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2022


Product vs. Feature Teams Reading List

<time datetime="2022-05-30 08:49:06 &#43;0200 &#43;0200">30 May 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">&middot;</span><span>37 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">&middot;</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span>

An interesting and apt breakdown of team types. I work in neither a product nor a feature team at the moment but am trying to add more product thinking into my own work and then my team’s.

Outputting only the match / capturing group with grep Reading List

<time datetime="2022-05-26 09:22:12 &#43;0200 &#43;0200">26 May 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">&middot;</span><span>26 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">&middot;</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span>

Grep doesn’t handle capturing groups, but with lookaround you can match and exclude prefixes. This leaves you with the part of the pattern that you needed.

On rebooting: the unreasonable effectiveness of turning computers off and on again Reading List

<time datetime="2022-05-25 12:24:00 &#43;0200 &#43;0200">25 May 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">&middot;</span><span>61 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">&middot;</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span>

Getting back to a defined and known state is a great way to recover. I found the concept of ‘crash-only-software’ very interesting, and the described approach of inevitable improvement and resilience from software that rather crashes than being in an unknown state. If it keeps crashing and you depend on it, you will get to understanding and fixing the issues quicker.

TipBITS: Always Show Window Proxy Icons - TidBITS Reading List

<time datetime="2022-03-30 07:22:00 &#43;0100 &#43;0100">30 March 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">&middot;</span><span>38 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">&middot;</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span>

I use the macOS proxy icon all the time. For me it is one of the most useful features on day-to-day use of macOS. Having it available at all times, not after hovering and an animation is great.

Microservices: Why Are We Doing This? Reading List

<time datetime="2022-03-23 09:32:21 &#43;0200 &#43;0200">23 March 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">&middot;</span><span>30 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">&middot;</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span>

At work I help maintain a platform used for microservices. This article helps ask the question whether microservices are the right approach for that particular application or system at all.