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

Culture

• Overthinking (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 (charity.wtf)

  Charity about what makes a good engineering director (a manager managing engineering managers).

Tech

• What Makes a Great Developer Experience? (leerob.io)

  Lee Robinson has some great thoughts on developer experience.

• Shipping to Production (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? (miriamsuzanne.com)

  Miriam Suzanne about slow social, the indie web and open wishes. Thanks, Jan!

• Into the Future with IntoFuture - Improving Rust Async Ergonomics (refaktory.net)

  Christoph Herzog showcases the IntoFuture trait that’s coming to stable Rust soon.

• Visualizing My Blog’s Internal Links (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 (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 (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 (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.