{"id":2423,"date":"2025-02-14T10:35:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T18:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2025-02-14T10:35:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T18:35:38","slug":"five-for-friday-february-14-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-february-14-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; February 14, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back again for another week of semi-interesting links. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I don&#8217;t even know where to start with DOGE. They don&#8217;t appear to know what they&#8217;re doing, nor how relational databases work. And apparently &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/612865\/doge-government-website-database-security-open\">anyone can edit their website<\/a>. What a fucking mess.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On a more positive (but not <em>that<\/em> postive) note, it&#8217;s performance review season at a lot of companies. This guide on <a href=\"https:\/\/10xmanager.substack.com\/p\/10x-owning-the-tough-conversations\">Owning the Tough Conversations<\/a> is full of excellent advice for managers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I&#8217;ve never been a fan of staging (or testing) environments. This article sums up many of my thoughts &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ivelum.com\/blog\/you-might-not-need-staging\/\">You might not need staging<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I&#8217;ve been asked about a billion times in the last few weeks how to measure the productivity boost from ai coding assistants. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swarmia.com\/blog\/productivity-impact-of-ai-coding-tools\/\">This article<\/a> has some reasons why I hate this question as well as some tips (warning &#8211; it&#8217;s a product site, but the points are valid).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And speaking of head-nodders with AI, let me drop a double to end the post this week. <a href=\"https:\/\/defragzone.substack.com\/p\/techs-dumbest-mistake-why-firing\">Tech&#8217;s Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/vale.rocks\/posts\/ai-is-stifling-tech-adoption\">AI is Stifling Tech Adoption<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back again for another week of semi-interesting links. Enjoy.<\/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-2423","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\/2423","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=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2424,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions\/2424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}