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Toot of the Week

let’s all go back to internet 1.0. you can only connect to it through a black and white macintosh, and the only things there are a chatroom and movie times. no browsers. no sites. and you can only connect late in the evening when no one is expecting a phone call. oh and you’re charged by the minute. it’s beautiful. — @PHIL_FISH@mastodon.gamedev.place

Peopleware

• Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems (jsomers.net)

  James Somers about activation energy and why working fast can be beneficial.

• Don't make the same 3 performance review mistakes I made (careercutler.substack.com)

  Jordan Cutler shares some advice for performance reviews.

• Killing Community (marginalia.nu)

  Viktor Lofgren explains how a community can feel like a village and how that is destroyed.

Software

• Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory (erikbern.com)

  Erik Bernhardsson about engineer productivity, the knowledge factory and the future of engineering.

• The five types of people who produce inaccessible code (ericwbailey.website)

  Eric lists five personas of people who write inaccessible code.

• Finish your projects (github.com)

  Aaron Francis shares advice on how to finish your (side-)projects.

• Ikea-Oriented Development (taylor.town)

  Taylor takes the core principles from IKEA and applies them to software engineering.

Cutting Room Floor

• Eastern philosophy says there is no "self." Science agrees (bigthink.com)

  Chris Niebauer explains that a lot of problems come from people thinking their self is a pilot, when it in fact might not exist.

• The dark side of the leadership (elenaverna.substack.com)

  Elena Verna always wanted to be in a leadership position but wasn’t aware of the downsides they’re now summarising in this article.

• UN chief says fossil fuels are 'incompatible with human survival,' calls for credible exit strategy (pbs.org)

  Secretary-General Antonio Guterres finds strong words against big oil and dismisses attempts to make them more efficient.