156 / Struggle and process

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Toot of the Week

Move slow and improve things.— @mwop@phpc.social

Work

• Consenting to decisions (everythingchanges.us)

  Mandy Brown explains the benefits of consensus decision making and how to make it work.

• Struggle and process (robinrendle.com)

  Robin Rendle about design process: ”Good design is improv!“.

• Hybrid Teams are the Worst (drakerossman.com)

  Drake Rossman explains why hybrid teams (some people at home, some in the office) is worse than full RTO.

Software

• Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes) (charity.wtf)

  Charity Majors makes a distinction between Observability 1.0 (metrics, logs and traces) and Observability 2.0 (wide events) and argues we need to move to the latter.

• Hacking a Virtual Power Plant (rya.nc)

  Ryan Castellucci explains how they cracked a 512-bit RSA key to sign any JWT tokens for a solar panels and battery storage system.

Cutting Room Floor

• All Hail the Cloud (cosmographia.substack.com)

  M. E. Rothwell about the new *Dyēus of our civilisation.

• The Bait-and-Switch Crisis: A Dangerous Disconnect Between Headlines and Content (joanwestenberg.com)

  Joan Westenberg about the dangers of clickbait headlines and how they affect echo chambers.