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Manageable On-Call for Companies without Money Printers

softwareatscale.dev

Google’s SRE book has become a Bible for software companies that want to learn better ops...
Google’s SRE book has become a Bible for software companies that want to learn better ops practices. It’s a well-written and informative book about concepts that weren’t talked much about previously in our industry. It’s also free to read online and is not part of a marketing or sales strategy with shady affiliate l...

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The Mortifying Ordeal of Pairing All Day

simplermachines.com

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3 Alternatives to Rubber Duck Debugging

massimo-nazaria.github.io

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Analytics, Crashreports and Audacity

proctet.net

I want to talk about analytics and my view on Audacities incentive to add analytics in...
I want to talk about analytics and my view on Audacities incentive to add analytics in the next release. Many people seem to be enraged by the sheer idea of adding analytics. And in some parts of the FOSS world analytics are a no-go, for example, F-Droid (FOSS android appstore) forbids any kind of tracking that isn'...

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Data Science is Hard: ALSA in Firefox

wordpress.com

(( We’re overdue for another episode in this series on how Data Science is Hard. Today...
(( We’re overdue for another episode in this series on how Data Science is Hard. Today is a story from 2016 which I think illustrates many important things to do with data. )) It’s story time. Gather ’round. In July of 2016, Anthony Jones made the case that the Mozilla-built Firefox for Linux should stop supporting ...

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What's the most mysterious bug you've ever encountered? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

Share your mysterious bugs. Was the cause surprising, or was it just you? Was it rewarding...
Share your mysterious bugs. Was the cause surprising, or was it just you? Was it rewarding to track down? How long did it take? Did it change your view of what you were working with?

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Kernel 5.12: Working to close the gap

collabora.com

While the kernel community has kept an always accelerating pace of development with no slowdown in...
While the kernel community has kept an always accelerating pace of development with no slowdown in sight, the release process has reached such maturity that a new release might sound a bit uneventful. But, when we are talking about one of the pieces of software used to fly that helicopter on Mars earlier this year, ...

linux practices
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Having a Healthy Pull Request Process for Teams

alexkitchens.net

Pull requests help teams manage risk in their services by allowing multiple team members to have...
Pull requests help teams manage risk in their services by allowing multiple team members to have input on the code that goes into production. When done well, a good pull request process encourages crucial and productive feedback. Team members collaborate on improving their services, and all team members feel heard. ...

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Python and me, or when in Rome...

rachelbythebay.com

Sunday, May 2, 2021 I've written in the past somewhat opaquely about certain programming languages and...
Sunday, May 2, 2021 I've written in the past somewhat opaquely about certain programming languages and my complaints about them. One that I'm not afraid to complain about by name is Python. You can look in enough of my old posts to see this pattern keeps coming up. It never fails to make my life more interesting tha...

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Delivering on an architecture strategy

thepete.net

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Testability = Modularity

massimo-nazaria.github.io

Let’s see how a testable software architecture is also modular, and vice versa! Practical Definition of...
Let’s see how a testable software architecture is also modular, and vice versa! Practical Definition of Testability Testability is the quality which enables the developer to easily test a software component separately from the rest of the architecture. Thus, a testable architecture is one which is made of components...

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Software qualities: what they are and how can you improve them

afpr252.github.io

I've found myself in many situations where I am either reviewing my own or someone else's...
I've found myself in many situations where I am either reviewing my own or someone else's code and I keep thinking that I am probably not considering something that I should. I also try to help my company develop better software and there's probably a lot more stuff we could do but I can't think of any. These events...

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Why SOLID may be useful for you in Elixir

dev.to

Software development is difficult. One of the ways to overcome difficulties of building software is to...
Software development is difficult. One of the ways to overcome difficulties of building software is to use so-called architectural patterns, for example well known SOLID principles. But trying to apply these principles in Elixir we often hesitate: Could these principles be even applicable? Don't they refer to classi...

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136 facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to landscape painting or nude modelling – Baldur Bjarnason

baldurbjarnason.com

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What are your favorite codebases to study? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

You can improve your programming skills by reading code, but the only code I’ve seen people...
You can improve your programming skills by reading code, but the only code I’ve seen people study is individual snippets or functions. Not files, much less codebases. So, if I wanted to improve my skills, what codebases should I read the source code of? Here are some specific questions: What’s the link to the codebase? What specifically does it teach? SOLID? Testing practices? GADTs?...

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Do you use nodejs for scripting instead of bash? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

Hi, I often find what for me it’s easier to write script in js instead of...
Hi, I often find what for me it’s easier to write script in js instead of bash. But I struggle with exec of other bin. Sometimes just use child_process, or install npm execa. Do you write scripts in js? What do you use for it? What is missing? Thanks. PS I understand what nodejs/js is not for everybody. But I like js and nodejs/npm...

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The thermocline of truth – Roblog, the blog of Rob Miller

robm.me.uk

Over the last twenty years, one of the most Kafka-esque scandals in British history has played...
Over the last twenty years, one of the most Kafka-esque scandals in British history has played out in slow motion: that of the Post Office’s Horizon IT system. The story is far too dramatic to do justice to here, but the basic outline of events is straightforward: In the early 2000s, the newly privatised Royal Mail ...

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The social contract of open source

snarky.ca

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