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On the Web and its tools …
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On AWS …
- AWS Graviton2 – James Hamilton, Perspectives
I believe there is a high probability we are now looking at what will become the first high volume ARM Server.
- Observations on ARM64 & AWS’s Amazon EC2 M6g Instances – Liz Fong-Jones, Honeycomb
For our use case, M6g is superior in every aspect to C5: it costs less on-demand, has more RAM, exhibits lower median and significantly narrower tail latency, and runs cooler with the same proportional workload per host.
- A Detailed Overview of AWS API Gateway – Alex DeBrie
AWS API Gateway is an awesome service to use as an HTTP frontend. […] In this post, you’ll learn the different steps in an API Gateway request. For each step, we’ll see what you should be doing in that step and how it fits in the overall picture.
- How to optimize AWS Lambda performance – Efi Merdler-Kravitz, Lumigo
In this article, we are going to talk about various parameters to be considered for AWS Lambda performance tuning.
- Why is AWS IAM So Hard? – Stephen Kuenzli, #NoDrama DevOps
IAM is really important and it’s really hard for a lot of people, even on good teams with robust processes.
- AWS isn’t killing your business, you just suck at it – Corey Quinn
Companies that currently aren’t thriving love to blame AWS for their problems. But I don’t think the criticism sticks.
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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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