Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

March 20, 2023

Image Codec Comparison

Interesting benchmark, this seems to point toward AVIF and JPEG-XL as two great codecs for pictures.

I’ve been employed in tech for years, but I’ve almost never worked – Emmanuel Maggiori

OK, not a perfect article, I think there are a couple of blind spots in the reasoning (I doubt all the estimates were as systematically bloated as presented here). Still, it's another interesting account of the problems created by the cargo cult agile. It indeed seems to resonate with the fact that the tech sector is very hype driven. A lot of useless work then ensues.

Why people misuse inheritance | Thoughts, solicited and otherwise

A good point... everybody should know at this point that delegation should be favor. So why do we keep turning to inheritance even in cases we shouldn't? Convenience and writing less code mainly. Unfortunately that leads to bugs more often than not.

Go slow to move fast - Thoughts on software and technical leadership

Technical debt was an interesting metaphor to kickstart the conversation but has been overused. It can still be useful, especially with the proposed approach here to make it intentional and explicit. This can be factored in how to drive the project.