117 / Don’t be afraid to be wrong

Hi hi, hope you find something good in todays issue 😌

Toot of the Week

is there like a 'no more tears' shampoo but for docker?— @dysfun@social.treehouse.systems

Peopleware

• Don't be afraid to be wrong (nlopes.dev)

  Norberto shares strategies to be more resilient and relaxed in cases where you could be wrong.

• 30 Criticisms That Hold Women Leaders Back, According to New Research (sheknows.com)

  Lauryn Higgins about gender bias in the workplace and gives tips to fight it.

Software

• A Senior Engineer's CheckList (littleblah.com)

  A checklist for a senior engineer (with 60 items!)

• 7 simple habits of the top 1% of engineers (engineercodex.substack.com)

  A list with seven useful engineering habits.

• Using Zig in our incremental Turborepo migration from Go to Rust (vercel.com)

  Nicholas Yang explains how and why they use Zig as a compiler to enable the move from Go to Rust in Turborepo.

• Linear code is more readable (blog.separateconcerns.com)

  Pierre ‘catwell’ Chapuis about the benefits of linear code and how to get most of the benefits of abstractions.

• Aging Code (vadimkravcenko.com)

  Vadim Kravcenko about the glow of a maturity in an old(er) codebase and why it might outweigh the reasons to do a rewrite.

Cutting Room Floor

• Your customers hate MVPs. Make a SLC instead. (longform.asmartbear.com)

  Jason Cohen explains why Minimal Viable Product (MVP) is a selfish process and you should instead build something Simple, Lovable and Complete (SLC).

• What if civilisation *doesn't* collapse? (shkspr.mobi)

  @edent about the advantages of an eReader and risk management.

• An Opinionated Personal Folder Structure (stefanzweifel.dev)

  Stefan Zweifel explains their folder structure, adapted after Johnny Decimal. Thanks, Jan!