Catalog of Refactoring Refactoring.Guru makes it easy for you to discover everything you need to know about refactoring, design patterns, SOLID principles, and other smart programming topics. See also: The Catalog of Refactoring The Catalog of Design Patterns
Your Essential dbt Project Checklist | dbt Developer Blog If youâve been using dbt for over a year, your project is out-of-date. This is natural. ⊠This post is the checklist I created to guide our internal work, and Iâm sharing it here so you can use it to clean up your own dbt project. ⊠with this in hand, youâll at least know what youâre looking for.
Weâre in the midst of a fundamental shift in leadership - Fast Company Social psychologists John French and Bertram Ravenâs time-tested framework described five bases of interpersonal power, or the ability to effect change. ⊠Here is the six-element version of the framework: Legitimate power is inherent in a position, such as a supervisorâs job title. ⊠Reward power stems from the ability to grant bonuses, raises, promotions, and privileges. Coercive power relies on the ability to punish via termination, demotion, undesirable scheduling, or unpleasant assignments....
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Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. â Dwight Eisenhower Quote Investigator The details of a plan which was designed years in advance are often incorrect, but the planning process demands the thorough exploration of options and contingences. The knowledge gained during this probing is crucial to the selection of appropriate actions as future events unfold.
Remembering the strange case of the âCookie Pizza Monsterâ that every Technology Meetup organiser in Lisbon became very familiar with during the years around ~2019. A few nuggets of the outrageous situations surrounding these events, where normal social conventions went out the window: đ„ He was always one of the first to sign up right after a particular Meetup event was open đ€š Strong suspicion of an automated process going on đ Any Meetups that offered complimentary food (usually pizza) were especially targeted đ€€ Once at the Meetup, heâd ignore all the talks and dash for the pizzas đ„Ș The modus operandi was often to fold half of a pizza a couple of times, and process to eat it like a sandwich đ Rinse and repeat until full or no more pizzas đïž At one occasion he even brought refrigerator plastic bags to start filling with the available finger food đ€ When called out by the organiser he reluctantly stopped but was quite upset and rude đ„· In another occasion, was caught wandering the private office areas of the company hosting the event đȘ§ This despite clear signage indicating the event auditorium Although difficult situations to deal with at the time, it became an interesting inner-circle joke amongst Meetup organisers in Lisbon....
Enshittification - Wikipedia Enshittification is the pattern of decreasing quality observed in online services and products ⊠The term was used by writer Cory Doctorow in November 20221 ⊠Doctorow has also used the term platform decay to describe the same concept. The âEnshittificationâ of TikTok | WIRED Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves....
âA diagram of the relationships between Unix systemsâ by Eraserhead1, Infinity0, Sav_vas (Wikipedia)
Iâve come to consider that it doesnât matter too much what activity you choose to get a discussion going. What matters most is regular reflection, hearing all the voices in a team, and making progress together. â Jono Hey in Rose, Thorn, Bud - Sketchplanations
Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges) Rapid growth. The product went from zero to 5 million users in around 12 months after announcing an invite-only beta. Small team. Bluesky was built with a small team of 3 engineers during the first year, and with 12 software engineers at the time of publication.
The differences in British and American spelling - Oxford International English Schools The main difference is that British English keeps the spelling of words it has absorbed from other languages, mainly French and German. Whilst American English spellings are based mostly on how the word sounds when it is spoken. Follow the link for more details on typical differences in nouns, verbs, adverbs, etc.
Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man. â Aristotle
Itâs time to be outcome driven - Felipe Castro - OKR Trainer, Speaker, Author As Benedict Evans points out, humans have a clear tendency when they get new tools: Thereâs an old saying that when we get a new tool, we begin by making it fit the old way of working, and then we change the way we work to fit the new tool. 99% of people make OKR fit their old way of working....
Simple suggestions for technology investment. | by swardley | Apr, 2024 | Medium Wardleyâs unproven method of thinking about investment. Step 1: Ignore the consultants, business gurus and analyst reports. Step 2: Gather some actual practitioners. Step 3: Ask them what matters. Step 4: Categorise the list. Step 5: Map the perspectives [Parallel] Step 6: Identify areas of investment. [Parallel] Step 7: Aggregation and comparison. TL;DR Be clear on your purpose....
Show Me the Money: Making a Business Case for Accessibility in Small and Large Publishing Organisations | BookMachine DONâT: Say itâll increase sales DO: Talk about compliance DONâT: Pretend to be a lawyer DO: Speak to a lawyer DONâT: Promise AI will fix everything DO: Explore vendor options DONâT: Narrow the conversation solely to print disability DO: Talk about readiness and future-proofing DO: Talk to experts
GitHub - ivbeg/awesome-status-pages: Awesome list of status pages Awesome list of status pages opensource software, online services, and public status pages of major internet companies.
Rivers and buckets - Sketchplanations Itâs impossible to keep up with everything. Consider thinking of areas of your life like rivers, not buckets. Oliver explains rivers not buckets in âTreat your to-read pile like a riverâ. (from the Oliver Burkeman article above) The problem, as the critic Nicholas Carr explained, isnât filter failure. Itâs filter success. In a world of effectively infinite information, the better you get at sifting the wheat from the chaff, the more you end up crushed beneath a never-ending avalanche of wheat....
Hypermedia Systems We hope to have convinced you that hypermedia, rather than being a âlegacyâ technology or a technology only appropriate for âdocumentsâ of links, text and pictures, is, in fact, a powerful technology for building applications. In this book you have seen how to build sophisticated user interfacesâââfor both the web, with htmx, and for mobile applications, using Hyperviewâââusing hypermedia as a core underlying application technology....
Engineering strategy every org should write. | Irrational Exuberance An unordered list of strategies I would recommend every engineering organization document as they grow are: How do we review, merge, deploy, and release code? What are our approved technologies for new projects? When and how do we deprecate user-facing functionality? When and how do we deprecate internal tools? How do we document our software and process? Because this is a surprisingly controversial topic, explicitly which tools do we and donât we use for documentation?...
The JOT Method Hereâs how it works: Take a pen or pencil and turn to a blank page of a notebook. Write todayâs date in the upper left-hand corner. Think of one simple task that youâve been putting off. Write it down underneath the date. Do that task and only that task. Donât write out a to-do list. Itâs easy to let yourself get distracted by all of the other undone tasks you arenât doing....