{"id":2311,"date":"2024-02-23T08:45:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T16:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2024-02-23T08:45:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T16:45:49","slug":"five-for-friday-february-23-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-february-23-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; February 23 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s the time of year in Seattle where we see a little sunshine and briefly think that Spring is near&#8230;but it&#8217;s a trap. It will be raining and 40f next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are a few things I read this week worth sharing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>As I&#8217;m writing this, I&#8217;m listening to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I_NKuuQ4Hy0\">Paramore&#8217;s cover of Burning Down the House<\/a> for the 900th time. Everything I love from TH magically transported to the 21st century. <br \/>Hayley Williams and David Byrne for president!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As regular readers know, few things irk me more than people describing why Agile &#8220;doesn&#8217;t work&#8221; and then explaining that their process isn&#8217;t Agile at all. Anyway &#8211; this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcloadletter.dev\/blog\/agile\/\">Agile is a tainted term<\/a> contains this gem of a quote.<br \/>&#8220;<em>There are some takes out there that agile is dead. I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s quite true, but the word &#8220;agile&#8221; is certainly dead dead. It&#8217;s devoid of any meaning because it means everything and nothing all at once. The principles of agile development are still wonderful and useful, but there is no longer a singular word that can helpfully convey them. Maybe there really never was, but for sure none exists today<\/em>.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In my never-ending quest to understand enough about LLMs and GenAI to not sound like as much of an idiot as the self-proclaimed experts on linkedin, I read this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/matt.si\/2024-02\/llms-overpromised\/\">Large Language Models Are Drunk at the Wheel<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Will Larson has a new book &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lethain.com\/eng-execs-primer\/\">The Engineering Executive&#8217;s Primer<\/a>. I&#8217;ve read the first few chapters, and as is typical with Larson&#8217;s writing, it&#8217;s packed full of relevant and pragmatic information.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finally &#8211; It&#8217;s that time of the year again &#8211; it&#8217;s time for the mediocre sports league that I love anyway (MLS) to kick off another season. If you&#8217;re reading this blog \/ newsletter thingy from outside the US, here&#8217;s a write up on the only match you care about. <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/02\/22\/sport\/lionel-messi-inter-miami-mls-season-opener-spt-intl\/index.html\">Lionel Messi skill lights up Inter Miami\u2019s MLS season opener<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And that&#8217;s it for another week. See you in March!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the time of year in Seattle where we see a little sunshine and briefly think that Spring is near&#8230;but it&#8217;s a trap. It will be raining and 40f next week. Here are a few things I read this week worth sharing. And that&#8217;s it for another week. 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