Monthly Shaarli

All links of one month in a single page.

October, 2021

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

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

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.”

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.

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.

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.