139 / Towards a quieter, friendlier web

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Toot of the Week

All engineering is reverse engineering if you document things poorly enough. — @ids1024@fosstodon.org

Culture

• Great management and leadership books for the technical track (ntietz.com)

  Nicole has a shortlist of books for both the management as well as the technical track of software engineering.

Software

• How I use git worktrees (notes.billmill.org)

  Bill Mill explains their git worktree workflow and its upsides.

• Java is becoming more like Rust, and I am here for it! (joshaustin.tech)

  Josh Austin shows two features of modern Java that might or might not be inspired by Rust.

• My Reusable GitHub Actions Workflows (stefanzweifel.dev)

  Stefan Zweifel shares their reusable GitHub Actions workflows.

Cutting Room Floor

• Towards a quieter, friendlier web (coryd.dev)

  Cory Dransfeldt writes about principles they’re following on the internet.

• Design Spells (designspells.com)

  Chester, Duncan & Rick built a website to collect what they call “design details that feel like magic”.

• Great Products Have Great Premises (workingtheorys.com)

  Anu and Bharat Kilaru think all great products have a premise—and provide examples.