Web Review, Week 2022-40
I’m back from Akademy, it was a blast I was glad to be there and meet people in person again. Now let’s go for my web review for the week 2022-40.
TikTok Tracks You Across the Web, Even If You Don’t Use App - Consumer Reports
Tags: tech, social-media, surveillance, attention-economy
The most addictive and also tracking you everywhere it can (unsurprisingly). Toxicity at its highest.
A multi-language bindings generator for rust
Tags: tech, rust, bindings
This should hopefully ease the pain of mixing Rust with other languages.
https://github.com/mozilla/uniffi-rs
Pull Rust introductory support from Kees Cook
Tags: tech, linux, kernel, rust
This is definitely a big deal both for the kernel and for Rust.
A curated collection of diagramming tools used by software engineering teams
Tags: tech, architecture, diagrams
A good list of tools for making diagrams in various situations.
https://github.com/shubhamgrg04/awesome-diagramming
Laurence Tratt: UML: My Part in its Downfall
Tags: tech, architecture, design, uml, history
Very interesting post about the history of UML and the MDA approach. Clearly MDA and UML v2 was the beginning of the end for UML. That’s too bad, I find UML still useful for sketching and communication between humans.
https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2022/uml_my_part_in_its_downfall.html
Monday’s Engineering - Personal Development Plan
Tags: tech, hr, management, career
Interesting career ladder example. I especially like the various dimensions they focus on.
https://growth.monday.com/homepage/rd/engineering/?p=mr0-mr1-mr2-mr3-tr0-tr1-tr2-&f=no
Staff engineer archetypes. | Irrational Exuberance
Tags: tech, management, tech-lead, team
Interesting little taxonomy of staff engineer roles. This can help to know from where you’re talking in your organization.
https://lethain.com/staff-engineer-archetypes/
First make the change easy, then make the easy change
Tags: tech, life, xp, refactoring
Good point, this little wisdom from Kent Beck goes further than just code and refactoring.
https://www.adamtal.me/2019/05/first-make-the-change-easy-then-make-the-easy-change
An end to doomerism - Big Think
Tags: life, philosophy
Although I disagree with some of the examples she summons, I think she indeed has a point.
https://bigthink.com/progress/pessimism-is-a-barrier-to-progress/
Bye for now!