Read, Heard and Watched - 2

Read

Articles

• Simple Systems Have Less Downtime.
• Discovery When Working Remotely.
• S3 backups and other strategies for ensuring data durability through ransomware attacks.
• AWS Organizations - Checklist for 2021.

Heard

Podcasts

• Developer Tea: Joel Beasley from Modern CTO
  • Host Jonathan Cutrell, director of technology at PBS, interviews and is interviewed by fellow podcaster Joel Beasley on life and work in general.
  • First advice when anyone asks for guidance: focus on your health. Work on your sleep, eating and exercise above everything else if you want to be a better developer.
• Go Time: Opening up the opinion box
  • Least/most popular ‘unpopular’ opinions collected from the regular show segment.
  • Probably can skip listening to this one unless you have a particular interest in the show or Go. It’s a bit of a filler episode.
• ABC Conversations: The Chloroformist — extraordinary Doctor Joseph Clover
• Open Source Security: Episode 283 – When vulnerability disclosure becomes dangerous
  • What do you do when you find an open database full of sensitive, potentially dangerous Personally Identifiable Information (PII)? If you report it and the company responsible doesn’t do anything, what next? There’s no easy answer as going public may cause more harm than good.
• The Changelog: Leading leaders who lead engineers

Music

• Playback by </body>
  • Hitting me somewhere in those vapor/synth-wave feels.

Watched

TV

• Queen’s Gambit S1E2-3
  • It’s quite entertaining. I had thought it was based in some way on a real person but apparently not.

Movies

• The Omega Man
  • Can’t say I really recommend it.
• Yojimbo
  • Classic samurai film.

Online

• Expectations vs Agreements
  • About 30 minutes on the value of coming to agreements with people rather than dictating expectations.
  • I need this by Friday, get it done. vs I need this by Friday, do you have the resources to make that happen?.
  • Opening a dialogue, or more broadly, communication is key.
  • Empowering people and giving them a sense of control is key.
  • This applies to every relationship in your life, not just those in the workplace.
• The Tale of Tiffany
  • Origins of the name Tiffany.
• System Shock 2 Review
  • I enjoy MandaloreGaming’s deep dive reviews. I particularly enjoyed discovering the overlaps between SS2 and the Thief series.

• Here’s what doesn’t work, in the workplace. Expectations. People do not look forward to living up to expectations. In fact, people rebel against expectations. They don’t like it that you expect things of them. They would rather you agree with them about something.
• Human beings will love to keep an agreement that they coauthored with you.