Polymath Engineer Weekly #23
Links your mom wants you to see
Hello again, take a look at what we have this week ;)
Links of the week
“Another feature about this guy is his low threshold of boredom. He'll pick up on a task and work frantically at it, accomplishing wonders in a short time and then get bored and drop it before its properly finished. He'll do nothing but strum his guitar and lie around in bed for several days after. That's also part of the pattern too; periods of frenetic activity followed by periods of melancholia, withdrawal and inactivity. This is a bipolar personality.“
I read this at least 2 times a year. Great read every time…
React I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down
“But I find myself constantly trying to hide your flaws. When I talk about you, I never mention the issues above - I just pretend we're a great couple, with no clouds on the horizon. In react-admin, I introduce APIs that remove the hassle of dealing with you directly. And when people complain about react-admin, I do my best to address their problem - when most of the time, they have a problem with you. Being a framework developer, I'm also on the front line. I get all the problems before everyone else.“
“The real world is complex. For almost anything, there is some grisly reality filled with nuance, nonsensical complications, and randomness (“what’s really going on”). But, when we communicate with each other, we usually speak in a handful of complete thoughts. When Person A has to communicate a complex idea to Person B, she invariably is going to leave out a lot of the details and say something accidentally too simple.”
“I’ve spent a lot of time discussing different mental frameworks to help you spend money without regret, but I’ve never put them all in the same place…until now. My recommendation is to browse the following techniques and not think about whether any of them is “right”, but whether any of them could work for you.”
How to Misuse & Abuse DORA Metrics
“Almost immediately things started going south. I started getting feedback that in some teams, people were spending two days every month gathering delivery metrics to report on. We heard about directors and VPs comparing teams based on the metrics. It was just a complete misunderstanding of how to appropriately use the metrics…“
How Instagram suggests new content
“The Home Feed Ranking System ranks the posts from the sources you follow based on factors like engagement, relevance, and freshness. On the other extreme lies the Explore Ranking System, which opens you up to many other public posts which might be relevant and engaging to you.“
Book of the week
The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
Do you have any more links our community should read? Feel free to post them on the comments.
Have a nice week. 😉
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