Good summary about string formatting in Python. Clearly helps to decide between f-strings and the fomat function.

Very good advises emphasizing empathy and holistic view of products.

Little known but potentially very useful SSH feature.

Interesting idea... Until that article, I didn't fully realize the impact of the Osborne Effect inside of a company and not towards its customers.

Another frontend framework which seems lightweight. Especially nice is the fact that it's built on top of Web Components and that properties are properly reactive.

Excellent series about interview questions to use.

Definitely this... the amount of times I've seen this type of "x years of y" constraints for hiring people. It's completely backwards, someone senior should be able to pick up new technologies quickly. Better focus on the ability to learn and other factors than limiting things to a particular stack.

Definitely agree with this. People are generally not used to this though. That's why one of the things I tell people during interviews is "I got a bunch of questions but there's no good or bad answer to them, they are conversation starters mostly". It's really all about knowing each other better first.

Fascinating research... indeed some spiders have really better cognition than we'd expect.

Excellent advice for managers. Framing the context is always important. Otherwise this can create stress.

Interesting thought experiment which gives clues on the burnout epidemic we can see in some circles. I don't necessarily agree with all the points in there though.

Very very nice post. Explains from the basics how to build Bezier curves and patches but also Splines, B-splines, NURBS and Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces. Talks about curvature, normals, etc. You name it.

Interesting findings about team dynamics. It's actually a good thing that we seem to usually prefer people exhibiting skills + friendly and trustworthy, but that if we can get only one of the two we favor friendly and trustworthy over skills. It's healthy, just skills tend to drag teams down.

The paper is very "cloud focused" but most of the arguments make sense overall. Managing complexity is really the core issue of what we do as engineers... or at least it should be.

Now this one is really nasty...

Definitely contradicts our preconceived ideas regarding labor before the industrial revolution.

Definitely this. We got a bunch of rich people with a very shallow understanding of cyberpunk literature. They're focusing on the gimmicks, missing completely the big picture... all of this to not face they'd be the villains in those stories.

Like it or not but the "manager" label indeed changes interpersonal dynamics.

Funny interesting tiny markup language targeting cooking. Funnily enough I could see myself using this.

Interesting exploration of statistics around marriage (in the US). Some jobs are definitely more staying in their own circles than others.