120 / Push and Pull

Hey, hope you find something nice to read this week 🤗

Toot of the Week

getting fired from apple for printing out little pieces of paper that say ".DS_Store" and leaving them everywhere — @chrisisgr8@tech.lgbt

Culture

• Push and Pull (kellanem.com)

  Kellan Elliott-McCrea about the meaning and importance of push and pull in engineering processes.

• How we manage 200+ open-source repos (turbot.com)

  This blog post contains seven lessons for managing open-source software.

• How to communicate like a GitHub engineer: our principles, practices, and tools (github.blog)

  Ben Balter and Allison Matlack about async communication practices at GitHub.

Cutting Room Floor

• Creativity faucet: Increase your creativity (julian.com)

  Julian Shapiro about what they call the creativity faucet; you almost always start with a bad idea and the trick is to keep trying.

• Mirage at Apple Park (arun.is)

  Arun about the newest addition to the Apple Campus: An art installation called “Mirage”. Thanks, Jan!

• We're all lurkers now (embedded.substack.com)

  Kate Lindsay about the current state of social media: Everyone’s either shouting into the void or lurking.