141 / Fail Forward With Kindness

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Quote of the Week

“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.” —Brian W. Kernighan

Working

• Doing weeknotes (doingweeknotes.com)

  Giles Turnbull has a guide on writing weeknotes, with real-world examples!

• Making Films and Making Websites (blog.jim-nielsen.com)

  Jim Nielsen compares filmmaking to software development and argues “too much care and craft can be sunk into the artifacts of our own craft while forgetting the whole they serve”.

• So you've been reorg'd... (jacobian.org)

  Jacob Kaplan-Moss gives advice on what to do when reorganization happens at work.

Software

• "No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens (xeiaso.net)

  Xe Iaso about helpless C programmers.

• Hackintosh is (almost) dead (aplus.rs)

  Aleksandar Vacić about the hopeless state of Hackintosh.

Cutting Room Floor

• Fail Forward With Kindness (marcel.io)

  Marcel Wichmann explains why being kind to yourself when failing is the best recipe for growth.

• Don’t Be the Best. Be the Only. (kottke.org)

  Jason Kottke digs into a quote by Kevin Kelly.

• Take it from a former banker: the budget is for ordinary people. The mega-rich look on and laugh (theguardian.com)

  Gary Stevenson tells the story of their work as a trader and why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

• Shields up: New ideas might make active shielding viable (arstechnica.com)

  Jacek Krywko explains the current state of active shielding (from radiation in space) and why we might have them in a few years.