128 / How to ship fast

Toot of the Week

Doomsday prepping, except instead of doing it by yourself you do it with your neighbors, and instead of building a bunker you build a just, compassionate, and sustainable community. — @tjdungeonmaster@dice.camp

Culture

• How Often Should We Sharpen Our Tools? (tratt.net)

  Laurence Tratt talks about sharpening our software engineering tools, giving an example where he migrated from NEdit to Vim to NeoVim.

• Practical Ways To Increase Product Velocity (blog.staysaasy.com)

  This blog post explains why your team velocity is down and how to improve it!

• How to ship fast (wraptext.equals.com)

  Ben McRedmond lists eight things you can do to ship fast.

Software

• All my favorite tracing tools: eBPF, QEMU, Perfetto, new ones I built and more (thume.ca)

  Tristan Hume lists a ton of tracing tools and technologies.

• Writing a file system from scratch in Rust (blog.carlosgaldino.com)

  Carlos Galdino wrote a file system in Rust and explains how they typically work in the process.

• Correctly Configure (Pre) Connections (csswizardry.com)

  Harry Roberts explains how to best configure preload tags on websites.

Cutting Room Floor

• The Soil We Eat (lostsupper.substack.com)

  Taras Grescoe explains how modern technology leads to less fertile soil and how we might only have 60 harvests left in the world.