Kind bookmarks
Recommended read: I was stuck on a side project for 5 years. Here’s how I finished it. https://cassandraxia.com/writing/shed.html
Recommended read: API Handyman | Handle API gateway and backend differences in API documentation with OpenAPI Specification https://apihandyman.io/handle-api-gateway-and-backend-differences-in-api-documentation-with-openapi-specification/
The .new
domains are pretty cool, and I am tempted to look at something like indieauth.new
or oauth.new
, especially to hook it into tokens-pls
Recommended read: .new - Google Registry https://whats.new/shortcuts/
A good read about how getting management buy-in is important to unblock being able to ship code - long delays to get work shipped (to customers) leads to so much inefficiency!
Recommended read: 3 Lines of Code Shouldn’t Take All Day https://devtails.xyz/3-lines-of-code-shouldnt-take-all-day
Recommended read: Five Anti-Patterns with Secrets in Java https://developer.okta.com/blog/2021/12/14/antipatterns-secrets-java
Recommended read: Professional maintainers: a wake-up call https://blog.filippo.io/professional-maintainers/
Recommended read: Ten years of experience, still failing phone screens https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/phone-screens-broken/?lobsters
Recommended read: Bring a More Inclusive Developer Strategy to APIs - The New Stack https://thenewstack.io/bring-a-more-inclusive-developer-strategy-to-apis/
Recommended read: Being the DRI of Your Career https://cate.blog/2021/09/20/being-the-dri-of-your-career/
Recommended read: Werner Vogel’s 6 Rules for Good API Design – The New Stack https://thenewstack.io/werner-vogels-6-rules-for-good-api-design/
Recommended read: Java JSON deserialization problems with the Jackson ObjectMapper | Snyk https://snyk.io/blog/java-json-deserialization-problems-jackson-objectmapper/
Recommended read: Scaling productivity on microservices at Lyft (Part 1) https://eng.lyft.com/scaling-productivity-on-microservices-at-lyft-part-1-a2f5d9a77813?gi=6271aeaeb3ac
Recommended read: Scaling productivity on microservices at Lyft (Part 2): Optimizing for fast local development https://eng.lyft.com/scaling-productivity-on-microservices-at-lyft-part-2-optimizing-for-fast-local-development-9f27a98b47ee?gi=46cb2a61f15f
Recommended read: Merge Queues with Bors https://kflansburg.com/posts/merge-queues/
Recommended read: What desktop Linux needs to succeed in the mainstream https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/05/What-desktop-Linux-needs.html
This is a really great idea - API gateways / ingress tooling utilising OpenAPI is much better than requiring duplication, and ensures that teams are building with API documentation first, but would be a barrier for those who need to backfill docs
Recommended read: An OpenAPI-first Ingress Controller for Kubernetes - Kusk Gateway - Kubeshop https://kubeshop.io/blog/configure-ingress-with-openapi
Recommended read: What are soft skills? Why are they called soft skills? Are they really incredibly hard behaviours? — Helen Scott https://www.helenjoscott.com/posts/stop-calling-them-soft-skills
Recommended read: Behind The Spotify Wrapped API Scenes https://den.dev/blog/spotify-wrapped/
Recommended read: How to use dig https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/12/04/how-to-use-dig/
Recommended read: 5 Signs It’s Time to Quit Your Job https://cate.blog/2021/11/29/5-signs-its-time-to-quit-your-job/
Recommended read: Acronyms Buster https://samuel-hoskin.github.io/CS-Acronyms/
Recommended read: Pair Programming - Jacob Kaplan-Moss https://jacobian.org/2021/nov/30/wst-pair-programming/
Recommended read: A vision for a social model of open source https://leaddev.com/agile-other-ways-working/vision-social-model-open-source
Oof, I feel this - especially "who do I WANT to be"
Recommended read: I am bad at resting https://tomnatt.blogspot.com/2021/11/i-am-bad-at-resting.html
Recommended read: Simple Things That Are Actually Hard: User Authentication - Bozho's tech blog https://techblog.bozho.net/simple-things-that-are-actually-hard-user-authentication/
Recommended read: The History of Command Palettes: How Typing Commands Became The Norm Again https://capiche.com/e/consumer-dev-tools-command-palette
Recommended read: Firefox is the Only Alternative https://batsov.com/articles/2021/11/28/firefox-is-the-only-alternative/
A fellow scientist, a geneticist from Stanford University, speculated in the comments that the virus was so different to the original Wuhan strain, Sars-Cov-2, it could be labelled “Sars-Cov-3” – “essentially restarting the pandemic”.
Recommended read: From patient zero to billions wiped off global shares, the inside story of how the Omicron variant emerged https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/omicron-variant-covid-inside-story-south-africa-1322562
Recommended read: Things I Wish I Knew When I Started as a Software Developer https://jianajavier.com/blog/developer-advice
An interesting read - I'm not quite sure about everything, but there's some good stuff in here, and it's good to have a fresh perspective
Recommended read: Successful Slack https://www.justingarrison.com/blog/2021-08-08-succesful-slack/
Recommended read: The Path of Madness — brandur.org https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/029-path-of-madness
Recommended read: CrudCrud - Instant CRUD REST API Endpoints https://crudcrud.com/
Recommended read: The 500 test — brandur.org https://brandur.org/fragments/the-500-test
Recommended read: Considerations for event APIs (versus webhooks) — brandur.org https://brandur.org/fragments/events-api
Recommended read: My Heroku Values — brandur.org https://brandur.org/heroku-values
Recommended read: Version Variants — brandur.org https://brandur.org/version-variants
Recommended read: HTTP API design: 204 "No content" mildly harmful — brandur.org https://brandur.org/fragments/http-api-204s
Recommended read: SOA and Service Stubs — brandur.org https://brandur.org/service-stubs
Recommended read: Developer Accessible APIs — brandur.org https://brandur.org/accessible-apis
Recommended read: Tracing Request IDs — brandur.org https://brandur.org/request-ids
Recommended read: The Snowflakes as Code antipattern https://infrastructure-as-code.com/book/2021/11/19/snowflakes-as-code.html
Recommended read: webhook.site - a tool for testing webhooks https://docs.webhook.site/
A very interesting read about physical and virtual security required to protect the keys to the castle
Recommended read: How we protect our most sensitive secrets from the most determined attackers https://monzo.com/blog/2021/11/18/protecting-our-most-sensitive-secrets/
Recommended read: ActiveSupport #as_json vs #to_json https://justincypret.com/blog/activesupport-as-json-vs-to-json
Recommended read: shell - What is the difference between the Bash operators [[ vs [ vs ( vs ((? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/306111/what-is-the-difference-between-the-bash-operators-vs-vs-vs
Recommended read: GitHub's commitment to npm ecosystem security | The GitHub Blog https://github.blog/2021-11-15-githubs-commitment-to-npm-ecosystem-security/
Recommended read: Java LTS - perspective of a library author https://emmanuelbernard.com/blog/2021/11/15/java-lts/