Monthly Shaarli

All links of one month in a single page.

October, 2021

An unexpected victory: container stacking at the port of Los Angeles
thumbnail

A miracle occurred this week. Everyone I have talked to about it, myself included, is shocked that it happened.

Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux

I did find that a disproportionally big amount of these bugs was reported by players using Linux to play. I started to investigate, and my findings did surprise me.

Are software engineering “best practices” just developer preferences? | floverfelt.org

Software Engineering is really frustrating because there’s basically never a “right” answer and so most decisions come down to “whatever the senior engineer wants.”

The XY Problem

Asking about your attempted solution rather than your actual problem.

Why is everything so hard in a large organization?

There might be a way of doing complex multi-participant tasks that is better than what's being done currently, but the incentives for each participant are not aligned.

Developers: Let distros do their job

Software distributions are often volunteer-run and represent the interests of the users; in a sense they are a kind of union of users.