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February 20, 2023

advice you might as well take

YAGNI is one of the easiest to misunderstood ideas behind eXtreme Programming. That's why I think it's a good thing it stays under active discussion. Often people understand it too literally which can create issues. That's why people talking about "PAGNI" (probably are gonna need it) are right. After all, people who also conceptualized YAGNI wrote back then: "This doesn't mean you should avoid building flexibility into your code".

Man beats machine at Go in human victory over AI | Ars Technica

Interesting strategy, shows a fascinating blind spot in the typical AIs used for Go nowadays. It kind of hints to the fact that the neural networks abstract knowledge much less than advertised.

DevLife #5: Microservice Hell - by Daniel Dersch

Interesting explanations of the main drawbacks of microservices. Nothing is magical so you need to know what you loose, in this case this is mostly about increased coordination efforts and latency in feature availability.

How I give formal written feedback — quad

This is a sound advice, it's better if it's a conversation. Some companies push for that some don't. If they don't the proposed plan is a good one.

Self hosting in 2023 - Grifel
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It is indeed getting easier every days to self host a website. Some other services or email are a different story though.