{"id":1639,"date":"2019-10-04T16:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T23:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2019-10-04T16:00:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T23:00:56","slug":"five-for-friday-october-4-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-october-4-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; October 4, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I recently re-read (skimmed) Steve McConnell&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.construx.com\/books\/software-estimation-demystifying-the-black-art\/\">Software Estimation, Demystifying the Black Art<\/a>. When I met with Microsoft Press to pitch HWTSAM, they gave a hot-off-the press new copy, and while some of the book feels &#8220;old school&#8221;, it&#8217;s still filled with foundational estimation knowledge. <\/li><li>I work at  home, and absolutely need a quiet PC &#8211; my old power supply was acting up, so I picked up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corsair.com\/us\/en\/Categories\/Products\/Power-Supply-Units\/hxi-series-config\/p\/CP-9020072-NA\">Corsair HXI 750<\/a> &#8211; not only is it quiet, it&#8217;s so quiet that there&#8217;s a button on the power supply to manually spin up the fan in case you&#8217;re wondering if it&#8217;s working.<\/li><li>One of the cool things with the Corsair is that it plugs into an open USB interface on the motherboard (or, if you must, you can run a cable outside the box to an external port) in order to read temperature and load levels. Of course, their app is windows only, but there&#8217;s a nice <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/audiohacked\/OpenCorsairLink\">command line app for viewing and controlling the drive on github<\/a>.<\/li><li>One reason for WiP (work in progress) limits is to reduce multi-tasking. Another is to make sure we <em>finish<\/em> things so we can get feedback. This article &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hadermann.be\/blog\/219\/the-cost-of-waiting-for-feedback\/\">The Cost of Waiting for Feedback in Software Development<\/a> talks about why.<\/li><li>No intro needed &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/qualityandinnovation.com\/2019\/09\/21\/agile-vs-lean-cats\/\">Agile vs. Lean &#8211; Explained by Cats<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently re-read (skimmed) Steve McConnell&#8217;s Software Estimation, Demystifying the Black Art. When I met with Microsoft Press to pitch HWTSAM, they gave a hot-off-the press new copy, and while some of the book feels &#8220;old school&#8221;, it&#8217;s still filled with foundational estimation knowledge. I work at home, and absolutely need a quiet PC &#8211;&#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-1639","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\/1639","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=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1640,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}