12-Jul-2024 Content of Interest

Med Dev

TDD is Not Hill Climbing (Kent Beck) IMO, analogies generally suck. Best to stay away all together.
Codeium: The Best Github Copilot Alternative (Ken-Anele Marvel) "Codeium’s Individual plan is entirely free and remains so indefinitely."
Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships (Engineer’s Codex) "The actionable tip here is to start with the data."
With Nothing to Do (Thorsten Ball) "but what I’ll never forget is what it felt like having nothing to do."
The Software Crisis (Wryl) "Relying on towering, monolithic structures sprayed with endless coats of paint cannot last."
There’s plenty of room at the Top: What will drive computer performance after Moore’s law? "During the post-Moore era, it will become ever more important to make code run fast and, in particular, to tailor it to the hardware on which it runs."
Against Innovation Tokens (Glyph Lefkowitz) "When selecting a technology, you should consider its ease of operation /more/ than its ease of development."
Eponymous Laws (Mike Fisher)

No One Needs Teachers Anymore (Preslav) "What kids need instead, are mentors and coaches who foster critical thinking."

Understanding Pure Domain Modelling: Bridging the Gap Between Existing Systems and the Real Domain (Bart Wullems) The challenges of "creating a conceptual model of the domain that is as close to reality as possible"
Eight versions of UUID and when to use them TIL something new too.
A Eulogy for DevOps (Mathew Duggan) "Platform Engineering is not a magical solution to the problem"
Improving software architecture through – murder (Marko Crnjanski) "Murder boards are not code reviews"

Zero Budget Big Dreams: Starting a Tech Startup from Scratch (Uma Victor)
Productivity is Messing Around and Having Fun (Holly Cummins) "lines of code" is not a good productivity metric for people, or machines
Ruby: a great language for shell scripts (Lucas Seiki Oshiro)
How Cache Memory Works (Gabriel G. Cunha) Hard-core CPU/RAM details that most of us will never need. Fun tl;dr nevertheless.

Pooping on the Moon Is a Messy Business (Becky Ferreira) Can't escape being human, even in space.
What Came Before the Big Bang? (Steve Nadis) Mathematical descriptions of the "real" world are somehow fascinating and frustrating at the same time.

The New Realities of AI Security Architecture (Liam Crilly) "AI security is different."
Mastering Change Management (Mike Fisher) The only thing you can depend on is change.
This is what software development looks like now (Forrest Brazeal) Love the cartoons.
How to create software quality. (Will Larson)
How to be the best programmer, according to Daniel Terhorst-North (Antonija Bilic Arar)
Experts vs. Imitators (Shane Parrish) "Not everyone who claims to be an expert is."