IT You don’t need standup – Up until January I was a developer who was upset at how many meetings I had. Repeat yourself, do more than one thing, and rewrite everything – Following “Don’t Repeat Yourself” might lead you… Read More »ProLinks #41 – Do we need standups?, why to keep a changelog, how to make friends and more
IT Siren Real-Time Performance | Project Spotlight | Unreal Engine Tools – The who, what, where, when, and how of social media data cheat.sh – The only cheat sheet you need As Technologists, It’s Time That We Upgrade The Ethics… Read More »ProLinks #40 – Ultimate cheat sheat, winning culture, thinking in bets and lot more
IT How to take 7 years to ship a beta. – So how can you take 7 years to make your game? Here are some important tips and tricks for taking your sweet time. Counting People with Andrew Farah –… Read More »ProLinks #39 – How to take 7 years to ship a beta, counting people, spread of fake news and more
IT Microsoft calls for facial recognition technology rules given ‘potential for abuse’ – President Brad Smith warns authorities might track, investigate or arrest people based on flawed evidence. Source: Wikimedia They Watched Us With Webcams And Rewrote Our Code! – … Read More »ProLinks #38 – About Microsoft calling for regulation, a bull with most descendents and more
IT I Don’t Believe in Full-Stack Engineering – Of all the engineers I’ve met over the years only one has come close to what that title, full-stack engineer, implies: the ability to easily navigate the back-end and front-end with a… Read More »ProLinks #37 – Critique of full-stack engineering, rain in the Data Centre and more
IT Engineering Student Designs a “Mobile Airbag” that Deploys When your Device is Dropped – The German Society for Mechatronics recently awarded outstanding work in the field of mechatronics. Why I left my job at Google (as a software engineer)… Read More »ProLinks #36
IT Ridiculously Insecure Smart Lock – Regarding the third flaw, the manufacturer has responded that “…the lock is invincible to the people who do not have a screwdriver.” Why Skylake CPUs Are Sometimes 50% Slower – How Intel Has Broken… Read More »ProLinks #35
IT The Manager Who Knew Everything – Have you ever worked for/with a manager that knows everything about everything? You know the sort; no matter what the issue, they stubbornly have an answer. Microservices Maturity Quiz – Below, you have… Read More »ProLinks #34
IT How to Work With Software Engineers – How to Work With Software Engineers When I launch my unit tests The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2018 – In the beginning of 2018 we surveyed 6,000 developers to identify the… Read More »ProLinks #33
IT Patterns of Effective Teams – Some teams are orders of magnitude more effective than others, turning around business solutions in days or even hours. Apache Kafka vs RabbitMQ – I will be breaking down the differences between Apache Kafka… Read More »ProLinks #32