21-Dec-2023 Content of Interest

Med Dev

7 Misconceptions About Microfrontend (Temitope Oyedele) "Microfrontends offer enhanced flexibility, improved scalability, and streamlined development processes."
Advice for new software devs who’ve read all those other advice essays (crstry) Good read for any software developer.
Is “Wiring the Winning Organization” a book for you? Read my five takeaways and decide for yourself. (Richard Seroter) The older Gene Kim books aren't bad.
How Meta built the infrastructure for Threads (Laine Campbell, Chunqiang (CQ) Tang) Always interesting to read about these global-scale solutions.
Technical Debt is not real (JoelMcCracken) "It’s a metaphor, a way of thinking about the accumulated consequences of past decisions and shortcuts." That doesn't mean it's not real!
Implications of the failure of the Adobe-Figma deal. (Om Malik) "The innovation ecosystem depends on sustained outcomes — a positive outcome of even one in a hundred startups keeps the innovation engine chugging along."
Architecture Decision Records (ADR): Enhancing Software Development

Why hasn’t LinkedIn moved to Azure? (Tom Krazit)
Simple sabotage for software Tips "to destroy productivity for as long as you can without getting caught."

TDD Isn’t Design (Kent Beck)
9 reasons SQL has got to go SQL is the cockroach of data. It will survive anything!
Hanukkah of Data 2023/5784 (hwayne) Jewish Advent of Code
Simplicity is better than complexity (carlana) "Complexity just happens and its costs are literally exponential."
Don’t make Apache Kafka be your database "Kafka is complementary to your database, but should not be your database."

How Often Should We Sharpen Our Tools? (ltratt) Now you should try Emacs!
You (probably) don’t need DateTime (scorpil) TL;DR Only to remind me that working with date/time is hard.
Advent of Code 2023 (garritfra) I'm still working on 2022 puzzles!
I Fight For The Users (Jeff Atwood) "I urge you, all of you, to disavow Twitter and never look at it again."

Paper: You Want My Password or a Dead Patient? (Fred Hebert) "endemic circumvention of password-based auth" Yikes!

Coding in the Shadows: Hidden Gems of Lisp, Clojure, and friends (Adam Schmideg) "Lisp just clicked with me." Ditto.
What developers should know from the OpenAI saga "3 key takeaways: a multi-model strategy's necessity, emerging AI infra, LLMs as abstractions."
Dependency rejection (amontalenti) DI: "programmers fretted about a future that usually never arrived" and "meta-distraction". Valid points, but as always, it depends on the situation.
Why “API-first” might not be a good idea (Stefan Tilkov) 46 minute talk. Again, one size does not fit all.
How to Build a Google Chrome Extension in 6 Steps Using ChatGPT (Bradley Owen Moodley) Sometime the urge surfaces, but then quickly subsides. Reference for scratching the future itch.