{"id":2353,"date":"2024-06-07T07:56:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T14:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2024-06-07T07:56:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T14:56:11","slug":"five-for-friday-june-7-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-june-7-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; June 7, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are approaching the midpoint of 2024 already. While you ponder that, here are a few things that interested me this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I&#8217;ve been reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/101021597-think-faster-talk-smarter\">Think Faster, Talk Smarter<\/a> by Matt Abrahams. I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot recently about delivering information effectively, and looking for techniques for myself &#8211; as well as to help with my coaching. It&#8217;s not my favorite book on the subject, but does have some good nuggets.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I haven&#8217;t linked to a Rands post in a while, but his post on <a href=\"https:\/\/randsinrepose.com\/archives\/the-robot-report-2-her\/\">The Robot Report #2 <\/a>is a great read.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I enjoyed this short but relevant post on <a href=\"https:\/\/nixon1333.com\/from-problem-to-solution-a-software-engineers-workflow\/\">From Problem to Solution: A Software Engineer&#8217;s Workflow<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I&#8217;m always a fan of yet-another-solution-for-flaky-tests &#8211; but this one is pretty good. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uber.com\/blog\/flaky-tests-overhaul\/\">Flaky Test Overhaul at Uber<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And finally, Danny Faught has a perfect write up on TDD in bash &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/swalchemist.wordpress.com\/2024\/06\/01\/test-driving-fizzbuzz-in-bash\/\">Test-Driving fizzbuzz in bash<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And that&#8217;s another week &#8211; thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are approaching the midpoint of 2024 already. While you ponder that, here are a few things that interested me this week. And that&#8217;s another week &#8211; thanks for reading.<\/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-2353","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\/2353","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=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2354,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions\/2354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}