It’s the Friday after a long week and before a 3-day weekend. It was nice to catch up on a handful of things, and generally have a low-key day. See you on Tuesday!
[blog] Perfectly Reproducible, Verified Go Toolchains. Long, geeky post and I loved it. How do you protect yourself from supply chain attacks on open source projects? Reproduce the build from the source itself. Now Go lets you do that.
[blog] JetBrains Rider Welcomes Visual Studio for Mac Users With a 65% Discount on New Personal Subscriptions. I used VS for Mac when it first came out, but apparently it didn’t find a big audience or warrant further investment from Microsoft. JetBrains is welcoming those users to its terrific IDEs.
[blog] Why The Best Developers Are Obsessed With Vertical Slices. I’ve learned in my career that good teams don’t build layers, they solve for journeys that cut through the stack. When you work layer by layer, you don’t ship value until you’re complete with all of them. By taking vertical slices, you iterate on standalone value.
[blog] 5 Chrome tips for college students. Read this just for the tip about saving a single frame from a YouTube video. I already used this once today.
[article] Survey finds relatively few Americans actually use (or fear) ChatGPT. It’s good to read articles like this and break out of the tech-is-everything bubble we can find ourselves in.
[blog] Announcing Memorystore for Redis Cluster: Up to 60x more throughput, with microseconds latencies. During these conference weeks, many announcements go under the radar. Don’t sleep on this one; getting a more available Redis is a good deal.
[article] Are Collaboration Tools Overwhelming Your Team? What was interesting here was that individuals feel fairly helpless here, even if they try to trim their tool count. Does change need to start from the top?
[article] Salesforce’s on-prem clients face cloud migration pressure: Gartner. If you pay for installable software from a vendor who’s trying to switch to SaaS, be ready for a tougher time.
[docs] Cloud Foundry migration overview. I was, and am still, a fan of Cloud Foundry and the terrific apps and ops patterns it taught thousands of people. But it’s not the right choice for 2023 and beyond, and we talk to lots of folks looking for what’s next. This guide gets people to Cloud Run.
[article] Passing Bucks. Good story and reminder to not just find problems, but own solutions. Sometimes we can go too far and find ourselves fixing all sorts of things that others should handle. But I’d rather lean more into ownership than passivity.
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