{"id":2426,"date":"2025-02-21T15:04:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T23:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2025-02-21T15:04:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T23:04:48","slug":"five-for-friday-february-21-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-february-21-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; February 21, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s been an interesting week (aren&#8217;t they all these days?). Here are a few things you may (or may not) like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Let&#8217;s lead with good news. It was great to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oqbqPgckkoQ\">see Ash Hunsberger talking with Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin about Developer Experience<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been fortunate enough to work with Ash the last year, and she&#8217;s amazing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I thought there was a lot of truth in this post on <a href=\"https:\/\/lucumr.pocoo.org\/2025\/2\/20\/ugly-code\/\">Ugly Code and Dumb Things<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I worked on a few &#8220;science projects&#8221; when at Microsoft. One of them was a pet project I took on to make the debug version of consumer windows (win 9x) run. It was neglected throughout windows 98 development, and wouldn&#8217;t boot, let alone run (or run efficiently). So &#8211; articles like this one on <a href=\"https:\/\/gaultier.github.io\/blog\/making_my_debug_build_run_100_times_faster.html\">Making my debug build run 100x faster so that it is finally usable<\/a> warm my heart.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I read a lot of books, and I love pattern matching. So I adored this article that found <a href=\"https:\/\/menzen.ski\/posts\/2025\/02\/15\/on-team-topologies-and-deep-work\/\">patterns between Team Topologies and Deep Work<\/a> (two books I&#8217;ve re-read a few times each).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finally &#8211; I bought a new watch. Apple watches are cool, but when I&#8217;m hiking for a week, I don&#8217;t want a watch I need to recharge. I picked up this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.garmin.com\/en-US\/p\/1315317\">Garmin Instinct 3 Solar<\/a>, and it&#8217;s fantastic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And that&#8217;s a wrap for this week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been an interesting week (aren&#8217;t they all these days?). Here are a few things you may (or may not) like. And that&#8217;s a wrap for this 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-2426","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\/2426","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=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2427,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}