{"id":2371,"date":"2024-08-02T11:57:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T18:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2024-08-02T11:57:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T18:57:25","slug":"five-for-friday-august-2-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-august-2-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; August 2, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I started writing today&#8217;s post and pondered for a moment how long I&#8217;ve been sharing stuff on Fridays. I&#8217;ll save you the search &#8211; it will be seven years in October. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet here we are again with five things that caught my interest this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I&#8217;ve been playing <a href=\"https:\/\/contexto.me\/\">contexto<\/a> every day now. I played it a few years ago, and thought it was too hard, but came across it again, and this time I&#8217;m hooked. I got one word this week on my 15th guess with no hints, so there&#8217;s nowhere to go but down.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Last week I linked to the results of the latest Stack Overflow survey. One thing that stood out for a lot of us who viewed the results was how many developers are frustrated by technical debt. This article on <a href=\"https:\/\/itnext.io\/dont-ask-permission-to-do-your-job-correctly-avoiding-the-technical-debt-trap-51c87e3be822\">Don\u2019t Ask Permission To Do Your Job Correctly: Avoiding The Technical Debt Trap is full of great nuggets<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Another<\/em> thing people don&#8217;t talk about in Accelerate (for more, see my latest post on <a href=\"https:\/\/angryweasel.substack.com\">The Weasel Speaks<\/a>) is the little rant against maturity models. This article on <a href=\"https:\/\/adrianhoward.com\/posts\/maturity-models\/\">Why I Dislike Maturity Models<\/a> is possibly even better.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Another head-nodder for me was this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/ashleyjanssen.com\/7-rules-for-an-effective-meeting-culture\/\">7 Rules For An Effective Meeting Culture<\/a>. So much great info here that is so often ignored.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finally &#8211; I had some fun refreshing my poor SQL skills by playing <a href=\"https:\/\/mystery.knightlab.com\/\">The SQL Murder Mystery<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And that&#8217;s that &#8211; see you in a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started writing today&#8217;s post and pondered for a moment how long I&#8217;ve been sharing stuff on Fridays. I&#8217;ll save you the search &#8211; it will be seven years in October. Yet here we are again with five things that caught my interest this week. 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