{"id":2338,"date":"2024-04-26T14:36:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T21:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2024-04-26T14:36:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T21:36:54","slug":"five-for-friday-april-26-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-april-26-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; April 26, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back again for another week of interesting things that I think are worth sharing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I&#8217;m guessing everyone already knows that <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ibm.com\/2024-04-24-IBM-to-Acquire-HashiCorp-Inc-Creating-a-Comprehensive-End-to-End-Hybrid-Cloud-Platform\">IBM is buying Hashicorp<\/a> &#8211; which is interesting, but maybe inevitable. We&#8217;ll see how this plays out.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I spent a chunk of time reading some code in the recent release of the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/MS-DOS\/tree\/main\/v4.0\">MS DOS 4.0 source code<\/a>, and it certainly brought back some memories. I don&#8217;t think I ever looked at this while I was at msft (I joined in 1995), but I was certainly a heavy user of DOS4 when it came out.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A fantastic article from Johanna Rothman this week on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jrothman.com\/mpd\/2024\/04\/how-to-move-from-story-points-and-magical-thinking-to-cycle-time-for-decisions\/\">How to Move from Story Points and Magical Thinking to Cycle Time for Decisions<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I&#8217;ve worked on internal-facing tools for most of my career. <em>Many<\/em> times in the past few decades, I&#8217;ve been asked if something I or my team wrote should be sold (or given) externally. This article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.probablewisdom.com\/p\/productizing-internal-tools\">Productizing internal tools<\/a> does a wonderful job discussing when this is &#8211; or isn&#8217;t a good idea.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lastly &#8211; I was asked a few times recently about the recording platform we use for AB Testing &#8211; we use <a href=\"https:\/\/riverside.fm\/\">Riverside.fm<\/a> &#8211; which so far has been near perfect, and a huge upgrade over zencastr. Hopefully it continues to deliver.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>All for now &#8211; see you in a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back again for another week of interesting things that I think are worth sharing. All for now &#8211; see you in a week.<\/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-2338","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\/2338","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=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions\/2339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}