{"id":2429,"date":"2025-03-07T07:54:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=2429"},"modified":"2025-03-07T07:54:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:54:35","slug":"five-for-friday-march-7-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-march-7-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; March 7, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I skipped a week &#8211; but I&#8217;m back for today at least. Here are a few interesting things I found this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Great article this week on Lenny&#8217;s Newsletter about developer productivity &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lennysnewsletter.com\/p\/introducing-core-4-the-best-way-to\">Introducing Core 4: The best way to measure and improve your product velocity<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This article on <a href=\"https:\/\/theengineeringmanager.substack.com\/p\/should-managers-still-code\">Should managers still code?<\/a> answers this often-asked question &#8211; and so much more. Definitely worth a read.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I love how configurable git is &#8211; and while I don&#8217;t get to use it much anymore, I&#8217;m a big fan of the blog series from gitbutler &#8211; and especially this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gitbutler.com\/how-git-core-devs-configure-git\/\">How Core Git Developers Configure Git<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I also enjoyed this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrebler.substack.com\/p\/defining-a-great-engineering-culture\">building a great engineering culture<\/a>. If you read <a href=\"https:\/\/angryweasel.substack.com\">my newsletters<\/a>, you know that I try to build cultures based on transparency, accountability, and psychological safety, and nice to see flavors of those show up in this article.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Because software sucks, a betting firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cx2gl2n2n14o\">lost over a million dollars due to a bug in an online slot game<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks again for reading &#8211; see you in a week (or two).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I skipped a week &#8211; but I&#8217;m back for today at least. Here are a few interesting things I found this week. Thanks again for reading &#8211; see you in a week (or two).<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-2429","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\/2429","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=2429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2430,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions\/2430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}