2020-12-15: „The journalism-as-structured-data revolution succeeded in a few places […], but it hasn’t succeeded on a broad scale. Journalists are storytellers accustomed to an old story form, and they’ve had trouble adapting their work to a structured approach.“ https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/12/the-future-of-fact-checking-is-all-about-structured-data/
2020-12-12: “We need a new FrontPage. A FrontPage that uses HTML5 and CSS3 and modern JavaScript and cool PHP stuff. […] In summary, we need a FrontPage that lets the incredibly talented common folk retake the internet with creativity and originality.” @InvisibleUp https://invisibleup.com/articles/33/
2020-11-25: “Pair programming” is not just for developers. We “pair” as project managers, and I don’t ever want to go back to being the sole lead for a medium-sized or large project.
2020-11-17: “Many legacy systems have considerable locked-in value in terms of the data held, the functionality provided and the deep knowledge that surrounds them.” @techradar https://www.techradar.com/news/old-systems-new-world-how-to-make-decisions-about-legacy
2020-11-10: “Across the world, DAM developers go through something like the above, almost as a rite of passage necessary to earn their credentials as a ‚real‘ DAM developer.” I’ve been there… https://blog.blitline.com/is-five-monkey-syndrome-in-your-digital-asset-management-dam-system/
2020-10-30: “Jeder muss die Hausaufgaben gemacht haben, trainiert sein, die Kompetenz haben. Dann kann ich fragen: Hast du Lust, mit mir unterwegs zu sein? Wir gehen an die Grenze und versuchen es zu schaffen.” Starke Podcast-Folge von @antonia_goetsch & @MaierAstrid https://www.manager-magazin.de/hbm/fuehrung/extrembergsteiger-thomas-huber-wenn-du-zu-weit-gehst-kommst-du-nicht-mehr-zurueck-a-a34f710f-4dee-4562-bce8-e6fbe287dd06
2020-10-28: Spannend: „Herr Berger, Ihr Buch trägt den Untertitel „How to Change Anyone’s Mind“, übersetzt also „Wie man die Ansichten jedes Menschen ändert“. Glauben Sie wirklich, dass das möglich ist?“ https://www.spiegel.de/start/jonah-berger-so-koennen-berufseinsteiger-ihre-ideen-durchsetzen-und-die-arbeitswelt-veraendern-a-5cc039c1-b93a-4800-b68d-0e5c433addbc
2020-10-09: „Unlike other engineering disciplines, we do not create our body of knowledge, foster our timeless insights, work to extract the essence from the solutions we found yesterday and make it available to the community of today.“ https://www.ufried.com/blog/continuous_amnesia_issue/
2020-10-08: “Abstractions fail.” It’s wonderful to host apps in a Kubernetes / OpenShift service, not having to worry about servers and load and failover – until a node is overloaded and things break in weird ways (& you don’t have access to cluster logs / metrics…) https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/
2020-10-05: As far as JavaScript is concerned, I’ve been living under a rock for a couple of years. Now I’m happy to discover I don’t need “var that = this;” workarounds anymore: “One reason arrow functions were introduced was to alleviate scope (this) complexities” https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Functions/Arrow_functions
2020-10-01: “a ritual of npm flugelhorn, import clownshoes, build quux, all completely unapologetically […]. Many steps are even omitted, likely because they are “obvious”. Often, you wade through the maze only to find the component doesn’t work anymore, or is not fit for your purpose.” https://lea.verou.me/blog/2020/09/the-failed-promise-of-web-components/