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Antilibrary - should I finish the book I am reading?
I read a lot of books and once I start reading a book I normally finish it. This article proposes that it may be more valuable to have a bunch of books that are unread. Not sure I completely buy in to the proposition that “Read books are far less valuable than unread ones” however maybe I won’t feel so guilty buying a book and then leaving it unread.
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Setting up Github SSH
Just a reminder of the starting point for setting up SSH with Github so I don’t have to keep looking for it each time.
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Git - what to do when it goes wrong
This has a great summary of what to do when things go wrong when using Git. Added here so I know where to look in moments of panic.
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Sometimes to learn you also need to do
I am back on the learning Scala trail and it is clear that just reading books and articles or watching videos won’t cut it. It needs to be hands-on coding.
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The secret history of Ctrl+Alt+Del
The background to why the famous “three finger salute” was chosen to be so difficult to do.
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Scala + Sbt + Docker quickly
I am currently starting to learn Scala (to add to a myriad of other languages I have programmed in over my career). We are also in the process of “dockerizing” our application. So I wanted to try for myself getting a simple Scala application running in Docker.
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Abandoning the baggage of Agile
I have worked with various flavours of “Agile” over numerous years. These have ranged from the very formal where everything is done by the book to more ad-hoc versions where different parts are cherry picked or in most cases done because people think they should be done.
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Abolish performance reviews
I have never been a fan of performance reviews. It may have been down to the way they were implemented at the places I worked however they never seemed to achieve what they were set out to do. The review would usually consist of going over the “achievements” for the past period and then setting a bunch of artificial goals for the next period. The only time these new goals were actually consulted was in the run up to the next review.
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Travel the world with the geographic game - GeoGuessr
This is a very simple idea for a quiz. It drops you in a random place somewhere in the world and you use Google StreetView to work out where it is. If you are lucky you end up in a town or city, sometimes you end up in the middle of nowhere. It is amazing how much you can work out by looking at the flora or a random signpost.
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The legacy vulnerability of the Internet
This article documents developments over the last ten years at all layers of the network stack. It also highlights how vulnerable the current Internet is.
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