TechChat Tuesdays #29: Rust, Radical Candor, and more
Host Ken Rimple and Co-Host Sujan Kapadia bring this weeks’ dev news to the table.
Show Notes:
Get your ETE 2021 tickets for only $89: an incredible value for speakers like Alan Kay, Kent Beck, Ada Rose Cannon, Jess Kerr, and more: https://2021.phillyemergingtech.com
Linux turns 30, and Chariot is hosting Nithya Ruff, chair at the Linux Foundation, to talk about open source. Register today: https://os.heysummit.com/
Mac utility Homebrew finally gets native Apple Silicon and M1 support: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/mac-utility-homebrew-finally-gets-native-apple-silicon-and-m1-support/
Accused Jersey murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit used by police: https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/04/dna_testing_software/
This reminds Ken of the Annie Dookhan case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Dookhan
Virtually jam with strangers (who are less than 500 miles away): https://sonobus.net/index.html
Stanford opens their iOS/Swift curriculum: https://cs193p.sites.stanford.edu/xcode-12-ios-14-big-sur
How they SRE – A curated collection of publicly available resources on how technology and tech-savvy organizations around the world practice Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): https://github.com/upgundecha/howtheysre
Rust forms its own foundation and Mozilla gives it a warm welcome: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/02/08/mozilla-welcomes-the-rust-foundation/
Speaking of Rust, another plug for ETE: here are some speakers we had on Rust ~2 years ago, as the language was in its nascent. Carol Nichols: https://chariotsolutions.com/screencast/philly-ete-2019-carol-nichols-rust-a-language-for-the-next-40-years/ and Steve Klabnik: https://chariotsolutions.com/screencast/philly-ete-2016-37-rust-production-steve-klabnik/
Is it just an excuse for being a jerk, or is it legit? Ken talks about Radical Candor, a new framework for effective engineering management: https://www.toptal.com/software/radical-candor-framework-engineering-manager-success
Beautify your CLI! Building Rich terminal dashboards: https://www.willmcgugan.com/blog/tech/post/building-rich-terminal-dashboards/
Sujan waxes poetic about data partitioning and analyzes Spotify’s Wrapped 2020, the company’s largest Dataflow job to date: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2021/02/11/how-spotify-optimized-the-largest-dataflow-job-ever-for-wrapped-2020/
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