27-May-2024 Content of Interest

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System tests have failed (David Heinemeier Hansson) Reducing brittle system tests makes sense. Not so sure that manual testing is the best path though.

Are You Going To Wake Up From Cryosleep? (berci.mesko) Interesting stuff. Reality has the habit of catching up to sci-fi. Maybe this too someday?
Big Tech in Medtech: Is Apple Pressing Too Hard? (Amanda Pedersen) "Traditional medical device companies will have to become even more savvy than they are today about making friends with the likes of Apple."

Closed as unhelpful: an elegy for Stack Overflow (Forrest Brazeal) LLMs are taking over the world!
Ego in Leadership (Mike Fisher) "People want to follow leaders who have a healthy ego."
4 Common Types of Team Conflict — and How to Resolve Them (HBR) 20% of their time managing conflict!
Gene Kim on Unpacking Organizational Wiring (Darko Fabijan)
Measuring dev productivity (Eric Normand) Follow-up to the James Shore article.
James Shore: A Useful Productivity Measure?

Ship of Theseus (Mike Fisher) "organizations, firms, and companies are Ships of Theseus."
Why didn’t one of the big clouds buy HashiCorp? (Forrest Brazeal) Good industry perspective.
Observations of Leadership (Part One) (Hazel Weakly) lt;dr, but a good engineering leadership read nevertheless.
Pharo - Pharo 12 Released Fun Smalltalk environment. Also see: Glamorous Toolkit
Explaining Trunk Based Development (Mahesh Mallikarjunaiah) Seems like it should be straight forward, but it's not.

The Power of Questions (Mike Fisher) "mastering the art of critical inquiry"
The Value of Values (Eric Normand) "A value needs teeth."
4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way The don't-DRY advice (i.e. DO repeat yourself) is just a cautionary tale of over-abstraction.
Security, Maintainability, Velocity: Choose One (Tyler Treat) "The reality, however, is that these three priorities are competing with each other"
Language of Business (Mike Fisher) "it's about bridging the gap between technical expertise and business acumen"
6 Common Leadership Styles — and How to Decide Which to Use When (Rebecca Knight, HBR)