{"id":2204,"date":"2023-05-05T08:03:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T15:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2023-05-05T08:03:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T15:03:54","slug":"five-for-friday-may-5-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-may-5-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; May 5, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kind of a weird week. I left sunny and hot Seattle to visit Los Angeles for a few days &#8211; where it was cloudy and rainy. And now that I&#8217;m back in Seattle, it&#8217;s cloudy and rainy here too. At least the new Guardians movie is out so there&#8217;s something good to do indoors. Meanwhile &#8211; here are a few links to things I found this week that I thought were interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I was bummed to read that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/05\/03\/unity-layoffs-company-to-cut-600-employees-or-8percent-of-its-workforce.html\">Unity went through another round of layoffs<\/a>. I don&#8217;t have insights into much on this one (and <strong>too<\/strong> much on the last one), but I hope my old colleagues are all doing well. It&#8217;s tough for a company to do three rounds of layoffs in a year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Speaking<\/em> of corporate ugliness, I just gave <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/100469.Orbiting_the_Giant_Hairball\">Orbiting the Giant Hairball<\/a> a re-read. It is THE book, in my opinion for putting some sense into navigating the workplace when the workplace feels like a giant hairball.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I liked (and cringed at?) this article on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gabrieljiva.com\/2023\/05\/05\/a-tale-of-two-interview-loops\/\">Tale of Two Interviews<\/a>. Nothing destroys me more than giving a candidate a bad experience. Hiring teams need to do better.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This is interesting &#8211; Amazon Prime moved from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoq.com\/news\/2023\/05\/prime-ec2-ecs-saves-costs\/\">Serverless to EC2 and ECS to Save Costs<\/a>. This quote is something I think more development teams need to notice: <br \/>&#8220;<em>We realized that distributed approach wasn&#8217;t bringing a lot of benefits in our specific use case, so we packed all of the components into a single process.<\/em>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I&#8217;ve been a happy customer of Underground Cellar for several years. It was a great place to get highly drinkable wine at a reasonable price &#8211; PLUS, they&#8217;d store your wine for you until you wanted it. It was a great idea, of course, until <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/food\/wine\/article\/underground-cellar-wine-17925327.php\">they abruptly went out of business<\/a>. Now they have several <em>cases<\/em> of wine that I&#8217;m likely never going to see again. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And on that note, I&#8217;m going to sign off from this blog post and get back to my day job. Have a good weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kind of a weird week. I left sunny and hot Seattle to visit Los Angeles for a few days &#8211; where it was cloudy and rainy. And now that I&#8217;m back in Seattle, it&#8217;s cloudy and rainy here too. At least the new Guardians movie is out so there&#8217;s something good to do indoors. 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