Daily Reading List – October 24, 2023 (#189)

I had a good day today. There are plenty of folks who didn’t, and I hope tomorrow is better. Let’s read some tech news and be optimistic about what’s ahead of us.

[article] The best open source software of 2023. Solid list of projects, some new (e.g. Bun, LangChain) some old (e.g. PostgreSQL, Istio). Skim through and find one or two that are new to you.

[article] What McKinsey got wrong about developer productivity. A lot has been written about this, but Jennifer offers fresh perspective here.

[article] Make Sure Your Application Comes Correct with Correctness SLOs. Were you familiar with this term? I was not. A Correctness SLO is looking for anomalies in behavior.

[article] How to Stop Taking Work So Personally. I’ve definitely had to stop and disconnect my personal identity from my work at times. It’s not necessary, or healthy, to wrap yourself up in the work you do.

[blog] Dev First Founder Toolkit. This links to a set of posts that help startups (and really, anyone) focused on developer products.

[blog] There are like nine actual full-stack engineers in the world, and you are NOT one of them. Aim to be t-shaped if you can. With bonus reference to my “full stack” rant.

[blog] .NET 8 Top 10 New Features. .NET seems to ship new language versions every other day, but each time, there are nice new optimizations.

[blog] Model Collapse: An Experiment. When you train AI models using their own output, good things don’t happen. Original content is as important as ever.

[blog] The overwhelmed person’s guide to Google Cloud: week of Oct 23. Great work from Forrest pulling in a wide range of nuggets. I discovered a few things by reading this.

[blog] Automating dead code cleanup. Some guidance from the engineering folks at Meta, with particular focus on dependencies.

[article] Despite the Hype, Engineers Not Impressed with DORA Metrics. The headline doesn’t reflect the piece itself; teams that know about DORA use the metrics, and only 6% thought the metrics weren’t useful. But hey, controversy sells!

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