Five for Friday – May 17, 2024
This week has been…a week. But here are a few things I found worth sharing.
- I’m thoroughly enjoying the latest season of Welcome to Wrexham on Hulu. While I’m generally interested in anything soccer related, I’m fascinated by the joy and pain that comes with promotion/relegation in the English football system. And, it’s a pretty well done documentary.
- Not sure how new this is, but I discovered that Slack is going to train AI based on data from your workspace. You can opt out which is weird, but I pick up on what they’re trying to do.
- This article on exposed company secrets in private repos shows how easy it is to do dumb things. It reminds me of a quote that stuck with me from an underrated book called Release It! – keep in mind that the book was written several years ago.
“GitHub currently shows 288,093 commits with the title “Removed password.” Tomorrow that number will be higher.“ - I feel like someone writes this article every year – and every year I nod my head and think that more people should read articles like this. You probably don’t need microservices
- I’ve been thinking a lot about recently about “Done is better than perfect”, and this article was a good reminder of why that quote is true.
We’ve done it again – see you all in a week.
Thanks for sharing, as always. I have lived that life personally so it’s true that it’s not a skill issue, we had very smart people working there, but we still ended up basically with a distributed services monolith due to all the dependencies:(
Release It is such a great book. I bought copies for everyone on my team at Unity (before we joined you in Ads).