Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

December 18, 2025

CS Unplugged

Looks like a fun way to introduce the next generation to computer science basics.

So You Want To Manage A Product?. What no one tells you about the role

This is a good introduction to what product management really entails.

The Ten (and a half) Commandments of Visual Thinking

Good advice to get (back) into sketch noting or visual thinking.

Norris Numbers

This is something I've definitely seen indeed. There are clearly a threshold effect in the amount of code you have to manage. Solutions working at smaller amounts don't work anymore a couple of order of magnitudes higher, and vice versa.

On Leadership and Being a Lead
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It's indeed not just about the label. It's more about behaviour.

Victim of Success: Dark Scrum

Was it all going to end up as a management fad? I'd say yes. It's not to say the values and principles in the manifesto are useless... but if something gets successful you'd better have guardrails on how it'll be warped. It didn't happen here.

Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
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Such a nice business model... not. There's really a lack of regulation in this space.

If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system

A nice way to try to grasp the scale of the solar system. We hardly realize the amount of empty space.

Splitting user stories -- the hamburger method
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Interesting method to split stories which are proving difficult to split.

How do graphics drivers work?

Nice little intro of the various components you need for graphics drivers. It's very much geared toward how it's organised on Linux.