117 / Don't be afraid to be wrong

Published on September 18, 2023

Hi hi, hope you find something good in todays issue 😌

Toot of the Week

is there like a 'no more tears' shampoo but for docker?— @dysfun@social.treehouse.systems

Don't be afraid to be wrong (nlopes.dev)
Norberto shares strategies to be more resilient and relaxed in cases where you could be wrong.
30 Criticisms That Hold Women Leaders Back, According to New Research (sheknows.com)
Lauryn Higgins about gender bias in the workplace and gives tips to fight it.

A Senior Engineer's CheckList (littleblah.com)
A checklist for a senior engineer (with 60 items!)
7 simple habits of the top 1% of engineers (engineercodex.substack.com)
A list with seven useful engineering habits.
Using Zig in our incremental Turborepo migration from Go to Rust (vercel.com)
Nicholas Yang explains how and why they use Zig as a compiler to enable the move from Go to Rust in Turborepo.
Linear code is more readable (blog.separateconcerns.com)
Pierre 'catwell' Chapuis about the benefits of linear code and how to get most of the benefits of abstractions.
Aging Code (vadimkravcenko.com)
Vadim Kravcenko about the glow of a maturity in an old(er) codebase and why it might outweigh the reasons to do a rewrite.

Your customers hate MVPs. Make a SLC instead. (longform.asmartbear.com)
Jason Cohen explains why Minimal Viable Product (MVP) is a selfish process and you should instead build something Simple, Lovable and Complete (SLC).
What if civilisation *doesn't* collapse? (shkspr.mobi)
@edent about the advantages of an eReader and risk management.
An Opinionated Personal Folder Structure (stefanzweifel.dev)
Stefan Zweifel explains their folder structure, adapted after Johnny Decimal. Thanks, Jan!

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