If something is useful and likely to be useful again…get it out of Slack and move it into a Wiki, ticket tracker, anything that has a URL. Slack is a read-at-most-once medium.
Good one. I do use channel level /remind for heads down days in place of calendar reminders. Related: only in extreme circumstances is @_here or @_channel ever appropriate.
I should look into Workflows. I haven’t really used those much.
That’s a good learning. It definitely seems counterintuitive that “more channels is the answer to our channel overload”, but not all channels are created equally.
“Rather, I want to see us recognize the work of the educators, those that analyze and characterize and critique, everyone who fixes things, all the other people who do valuable work with and for others…” https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/why-i-am-not-a-maker/384767/
“Adjusting to management is difficult because the skills and metrics required for management success are completely different from those for individual contributors.”
What you give up when moving into engineering management https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/02/23/what-you-give-up-when-moving-into-engineering-management/
Plus, back in the day I used to install the MSDN docs from a binder of CDs so that my desktop had a local search engine. https://twitter.com/IrisClasson/status/1501501138549583874
In depth research and trends analyzed from 50+ different concepts as code https://www.jedi.be/blog/2022/02/23/trends-and-inventory-of-50-as-code-concepts/
“One obstacle preventing developers from understanding program behavior is the large amount of context switching required to be productive.”
Human-Centered Approach to Static-Analysis-Driven Developer Tools | March 2022 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022/3/258907-human-centered-approach-to-static-analysis-driven-developer-tools/fulltext
“This post focuses on the large and growing numbers of systems for which just-in-time feature releases are a significant competitive advantage, and just-in-time bug fixes are essential to safety or security or continuous operation.”
https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/blog/two-categories-of-architecture-patterns-for-deployability/
“The problem with this trajectory is that no one stopped to ask if it made sense to optimize this style of work in the first place.”
Slack Is the Right Tool for the Wrong Way to Work | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/slack-is-the-right-tool-for-the-wrong-way-to-work
“However, the more I watch and the more I design my own experiments for small microservice applications that I create, the less I feel I understand what Chaos Engineering is.”
What is Chaos Engineering? https://christophermeiklejohn.com/filibuster/2022/03/17/what-is-chaos-engineering.html
“Introducing new technology gives rise to system
and task tailoring by users. But tailoring, once complete, may be invisible. System tailoring becomes part of ‘standard operating procedures’.”
“But is burnout simply the result of insufficient self-care?”
Self-Care is Not the Solution for Burnout | by Justin D. Henderson, PhD | Index https://index.medium.com/self-care-is-not-the-solution-for-burnout-6969bc0a2de6
“You can be that manager by being mindful of your communication habits, actively supporting the development and well-being of your people and remembering that there are stakeholders depending on or that you depend upon in your organization.”
https://www.infoq.com/articles/five-tips-remote-developers/
“Why does the taxonomy matter? It matters, because each quadrant needs to be addressed by a separate testing methodology with separate tools, at a different point in the software engineering lifecycle.”
https://christophermeiklejohn.com/filibuster/2022/03/19/understanding-faults.html
“With that said, the goal of this blog article is to learn how to increase the resilience of your large distributed system by preventing the propagation of failures.”
https://blog.mi.hdm-stuttgart.de/index.php/2022/03/03/cascading-failures-in-large-scale-distributed-systems/
“How do we help others get out of the dark, frustrating place that is the local minima of suckiness that is the expert beginner, past the stars, and into the cloud?”
The local minima of suckiness | ★❤✰ Vicki Boykis ★❤✰ https://vickiboykis.com/2021/08/05/the-local-minima-of-suckiness/
Three-way communication is particularly helpful in these distributed times: https://incident-prevention.com/blog/three-way-communication-for-utility-workers/
