{"id":1597,"date":"2019-06-28T17:38:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T00:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2019-06-28T17:38:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T00:38:37","slug":"five-for-friday-june-28-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-june-28-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; June 28, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I haven&#8217;t used a mechanical keyboard in years, but it&#8217;s been on my radar for a while, and now that I have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daskeyboard.com\/model-s-professional\/\">das keyboard<\/a>, I&#8217;m bummed I didn&#8217;t switch back sooner. I have the most basic keyboard of their line, and from the feel and construction, I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ll ever need to buy another keyboard.<\/li><li>This article from The Atlantic on E<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2019\/07\/future-of-work-expertise-navy\/590647\/\">xpertise Falling Out of Favor<\/a> has uncanny parallels to the software industry. It&#8217;s largely about generalists (or specializing generalists), but check out this quote.<br \/><br \/><em>The phenomenon is sped by automation, which usurps routine tasks, leaving employees to handle the nonroutine and unanticipated\u2014and the continued advance of which throws the skills employers value into flux.\u00a0<\/em><\/li><li>Having worked on Microsoft Teams at one point, I enjoyed this article about how <a href=\"https:\/\/stackshare.io\/stack-history-timeline-slack-tech-stack-evolution\">Slack&#8217;s Tech Stack has grown<\/a>.<\/li><li>Chris Kenst had a nice post recently titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenst.com\/2019\/06\/move-fast-and-make-things-better\/\">Move fast and make things better<\/a>.<\/li><li>I switched to chemicloud for my web hosting about a year ago, and it&#8217;s been amazing. I get WordPress hosting for two sites,  ssl,  and all of the expected goodies for less than $75 a year. They also transferred all of my content from my old provider seamlessly. <br \/>If you&#8217;re in the market for a new provider and want to support hosting of this blog and AB Testing, my <a href=\"https:\/\/lab.chemicloud.com\/aff.php?aff=260\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/lab.chemicloud.com\/aff.php?aff=260\">affiliate link is here.<\/a><br \/>Or, feel free to sign up directly through <a href=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\">chemicloud<\/a> if you prefer.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t used a mechanical keyboard in years, but it&#8217;s been on my radar for a while, and now that I have a das keyboard, I&#8217;m bummed I didn&#8217;t switch back sooner. 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