{"id":2413,"date":"2025-01-10T18:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T02:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=2413"},"modified":"2025-01-10T18:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T02:03:21","slug":"five-for-friday-january-10-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-january-10-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; January 10, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m back. I never left, and I never stopped consuming content &#8211; I just took a break from sharing things I liked. The break is over &#8211; and while nobody complained about no posts for a month here are some things to look at anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tim Ottinger has a nice article on <a href=\"http:\/\/agileotter.blogspot.com\/2024\/12\/irresponsibility-estimates-and.html\">Estimates vs. No Estimates<\/a> which a lot of you should probably read.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Michael Lopp posted an article on <a href=\"https:\/\/randsinrepose.com\/archives\/managing-up\/\">Managing Up <\/a>recently. It&#8217;s a good article, but interesting because I&#8217;ve had a similar draft post sitting in the queue at <a href=\"https:\/\/angryweasel.substack.com\">angryweasel blog<\/a> for a few months now.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>James Shore wrote a recap of a recent presentation about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesshore.com\/v2\/blog\/2025\/the-best-product-engineering-org-in-the-world\">The Best Product Organization in the World<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I really enjoyed this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/workband.substack.com\/p\/a-new-definition-for-team-productivity\">A New Definition For Team Productivity<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And finally, Dan Schaeffer asks, <a href=\"https:\/\/danschaefer.dev\/blog\/should-you-be-a-software-generalist-or-specialist\">Should You Be a Software Generalist or Specialist?<\/a> (the proper answer is, of course, a little bit of both).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s all for this new week in a weird new year. L8r.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back. I never left, and I never stopped consuming content &#8211; I just took a break from sharing things I liked. The break is over &#8211; and while nobody complained about no posts for a month here are some things to look at anyway. That&#8217;s all for this new week in a weird new&#8230;<\/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-2413","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\/2413","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=2413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2414,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions\/2414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}