{"id":2128,"date":"2022-11-12T12:52:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T20:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2022-11-12T12:52:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T20:52:47","slug":"six-for-saturday-november-12-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/six-for-saturday-november-12-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Six for Saturday &#8211; November 12, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday was a bit of a blur, and FfF fell off the map. But &#8211; as has happened (at least) once before, the Saturday makeup is a six-pack of interesting things that I think you may find interesting as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You have to check out <a class=\"clutterFree_existingDuplicate clutterFree_noIcon cf_div_theme_dark\" href=\"https:\/\/www.programming-helper.com\/\">Programming Helper<\/a> &#8211; you type (in english) what you want to do, and it generates code in the language of your choice. It works remarkably well &#8211; even on more complex ideas. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A wonderful article from The Atlantic on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/11\/employee-work-burnout-manager-prevention\/672004\/\">What Managers Can Do About Burnout<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A colleague shared this great article from Rob Lambert on prioritization &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/cultivatedmanagement.substack.com\/p\/if-were-doing-this-were-not-doing\">If we&#8217;re doing this, we&#8217;re not doing that<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Back when I was writing more, I remember reading advice that said (paraphrased), &#8220;Every time you want to use the word &#8216;very&#8217; in your writing, replace it with &#8216;damn&#8217;. That way your editor will remove it for you&#8221;. This is still good advice, but if you want to choose an even better adjective, try out this site that helps you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.losethevery.com\/\">lose the very<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I don&#8217;t point y&#8217;all to podcasts very often, but the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/devinterrupted.com\/podcast\/the-promise-of-platform-engineering\/\">Dev Interrupted podcast w\/ Charity Majors<\/a> was <s>very good<\/s> marvelous<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&#8217;s no secret that Twitter is a mess right now. For any Twitter employees reading this, my heart goes out to you. While there&#8217;s no single article that can sum up with chaos, my personal favorite is this collection of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/funny-tweets-check-mark-3234016\/\">7 funniest imposter tweets from Twitter&#8217;s check mark fiasco<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for your patience (and thanks for reading). See you next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a bit of a blur, and FfF fell off the map. But &#8211; as has happened (at least) once before, the Saturday makeup is a six-pack of interesting things that I think you may find interesting as well. Thanks for your patience (and thanks for reading). 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