Five for Friday – July 17, 2020

Here’s some interesting stuff I found this week.

  • I always love when Cindy Sridharan posts – this one is no exception.. Post-Commit Reviews
  • This is a great article on myths (or realities) of time management
  • Long time readers know that I ski for a week in Whistler every year – I hope to someday take longer ski vacations there…if they every let Americans back into Canada. Their total infection rate is less than any of the 50 US states.
  • Absolutely excellent post (and series) from Janet Gregory on Testing vs quality management
  • Microsoft “re-imagined” procmon for linux. I couldn’t get it to work on ubuntu 20.04, but I’m sure I’ll give it a run someday. A brief scan of comment streams tells me that nobody else can build it either. This is so microsoft.

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