This week’s blog roundup dives into a wealth of topics for the curious and forward-thinking minds. From exploring why developers aren’t shipping faster, to the principles of calm companies over frenzied ones, and the under-discussed importance of mental health in software engineering. We’re also touching on insights into developer productivity, the nuanced approach to identifying ‘root causes’ in tech incidents, and the intriguing use of facial recognition in image glitching. Plus, don’t miss out on reviving your productivity with a comprehensive workshop, leadership lessons from decades ago, the resurgence of print magazines, understanding the waning interest in news among under-35s, and cutting-edge perspectives on AI’s future role in our lives. Join me on this knowledge journey!
- I asked 100 devs why they aren’t shipping faster. Here’s what I learned: The only developer tool that truly understands your codebase.
- Embrace Silence: Forter’s technical blog, writing on security, performance, engineering culture, and more.
- We need more calm companies: Calm companies are profitable, value freedom, have a purpose, and improve the team’s lives. Frenzied companies are crisis-driven.
- Measuring Developer Productivity via Humans: Organizations should prioritize measuring developer productivity using data from humans, rather than data from systems.
- What we talk about when we talk about ‘root cause’: Instead of finding the ‘root cause’ to incidents and issues, @allspaw says it’s more accurate to try and break down what created the ‘perfect storm’:
- lenssort: Using facial recognition and pixelsorting on images to create glitched, Snapchat-like lenses.
- Mental Health in Software Engineering: I want to talk about something we don’t discuss enough in our field: the mental health of software engineers, especially those of us who’ve taken on the
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- Thread by @jevering on Thread Reader App: @jevering: 1/ “Leadership is a repeatable skill, not an art.” Over 25 years ago, I attended a leadership session at Netscape, run by Jim Barksdale. It was a single hour that profoundly impacted my career. 2/ I……
- Magazines make a comeback: Nylon will print its first physical magazine since 2017.
- How under-35s’ interest in news has collapsed and what we can do about it: In the UK, interest in news among all adults has declined by a quarter since 2013, while it has halved for under-35s.
- “The death of media is greatly exaggerated”: Insights from media maven Simon Owens: Journalist Simon Owens’s Media Industry Newsletter is compulsory reading for anyone trying to navigate the ever-changing, challenging world of digital
- Nicole Greene: Looking forward with AI: Gartner’s AI expert explains how search generative experience will change everything and why chatbots are the next frontier in advertising