61 / Shipping to Production
Hey, how's it going? It's super hot in Germany today (37 °C or 99 °F) so I'm going to get ice cream soon 🍦
Tweet Of The Week
I heard some JavaScript developers saying that hydration is pure overhead, so I decided to stop drinking water. — @markdalgleish on Twitter
Culture
Overthinking
4 min · kerkour.com
Sylvain Kerkour about the perfect thinking-to-doing ratio and why it's important not to hold yourself back with decisions that can be fixed later.
Advice for Engineering Managers Who Want to Climb the Ladder
29 min · charity.wtf
Charity about what makes a good engineering director (a manager managing engineering managers).
Tech
What Makes a Great Developer Experience?
4 min · leerob.io
Lee Robinson has some great thoughts on developer experience.
Shipping to Production
20 min · blog.pragmaticengineer.com
Gergely Orosz about different ways to ship to production and the cost/benefit of various safeguards.
Am I on the IndieWeb Yet?
3 min · miriamsuzanne.com
Miriam Suzanne about slow social, the indie web and open wishes. Thanks, Jan!
Into the Future with IntoFuture - Improving Rust Async Ergonomics
8 min · refaktory.net
Christoph Herzog showcases the IntoFuture trait that's coming to stable Rust soon.
Visualizing My Blog’s Internal Links
4 min · blog.jim-nielsen.com
Jim Nielsen visualises all internal links on their blogs in a nice graph. Thanks, Jan!
Ask HN: Best dev tool pitches of all time?
news.ycombinator.com
Shawn Wang asks HN about the best dev tool pitches, the answers are great!
Best practices for inclusive CLIs
10 min · seirdy.one
Rohan Kumar has a "living article" about dos and don'ts to build inclusive CLIs.
Cutting Room Floor
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
4 min · slate.com
Mario Vittone about the signs of drowning people — watch out for these when going swimming this summer.
The End of the Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy
4 min · theatlantic.com
Derek Thompson about the end of "Millennial Consumer Subsidy", where VC-backed companies (like Uber, Peloton or WeWork) loose money for every purchase in exchange for growth.
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