2023-kw46.md

Log calendar week 46 / 2023

Input

• How I Motivate Myself to Write

• Becoming a Better Writer as a Software Engineer

• Companies Using RFCs or Design Docs and Examples of These

• What Agile Really Means

• How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum

• Is Critical Thinking the Most Important Skill for Software Engineers?

• Advice to Myself When Starting Out as a Software Developer

• Asked to do something illegal at work? Here’s what these software engineers did

• Can You Really Measure Individual Developer Productivity? - Ask the EM

• Data Structures & Algorithms I Used Working at Tech Companies

• Getting Into the Zone with a Single Pomodoro

• Good Code Reviews, Better Code Reviews

• How Microsoft does Quality Assurance (QA)

• How to Lead a Project - as a Software Engineer

• Resiliency in Distributed Systems

• Shipping to Production

• Software Architecture is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design is Underrated

• Stretching, Executing, Coasting - and Pacing Yourself to Avoid Burnout

• Surprising Things About Working at Well-Known Tech Unicorns

• The Pyramid of Unit Testing Benefits

• Undervalued Software Engineering Skills: Writing Well

• What is Data Engineering?

• What is Data Engineering: Part 2

• Yes, You Should Estimate Software Projects

• Dependencies Are the Death of Value Delivery

• Wann ist es endlich fertig? Wie du die Frage in Softwareprojekten nicht pauschal, sondern professionell beantwortest

• The Illusion of Velocity

• Scrum Is Not the Point

• Are the mechanics of Scrum its own worst enemy?

• The Power of Agile Mindset in Retrospectives

• Stop! Stop hiring Scrum Masters!

• Microsoft briefly blocked employees from using ChatGPT over security concerns ➡️ to risky for data and security by Microsoft but fine for Microsoft users my sense of humour

• Generating Code without Generating Technical Debt?

• Understanding Git: The history and internals

• 📝 Go modules and the domain expiry problem

• GitHub Actions are a Problem

• Write Clean Code to Reduce Cognitive Load

• Programmers’ Nightmare: Best Practices For Geography, Time & Currency

Reminder, refresher and TIls of the week

number of changed lines

diff -y --suppress-common-lines file1 file2 | wc -l

feed ripgrep output to delta

rg --json PATTERN | delta

delta side by side

delta -s file1 file2

delta is a a syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output