{"id":1282,"date":"2018-05-18T12:19:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T19:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2018-05-18T16:34:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T23:34:06","slug":"five-for-friday-may-18-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-may-18-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; May 18, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five things on my mind &#8211; or interesting this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I recently re-read a chunk of The Lean Startup, and highlighted yet-another-quote-about-failure-and-learning.<br \/>\n\u201c<em>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.<\/em>\u201d &#8212; Eric Ries<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;which leads well into this article (it&#8217;s from last month, but I just found it this week), on what it really means to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fs.blog\/2018\/04\/reversible-irreversible-decisions\/\">Go Fast and Break Things<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0I tweeted to my web provider last week about getting free SSL (they currently charge a minimum of $8 a\u00a0<strong>month<\/strong> for SSL on angryeasel.com). The bot(?)-driven replies and emails leads me to believe that web hosting is a highly competitive market. Overall, it looks like I can save a few bucks a month AND get ssl up and running. So far, leading contenders are <a href=\"http:\/\/interserver.net\">Interserver<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/\">Chemicloud<\/a>. I am, of course, open to other options (needs are hosting of two wordpress sites, domain email, and at least 10GB of storage.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s almost World Cup time, and it was interesting to see that a simulation done by UBS predicted that Germany would win (they&#8217;re probably right), but more interestingly, they gave <a href=\"https:\/\/the18.com\/soccer-news\/ubs-world-cup-predictions-include-italy\">Italy a 1.6% chance of winning<\/a>. For my non-football\/soccer readers this is interesting because\u00a0<em>Italy did not quality for the World Cup<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, it&#8217;s yet-another well written article on the Netflix Tech blog &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/netflix-techblog\/full-cycle-developers-at-netflix-a08c31f83249\">Full Cycle Developers at Netflix?\u2014?Operate What You Build<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five things on my mind &#8211; or interesting this week: I recently re-read a chunk of The Lean Startup, and highlighted yet-another-quote-about-failure-and-learning. \u201cWhen 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.\u201d &#8212; Eric&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}