Reading List
This is a list of articles that I found interesting and want to note down for myself and share with others. You can also subscribe via RSS.
2024
Mastering Programming - by Kent Beck ↗ Reading List
Power of Small Optimizations ↗ Reading List
A good guide to gain small and big wins.
2023
Leading as the most experienced engineer in the room ↗ Reading List
An interesting view of how the world changes from solving problems to supporting others in solving problems.
What a good debugger can do ↗ Reading List
There’s nothing more powerful than a developer with a good debugger and the knowledge of how to use it.
A Skeptic’s Guide to Software Architecture Decisions ↗ Reading List
Admittedly, I’m often too positive on assumptions and not sceptical enough. This is a good article to help fix that or change the approach.
You Want Modules, Not Microservices ↗ Reading List
Another article of why Microservices might not be the right solution to your problem.
2022
The Perfect Commit ↗ Reading List
I aspire to at least have a pull request with those features.
Generous use of git rebase
make it possible for very commit.
This requires some planning ahead and cleanup but makes reviews now or later so much easier.
Staff engineer archetypes ↗ Reading List
In my career I’ve been all these roles at one point or another, but at smaller sizes. My current role fits neatly into the Team Lead. There are aspirations for Architect though.
More...Benchmarking Caddy vs. Nginx ↗ Reading List
Some ways to get better at debugging ↗ Reading List
A short overview for strategies on how to get better at debugging.
In short:
- know the code
- know your tools
- know yourself
- know how to approach problems
Sharing Network Namespaces in Docker ↗ Reading List
A guide on how to share the network namespace with another container. This is how a Pod
in Kubernetes contains multiple containers. If you’re not working with Kubernetes but e.g. with Docker or docker-compose
, this works in the same way pretty much.
Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries ↗ Reading List
I have complicated feelings about TDD • Buttondown ↗ Reading List
TDD often makes your design better!
My point is that it can also make your design worse. Some TDD is better than no TDD, but no TDD is better than excessive TDD. TDD is a method you use in conjunction with other methods. Sometimes you’ll listen to the methods and they’ll give conflicting advice. Sometimes, TDD’s advice will be right and sometimes it will be wrong. Sometimes it’ll be so wrong that you shouldn’t use TDD in that circumstance.
It’s one of many tools you have at your disposal, but like any of them it’s not the panacea that solves all your problems.
A script to fix EDID problems on external monitors in macOS ↗ Reading List
Finally I found the missing link to set up EDID overrides on Big Sur and later, where System Integrity Protection (SIP) is enabled.
In short, MacOS also takes overrides from the path /Library/Displays/Contents/Resources/Overrides
, which is admin writable.