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On Gaming …
- The cost of games – Raph’s Website
Lots of people have made the observation that in terms of raw purchasing power, players pay around half of what they used to in the 80s.
- Confessions of an Unreal Engine 4 Engineering Firefighter – Allar’s Blog
Engineering is sometimes the most asinine and painful thing you can do, but those who love it understand the feeling of solving a problem and having something Just Work.
- The Existential Terror of Battle Royale – Jeff Atwood
Battle Royale is not the game mode we wanted, it’s not the game mode we needed, it’s the game mode we all deserve. And the best part is, when we’re done playing, we can turn it off.
- How to survive in Fortnite if you’re old and slow | Keith Stuart, The Guardian
If you’re thinking of dipping your toe in, here are 13 tips to get you started.
- Elite: Dangerous — A Comprehensive Beginner’s Guide
Let’s be honest, Elite: Dangerous (ED) doesn’t exactly go out of its way to explain things to players.
- World of Warcraft perfectly predicted our coronavirus panic – Amit Katwala, WIRED UK
An accidental pandemic in the online game offers a valuable insight into the way people are behaving during the coronavirus crisis.
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On Covid-19 induced work from home conditions …
- Work in the Time of Corona – Alice Goldfuss
As someone who has worked remotely for multiple companies, in different setups, I wanted to offer some assurances and tips for maintaining your mental health while adjusting to this new life.
- How To Work From Home | You’ve Been Haacked
So now that you finally have the opportunity to work from home, don’t blow it! Working from home is a skill.
- Managing Remote Teams – A Crash Course – Andreas Klinger
Remote work is the logical evolution of digital work. And the best-practices of remote teams are often learnings for all digital knowledge work teams.
- Creating predictability and stability in times of rapid change | Lara Hogan
So let’s talk about what we can do for ourselves, and for those around us, to help address those core needs.
- Psychologische Sicherheit in unsicheren Zeiten – Michael May, Mayflower Blog
Unternehmen haben gegenüber ihren Mitarbeitern eine Fürsorgepflicht, die in der Regel durch die Führungskräfte gelebt wird. Ich hoffe, deine Firma hat die nötigen Schritte eingeleitet und wartet nicht, bis die Einschläge noch näher kommen.
- Diese Form von Home Office ist: alles andere als normal! – Sabine Wojcieszak, getNext IT
Die Situation, in der sich viele Unternehmen und auch viele unserer Kunden gerade befinden hat, wenig mit dem zu tun, was eigentlich unter verteiltem Arbeiten oder Home Office verstanden wird. Und es hat noch weniger mit New Work und der Motivation dahinter zu tun.
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On teams, agile methods, and remote work …
- How to Deal with Difficult People on Software Projects – Neil on Software
48 personalities that cause software development projects to fail.
- Why companies are still designing open plan offices – Katharine Schwab, Fast Company
First, you tear down the walls and dispense with the soulless cubicles. Then you put everyone at long tables, shoulder to shoulder, so that they can talk more easily.
- Why Enterprise Agile Teams Fail – Sam McAfee
No, you’re not crazy for trying this.
- Asynchronous Communication: The Real Reason Remote Workers Are More Productive – Amir Salihefendic
Study after study after study into remote work has made one thing clear: Remote workers are more productive than their office-bound counterparts. What’s not entirely clear is why.
- Software Sprawl, The Golden Path, and Scaling Teams With Agency – charity.wtf
Recently you saw something terrifying that you cannot unsee: your company is using all the languages, all the environments, all the databases, all the build tools. Shit!!! Your ops team is in full revolt and you can’t really blame them.
- How to run a Futurespective | Liz Keogh, lunivore
Futurespectives, like Retrospectives, look back at the past… from the future! I find them very useful when there isn’t much to retrospect on: at the start of a project or initiative.
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On art, design, and craftmanship …
- New Berlin rapid transit route map – Pasha Omelekhin
A transit map should be simple, comfortable, and nice-looking, designed with loving care and for people. It should attract tourists to the city and have reasons to make residents enjoy it. Berlin has received such a map.
- Map of the Literature II – Martin Vargic
The Map of the Literature is a truly gargantuan visualization of the 5000 years of literary masters and their works, showing how the different literary genres sprouted, branched and eventually evolved to their modern state.
- Apple’s HQ, Ruskin, Gothic Architecture, and Agile – Ian Miell
Once you start thinking about how building encourages or discourages a means of living compatible with a human, creative and dynamic life, then you start to see it everywhere.
- wenn die leute wissen, wie würste gemacht werden … – wirres.net
mittlerweile habe ich sogar meine zweifel, ob es sowas wie talent überhaupt gibt und ob wir talent als das wahrnehmen, was eigentlich das ergebnis von enorm viel übung, oder genauer vom festbeissen und manische verfolgen einer sache, einer fähigkeit, eines ziels ist.
- Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue – Andy Baio
Kind of Bloop is a chiptune tribute to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue, a track-by-track 8-bit reinterpretation of the bestselling jazz album of all time.
- Peak Music – anmut und demut
Ich schenk‘ mir dann mal einen Single Malt ein.
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On crypto and security …
- Cryptographic Right Answers – Latacora
You should keep things simple and conventional and easy to analyze; ‘boring’, as the Google TLS people would say.
- The PGP Problem – Latacora
Serious cryptographers have largely given up on PGP and don’t spend much time publishing on it anymore (with a notable exception). Well-understood problems in PGP have gone unaddressed for over a decade because of this.
- The New Illustrated TLS Connection – Michael Driscoll
A revised edition in which we dissect the new manner of secure and authenticated data exchange, the TLS 1.3 cryptographic protocol.
- Curl to shell isn’t so bad – Martin Tournoij
[It] is a very direct way to run code from the internet, whereas the other methods are running code from the internet, but with extra steps. It may ‘feel’ different, but in reality it’s just the same.
- Why Don’t People Use Formal Methods? – Hillel Wayne
Verifying code is a hard problem. More and more people are doing it, though, as theorem provers and SMT solvers get more sophisticated. It will probably remain a specialist thing for the foreseeable future.
- Running servers (and services) well is not trivial – Chris Siebenmann
These days, it’s often relatively easy to ‘just set up a server’ or a service, especially if you already work in the cloud. Spin up a VM or a Docker image, install some stuff, done, right? Well, not if you want this to be reliable infrastructure.
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On too big to fail tech …
- How big tech is dragging us towards the next financial crash, Rana Foroohar, The Guardian
Like the big banks, big tech uses its lobbying muscle to avoid regulation, and thinks it should play by different rules. And like the banks, it could be about to wreak financial havoc on us all.
- Absolute scale corrupts absolutely – apenwarr
The Internet has gotten too big.
- Silicon Valley Techies Still Think They’re the Good Guys. They’re Not. | Erin Griffith, WIRED
Will anyone ever write another positive story about a tech startup? I said probably not.
- How Evil Is Tech? – David Brooks, The New York Times
Some now believe tech is like the tobacco industry — corporations that make billions of dollars peddling a destructive addiction.
- Nothing Fails Like Success – Jeffrey Zeldman, A List Apart
Buying something you can’t afford, and borrowing from organizations that don’t have your (or your customers’) best interest at heart, is the business plan of most internet startups.
- How billions vanish into the black hole that is the security industry, Dimitri Tokmetzis and Maaike Goslinga, The Correspondent
The [EU] Commission has been trying to boost the security industry for ten years now, and nearly €2 billion has already been funneled into security research.
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some politics after non-Brexit day …
- The paranoid fantasy behind Brexit, Fintan O’Toole, The Guardian
In the imperial imagination, there are only two states: dominant and submissive, coloniser and colonised. This dualism lingers. If England is not an imperial power, it must be the only other thing it can be: a colony.
- Why we stopped trusting elites, William Davies, The Guardian
The notion that public figures and professionals are basically trustworthy has been integral to the health of representative democracies. After all, the very core of liberal democracy is the idea that a small group of people – politicians – can represent millions of others.
- Die Politik ist bürgerverdrossen – Indiskretion Ehrensache
Die Bürgergesellschaft wird als nicht zeitgemäß empfunden – allein Berufspolitiker verstünden die Welt des Jahres 2019 noch. […] Zusammengefasst: Die Berufspolitiker möchten beim Wegregieren nicht belästigt werden.
- Die haben das Internet nicht verstanden? Ich denke, doch.
Meine These zur neuen Urheberrechtsgesetzgebung und deren Artikel 11 und 13 ist ja, dass die gesamte Novelle vor allem ein Versuch ist, das Internet so umzugestalten, dass es zu einem, – sagen wir mal – konservativerem Verständnis davon, wie Medien funktionieren, passt.
- Über Zugfahren in Europa
Aber mit der Bahn über eine längere Strecke in ein anderes, europäisches Land zu reisen, in eine Stadt abseits der paar Metropolen, die mit dem Railteam erreichbar sind? Das kann ich niemandem empfehlen, der nicht vollkommen schmerzgeil und mit einem dicken Notfallgeldbeutel gesegnet ist. An diesem Punkt schäme ich mich für “meine” Bahn, für “meine” EU.
- Für einen Neubeginn in Europa, Emmanuel Macron
Noch nie seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg war Europa so wichtig. Und doch war Europa noch nie in so großer Gefahr.
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