{"id":2301,"date":"2024-01-26T10:06:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T18:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2024-01-26T10:07:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T18:07:02","slug":"five-for-friday-january-26-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-january-26-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; January 26, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Busy &#8211; and weird week for me. But here are some insights to what I&#8217;ve been up to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>More trash fiction. Almost done with the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/62983544-the-secret\">Jack Reacher &#8220;novel&#8221;<\/a>. I&#8217;ve read them all, and while they&#8217;re completely templatized and formulaic, I still enjoy reading the new one every year. Note &#8211; the Reacher series on Amazon is also very good, but season 2 was a considerable drop off in quality from season 1 &#8211; but still worth watching.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I absolutely <strong>loved<\/strong> this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/zyngaengineering.substack.com\/p\/the-kubernetes-eras-tour-how-zynga\">Kubernetes from The Zynga Team<\/a>. Great info, and wonderfully written.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There is SO much coming out about the benefits of Developer Experience recently &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3639443\">this ACM article <\/a>from Nicole Forsgren, Abi Noda, and a cast of others (no offense) is a great read for those interested in the topic.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I read &#8211; and re-read this article about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.com\/software\/agile-development-is-fading-in-popularity-at-large-enterprises-and-developer-burnout-is-a-key-factor\">Agile fading at large companies due to burnout<\/a> &#8211; and.. it&#8217;s frustrating. Personally, I blame SAFe, but on a larger scale, it&#8217;s yet another example of people\/teams trying to use tools and processes to solve human problems. Agile isn&#8217;t &#8220;a framework for faster delivery&#8221; &#8211; the principles focus on learning and adaptability, and if businesses don&#8217;t build that culture, of COURSE you get burnout and shitty delivery.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The first programming language I learned (unless you call batch files programming) was C. My mentor, Chris, taught me the three most important things about programming in C (pointers, pointers, and pointers). With that in mind, I spent a considerable amount of time reading through reconstructed <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/lethal-guitar\/Duke2Reconstructed\/\">Duke Nukem 2 source code<\/a> this week. I spent so much of my career reading and writing code similar to this that it brought warm fuzzies to my geek heart.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s all you get this week (not even gonna look to see if that&#8217;s five or not). Hang in there, and see you all in 7 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Busy &#8211; and weird week for me. But here are some insights to what I&#8217;ve been up to. That&#8217;s all you get this week (not even gonna look to see if that&#8217;s five or not). 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