Daily Reading List – January 9, 2024 (#235)

I cover a fair amount of “developer productivity” and “developer happiness” content in this reading list. Admittedly, I’m drawn to it. It’s not about pampered developers who do what they want and everyone caters to them. Rather, it’s about unleashing a valuable asset and holding them accountable for excellence by giving them what they need to succeed.

[article] What Is Active Listening? Being a good listener is a choice. One that takes a lot of effort, but has a material impact on those around you. I liked this article about active listening.

[blog] Software Quality. In measuring developer productivity, how does Google look at “quality” metrics? This post explores a new paper from us that digs into four dimensions of quality.

[blog] Step by step guide to deploying spring boot application on Google Cloud Run. Good little demo. I like that it starts at the very beginning of the process and doesn’t assume much.

[article] 2023: The Year Open Source Security Supply Chain Grew Up. From the surveys and data I’ve seen, we have a long way to go before we’re all good at securing our software supply chains. But there’s progress, and the tech itself is getting better.

[article] Code with Duet AI Live! Join Google experts for a weekly live coding and Q&A event series. We have a lot to learn about how generative AI tooling helps devs. If you want to watch a couple of pros figure it out live, you’ll like this weekly live coding series that starts on January 17th.

[article] Unleash Your Coding Superpowers: The Epic Tale of Customising My Cloud Development Environment with a Side of Java (Coffee, That Is!). Cloud dev environments are getting more popular, and I like when folks show how to customize them to their specific needs.

[article] 10 ways to destroy developer happiness. Don’t do these things to developers. Or frankly, most anyone in technology roles.

[blog] TDD: For Those Who Don’t Know How to Design Software. That’s a pretty frisky blog title. Well done. JB shares an interesting take on the usefulness of test driven development.

[blog] 3 predictions for AI in healthcare in 2024. I’ve gotten fairly cynical on vendor-driven predictions (even from my own employer), but these are pretty reasonable ones.

[article] It’s time to fix flaky tests in software development. Tests that sometimes work, and sometimes don’t, even when the code doesn’t change. Not fun. Trisha says you can’t ignore these flaky tests, and need to focus on resolving them.

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