RIF Notes Series Finale

“Things that can’t go on forever don’t” – Stein’s Law

This will prove to be the most shocking episode ever, as it will be the last of the Reading is Fundamental series.

  1. Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals
  2. Has the Pandemic Transformed the Office Forever? - What’s an office for? Is it a place for newbies to learn from experienced colleagues? A way for bosses to oversee shirkers? A platform for collaboration? A source of friends and social life? A respite from the family? A reason to leave the house?
  3. Gab Has Been Breached
  4. #NoAccountability
  5. Experience Reports: Before and After Shape Up
  6. Clean Coders Planning Poker by Micah Martin
  7. BeckDesignRules
  8. Verica - Security Chaos Engineering Report
  9. Why I Barely Mention Velocity Anymore
  10. America's Most Hated Office Jargon
  11. Russell L Ackoff From Mechanistic to Systemic thinking

 

Left over quotes

  1. “We are often more frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.” – Seneca
  2. "If it's this complicated for Netflix, who essentially do one thing, imagine how it is for a major bank". @cote
  3. “There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult” -- C.A.R. Hoare
  4. “80/15/5: spend 80% of your time on guaranteed impact, 15% on big risk/big reward, and 5% on crazy stuff with no foreseeable payoff” - Kent Beck
  5. “The man who can do the average thing when all those around him are going crazy.” Napoleon’s definition of a military genius:
  6. “Software development is a game of insight, and insight comes to the prepared, rested, relaxed mind.” ― @KentBeck
  7. “Developers are drawn to complexity like moths to a flame—frequently with the same result.” -- Neal Ford.
  8. "Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows." -- Werner Heisenberg
  9. “The older I get, the more I realize the biggest problem to solve in tech is to get people to stop making things harder than they have to be.” Chad Fowler
  10. “The goal of software design is to create chunks or slices that fit into a human mind. The software keeps growing but the human mind maxes out, so we have to keep chunking and slicing differently if we want to keep making changes.”- Kent Beck
  11. “Reaching for microservices is like writing convoluted code because a performance bottleneck demands it. It’s not that you WANT to devolve your code to please the performance alter, but that you accept that you must. So to do this without being forced to? Self-flagellation." to "Right. Microservices are a technical debt that you accept because the gained organizational simplicity is worth it in very large companies." –DHH
  12. "This is why microservices can make sense for large companies with many, separate, and isolated teams. And why it just about never makes any sense for small companies where teams can grasp the entire application."
  13. "If your company is producing software too slowly, hiring more "programming talent" will probably not speed you up in any significant way. Instead, remove waste from your existing system. It's way more cost effective. Adding people makes sense only if there's no waste." – Allan Holub
  14. "I was burned out - but not from overwork - from underpurpose." dhh
  15. "Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential."

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