed a ‘dream’ contract with New Zealand Rugby and launched my…
Why data literacy is the key to future-proofing your career | by Kendra Van
Some years ago, I read a book that’s had a profound effect on how I look at careers and advise the people I mentor. That book is The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity by Scott…
Changing Lanes: How Lyft is Migrating 100 Frontend Microservices to Next.j
In 2019, Lyft’s frontend architecture needed a reckoning. We were growing quickly as a company, and new teams were creating new software systems daily. At that point in time, we were generating new…
The Architect’s Path (Part 2 - Implementation) - The Architect Elevator
Growing an architect is different from growing a system. This bookshelf will help.
How Events Will Fail You. Our catalog of situations encountered… | by Chris
Events have become a fixture of modern software solutions, whether it’s the no-longer-trendy Event Sourcing model or the also-blockchain-like but typically client-focused CRDT, discrete units of…
The ‘arctic fox’ model of software delivery | by Mark Rees | Humans of Xero
Recently, I celebrated my seven year anniversary of originally starting at Xero, and it got me thinking about what we’ve achieved in that time. Scaling from a startup to a global tech company in the…
How should we build the APIs of tomorrow? – Increment: APIs
A meditation on embracing physics, improving developer experience, and evolving the status quo.
The Observation Deck » Software: Immaculate, fetid and grimy
Once, long ago, there was an engineer who broke the operating system particularly badly. Now, if you’ve implemented important software for any serious length of time, you’ve seriously screwed up at least once – but this was notable for a few reasons. First, the change that the en
(Remote) Pairing 101 | ThoughtWorks
Remote working is not a new practice, but it’s also not the norm. That has changed during this pandemic. Many software delivery teams were forced to move from working together in a shared space to remote working, which has impacted how they collaborate. One of the practices we re
41 Powerful Journaling Exercises for Mind Expansion and Effective Behavior
Over the next 41 weeks, you have a chance to change your life. These journaling exercises use world-class expert knowledge to help you get there.
7 Cognitive Biases That Make Us Suck at Time Management
Our brains are hardwired to sabotage our productivity. Can we do anything about it?
How Frictionless Technology Is Making Us Miserable | Digital Trends
Frictionless experiences have long been a top priority for interface designers, but the war on friction has led to some unintended consequences
How to Centralize Your Tasks When You’re Using Too Many Apps
What to do when your productivity apps are making you less productive
A tale of webpage speed, or throwing away React
Back in 2011, I happened to get a job writing Backbone.js app. If you never did that, don’t. I was complaining about difficulties with composition left and right to [...]
Content delivery networks (CDNs)
This article provides a comprehensive overview of content delivery networks (CDNs). In addition, it explains how to choose, configure, and optimize a CDN setup.
Improve database performance with connection pooling - Stack Overflow Blog
Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling
Pixar's Rules of Storytelling were originally tweeted by Emma Coats, a Pixar Story Artist. Rule 1: You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.
Kubernetes 1.19: The future of traffic ingress and routing | Cloud Native C
Guest post originally published on eficode’s blog by Michael Vittrup Larsen, Consultant at eficode The Kubernetes community is giving up on Ingress and will…