135 / How To Fix Broken Teams

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Toot of the Week

The first release of Internet Explorer (1976) is closer in time to the Big Bang than to the year of Linux on the Desktop. — @jbzfn@mastodon.social

Culture

• How To Fix Broken Teams (blog.staysaasy.com)

  This article describes how to fix a dysfuncitonal team which owns a critical part of the company.

• Technical Skills Are Overrated. Focus on Your Attitude. (scarletink.com)

  Dave Anderson explains why soft skills care at least as, if not more, important than functional skills when hiring.

• Manage like an engineer (ben.balter.com)

  Ben Balter explains how you can use the same tools for management that engineers use to develop software.

Software

• Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (zachholman.com)

  Zach Holman writes an ode to 6 90’s web developer technologies.

• Adaptive _time compression — A database hacker story (axiom.co)

  Tomás Senart tells the story of optimising the _time column of a time-oriented database over Christmas.

• Lossy CSS compression for fun and loss (or profit) (blog.danieljanus.pl)

  Daniel Janus wrote a lossy CSS compiler.

• Switching to the meow modal editing system from evil (esrh.me)

  Eshan Ramesh about an alternative to Vim keybindings (on Emacs) which both makes more sense and is more flexible.

Cutting Room Floor

• Please, don’t force me to log in (hamatti.org)

  Juha-Matti Santala rants about the trend of everything requiring an account.