Trunk-Based Development vs. GitHub Flow
“Even after finding that trunk-based development practices contribute to better software delivery performance, some developers who are used to the “GitHub Flow” workflow remain skeptical. This workflow relies heavily on developing with branches and only periodically merging to trunk. We have heard, for example, that branching strategies are effective if development teams don’t maintain branches for too long – and we agree that working on short-lived branches that are merged into trunk at least daily is consistent with commonly accepted continuous integration practices. […] We should note, however, that GitHub Flow is suitable for open source projects whose contributors are not working on a project full time.”
Accelerate by Forsgren, Humble, Kim, et al. 2018
Outsourcing Software Development
“The fact that software delivery performance matters provides a strong argument against outsourcing the development of software that is strategic to your business, and instead bringing this capability into the core of your organization. […] Distinguishing which software is strategic and which isn’t, and managing them appropriately, is of enormous importance.”
Accelerate by Forsgren, Humble, Kim, et al. 2018
Dream teams
“Over two years we conducted 200+ interviews with Googlers (our employees) and looked at more than 250 attributes of 180+ active Google teams. We were pretty confident that we’d find the perfect mix of individual traits and skills necessary for a stellar team — take one Rhodes Scholar, two extroverts, one engineer who rocks at AngularJS, and a PhD. Voila. Dream team assembled, right?
We were dead wrong. Who is on a team matters less than how the team members interact, structure their work, and view their contributions. So much for that magical algorithm.”
https://rework.withgoogle.com/guides/understanding-team-effectiveness/steps/introduction/
Measuring Productivity
Utilization is defined as the amount of an employee’s available time that’s used for productive, billable work, expressed as a percentage. An employee’s utilization rate is a critical metric for organizations to track.
(Source: Google)
Queue Theory in math tells us that as utilization approaches 100%, lead times approach infinity. [Lead Time is “how fast work can be completed”]
(Source: Accelerate by Forsgren, Humble, Kim, et al. 2018)
So, be a good employee and ring the bell soon enough and take some slack time!
Adding is favoured over subtracting in problem solving
Kölner Schuldesaster
Auch dieses Jahr müssen viele Zehnjährige lange Schulwege in Kauf nehmen um ihrer Schulpflicht nachkommen zu können.
Die Schulwege bleiben dabei extrem gefährlich. Durch den tonnenschweren, privaten Individualverkehr kann die Altersgruppe der 10-14 Jährigen sich nicht ungefährdet im städtischen Raum bewegen.
Mitmachen. Bürgerprojekt zur Ermittlung von Luftschadstoffen.
“Das Citizen Science Projekt SMARAGD (Sensoren zur Messung von Aerosolen und reaktiven Gasen und Analyse ihrer Auswirkung auf die Gesundheit) ist ein Gemeinschaftsprojekt des Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), des Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung (HZI) und des Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU), welches gemeinsam mit den Bürgerwissenschaftsgruppen des OK Lab Köln und der Cologne School of AI geplant und durchgeführt wird. Dabei sollen Daten zu Luftschadstoffen im Großraum Köln mit Gesundheitsdaten in Zusammenhang gesetzt werden
Kontaktieren Sie uns per Mail über smaragd@helmholtz-hzi.de, um von unserem Studienteam weitere Informationen zu erhalten und sich für das Projekt registrieren zu lassen.”
Fast alle Kölner können sich um eine Teilnahme bewerben. Man benötigt einen Platz um die Messtation draußen anzubringen und ein funktionierendes WLAN, um Daten übermitteln zu können.
https://www.fz-juelich.de/iek/iek-8/DE/UeberUns/Projekte/SMARAGD/SMARAGD_node.html
Johnny Rotten’s Tour of London
Do we want the whole universe to become one big shopping mall?
It is in the wrong f*** place you idiots… Blow it up!
Hello poor people!
Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers, Labor Board Finds
Who is Listening?
Facebook. Have I been pwned?
“In April 2021, a large data set of over 500 million Facebook users was made freely available for download. Encompassing approximately 20% of Facebook’s subscribers, the data was allegedly obtained by exploiting a vulnerability Facebook advises they rectified in August 2019. The primary value of the data is the association of phone numbers to identities; whilst each record included phone, only 2.5 million contained an email address. Most records contained names and genders with many also including dates of birth, location, relationship status and employer.”
On Cache Invalidation Why is it hard?
HTML Tips
BSI plant Mindeststandard für sichere Videokonferenzen
as LG is completely shutting down mobile branch of their corp…
Petition to LG to open source their phones< https://www.change.org/p/lg-electronics-lg-to-open-source-their-phones-as-they-are-shutting-down-production-for-good
Google Healthcare Consent Management API
Real Time Semantic Code Analysis
AI in software testing
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