Five for Friday – April 16, 2021

ByAlan Page

Back for another week of random stuff I found on the internet.

  • The State of Testing Report is out – lots of interesting insights and info.
  • Maaret Pyhäjärvi has a short, but nice blog on learning from failure that’s worth reading
  • Not sure who else is using Sourcgraph (or why I haven’t heard of it before), but it’s what org wide code search should look like.
  • Great article from HBR on What Does It Mean to Be a Manager Today.
  • We’re doing a little security ctf (capture the flags) competition at work, and it reminded me that just about everyone in software should try at least a few of these. The CTF 101 site is a great place to start.

Similar Posts

  • 2011 year end roundup

    ByAlan Page

    I’ve been on vacation (whatever that means) for almost a week now, and don’t plan to post again until 2012. To help fill in the break (and for anyone new to my blog), I thought I’d share some stats and popular posts from the last twelve months. I wrote 60 blog entries in 2011. Some…

  • Intelligence and Insight

    ByAlan Page

    I have an after-work event tonight, and rather than leave my car in the garage overnight, I ran to work. Since I’ve moved to downtown Bellevue, I’ve done this a few times – and given that I’m running another half-marathon in 10 days, it was a great opportunity for a long training run before I…

  • Training and Practice

    ByAlan Page

    I’m not sure if this is a musician’s perspective of learning or something more universal, but it’s something that I think about often. When learning, there’s value in training, lessons, reading, and other learning opportunities, but there’s much more value (IMO) in practice – but I’m not sure if that’s how everyone sees it (or…

  • PBKAC?

    ByAlan Page

    Yesterday, I read a mail sent to an email alias I’m on, where the author was asking why tool X wasn’t enabled on his latest build. The mail looked something like this (genericized to protect the innocent). foo.service doesn’t appear to be working Repro: I installed the build from <build_path> I verified the binaries existed…

  • Five for Friday – May 18, 2018

    ByAlan Page

    Five things on my mind – or interesting this week: I recently re-read a chunk of The Lean Startup, and highlighted yet-another-quote-about-failure-and-learning. “When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it so easy to make that mistake.” — Eric…

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.